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A bankruptcy court judge approved the sale of a troubled portfolio of rent stabilized units to Summit Properties after their bank made additional funds available for repairs. Tenants and Mayor Mamdani had pushed to delay the sale or find a buyer who would preserve the affordable housing.

Mamdani touring an apartment at a Brooklyn building previously owned ...


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“By centering broader, more accessible forms of participation and tying engagement to real outcomes, the city has an opportunity to align civic conversation with civic reality.”

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announcing the Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement (OME) on Friday, January 2, 2026. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)


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“What was so powerful about the rent freeze campaign is that we reached scale in New York City,” said Sumathy Kumar, the new director for Housing Justice for All and its organizing arm, the New York State Tenant Bloc. “We’re going to build off of that to keep tenant power at the top of people’s minds.”

Sumathy Kumar, a veteran organizer for Housing Justice...


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“It is time to exploit the ‘City of Yes’ zoning changes and reclaim the 2,500 acres currently dedicated to a sport that is effectively dead as an urban pastime.”

The golf course at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, pictured here shortly after it was constructed in 2013. (Spencer T Tucker/NYC Mayor’s Office)


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“It’s inviting people into community and it’s breaking stigma,” said Meg Pipe of Venture House, which manages four clubhouses—free, public spaces where adults with severe mental illness can take part in programs and connect with others—in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.

One of Venture House’s menta...


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