Tenants of 83 and 85 Bowery poured into the streets of Chinatown yesterday afternoon to protest their landlord Joseph Betesh, again, who they say is…
LES Residents at De Blasio Town Hall: Don’t Let High-Rises Push Us Out
Over 300 residents of the Lower East Side and Chinatown gathered in a Bowery gym for Mayor de Blasio’s 27th town hall Wednesday, and we…
De Blasio Vows to Dig In Against Trump and ‘Stand Up For Our People’
Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to fight back against Donald Trump’s harshest and most regressive plans this morning at a speech in the East Village.…
Mayor Announces New LES Senior Housing Amid Rivington House Controversy
As members of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration faced questions regarding the Rivington House debacle in a contentious City Council hearing this afternoon, de Blasio’s…
With City’s Offer Expired, Sun Might Be Setting on Bushwick Inlet Park
After 60 days on the table, the city’s offer to pay the former CitiStorage site’s owner $100 million for the final parcel of the long-promised…
Rent Freeze Leaves Some Tenants and Owners Feeling Left Out in the Cold
The Rent Guidelines Board has voted to freeze the rents on rent-stabilized apartments that are up for a one-year lease renewal between October 1, 2016 and…
Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk
In 2013 Mayor Bill De Blasio was voted into office with pledges to reign in police violence and stop-and-frisk policing targeted at blacks and latinos. (Remember that…
Chinatown Protesters Call Mayor’s Housing Plan ‘Nothing But a Big Scam’
It was freezing outside, but the 60-odd Chinatown community activists gathered in front of Gracie Mansion yesterday were fired up. In English, Spanish and Chinese, they…
Embittered By Corruption and Displacement, LES Neighbors Coalition Demands to See the Mayor
At an emotional Lower East Side town hall meeting on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of concerned residents, a number of small business owners, and representatives of…
This Anti-Garbage Meeting in Bushwick Got Pretty Steamy
“You really have to be quick crossing the street, or they’ll totally run you down,” a friend of mine laughed. “I’m actually really scared that…