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Will the Queens special election be a 2013 replay? When supporters of ranked-choice voting make their case for why the new voting system is good for Black and Latino New Yorkers, they’ll often point to a specific race: the February 2013 special election in City Council District 31 in Queens. There, a white, Orthodox Jewish candidate named Pesach Osina came within 79 votes – less than 1 percentage point – of winning a Southeast Queens district that – as of the 2010 census – was 68% Black, 16% Hispanic and just 11% white. Besides Osina, the other seven candidates on the ballot, i...

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By Forum Staff Housing Rights Initiative, a housing watchdog group, recently uncovered that landlords Joseph Brunner and Abe Mandel, along with David Lubinitsky, and Heatherwood have been abusing the 421a tax benefit program. 421a is a tax benefit program that landlords receive as-of-right for new construction of multi-family rental housing. As a condition of the benefit, most landlords are required to rent-stabilize 100 percent of their units. As of January, the landlords, collectively, have received over $20 million in 421a tax credits across 427 units in three buildings, and illegally over...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday ordered a sweeping review of the nonprofit organizations that run the city’s $2 billion network of homeless shelters after allegations emerged that the chief executive of a major operator had used his power to sexually abuse women and enrich himself and his family.

NYPD, oversight agency sign 'historic' agreement on discipline, transparency By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  NYPD, Civilian Complaint Review Board sign ‘historic’ agreement The NYPD and the CCRB came to an agreement Thursday aimed at making the NYPD and its disciplinary process more transparent. NEW YORK - A new agreement signed Thursday is aimed at making the NYPD and its disciplinary process more transparent as part of an effort to improve trust between the department and the communities they serve. The agreement, signed between the NYPD and the Civilian Complaint Review Board, establishe...