Dear New Yorkers,
As Albany lawmakers hammer out a deal to address New York’s sky-high rents, one possible measure to protect tenants has small landlords protesting on the courthouse steps.
“Good cause eviction” has struck a nerve among Chinese homeowners, many of whom have unsuccessfully tried to collect rent on properties they saved and borrowed to buy. Elected officials, especially Republicans, have taken notice, and now some landlords themselves are looking to run for office — and to take on the Democratic Party they blame for their plight.
“The system is so unfair to landlords,” said a home-care attendant whose family rents out their house in Staten Island while they lease an apartment in Brooklyn to be closer to family. “They’d make more small landlords like me lose our life savings on our properties that bleed out money.”
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Some other items of note: - Enforcing the rules for street vendors used to be a job for the NYPD. But a 2021 law changed that, as part of an activist push to decriminalize violations. Now, the Adams administration is tacking toward stricter enforcement by shifting primary responsibility from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to the Department of Sanitation, as of April 1 — and vendors aren’t happy about it.
- First- and second-year lifeguards are getting a permanent raise — and all city pool and beach watchers could get an attendance bonus — as the Parks Department and a new multi-agency task force work to avoid another shortage of critical water safety personnel this summer.
- As New Yorkers mark three years of the pandemic, THE CITY’s MISSING THEM memorial project is partnering with Photoville on a free public art exhibit in the South Bronx and in Elmhurst, Queens. Visit anytime between now and May 31 to learn about the New Yorkers gone too soon, including legendary Queens-born photographer and activist Corky Lee and HIV/AIDS educator Patricia Harriet Jackson who dedicated her life to helping people of color and LGBTQ+ youth in The Bronx.
- See how New York City is doing with our newsroom’s economic recovery tracker.
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