Hudson Companies President David Kramer and Comptroller Scott Stringer. (Getty)
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office has endorsed a newly announced partnership between two city pension funds and Hudson Companies to develop housing for middle-class families.
But the $250 million project’s mix falls short of the affordable housing plans that Stringer and other mayoral hopefuls have campaigned on, proposing rents that housing advocates say misses the mark.
Intended to house the working class, the partnership’s plan allots city pension funds to build homes across the five boroughs and surrounding counties. If similar projects from the past are any indication, about 30 percent of units in New York City buildings will likely be set aside as affordable to those earning the area median income, or AMI. The rest will be for households earning up to 200 percent of AMI.
Why New Yorkâs Mayoral Candidates Are Challenging the Pro-Israel Status Quo
Changes that would have been unthinkable a year ago
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Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang visits Muslim-owned businesses on the first day of Ramadan, in the Jackson Heights area of Queens, New York, April 13, 2021.
The outbreak of violence in Israel and the occupied territories has upended the New York City mayoral election. Toeing a hawkish, pro-Israel line was once the safe choice for New York politicians, but now mainstream Democrats face backlash from progressives for endorsing Israelâs bombing campaign in Gaza.
That reaction, and the ideological and demographic shifts that led to it, may indicate more nuanced stances on Middle East politics from local elected officials in the future. This year, however, the likely winners in the Democratic mayoral primary are sticking with Israelâright or wrong.
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NYC mayoral candidates snipe in first debate, where COVID-19 and public safety take center stage By Adam Brewster, Caroline Linton
May 13, 2021 / 11:13 PM / CBS News NYC mayoral candidates hold first debate
Public safety. Policing. COVID recovery. The top eight candidates vying for the Democratic nomination in New York City s mayoral race faced off in the first debate on Thursday night. Frontrunners Andrew Yang and Eric Adams found themselves taking the most heat, although Adams, for one, got his own digs in.
The winner of the June 22 primary will almost certainly go on to be the heavily Democratic city s next mayor. The candidate will be tasked with helping the city of eight million people recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing major challenges such as rising crime, homelessness, economic inequality and disparities in the public education system.
Stop and frisk hasn’t disappeared
Bill de Blasio’s vocal criticism of the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped vault him to victory in 2013. In a city of a million issues, it became
the issue. Now Maya Wiley – de Blasio’s former counsel, who has many of his allies on her team – is hoping to make it an issue again, twice targeting Eric Adams for defending the tactic in the first official Democratic primary mayoral debate Thursday night. Adams, a retired cop, called stop and frisk “a great tool” in an interview with CBS New York last year and said that the police force under Bloomberg was simply using it wrong. Adams has been saying the same thing for a decade – while also loudly, proudly, criticizing the racist