With Tenants Planning Strikes, Calls for a Rent Break Grow Louder
Today, April 1, rent comes due for most of New York State’s more than 3.3 million tenant households —…
The Indypendent
Steven Wishnia
Michael Bloomberg: How to Break a Union
One of the most telling episodes of Michael Bloomberg’s 12 years as mayor is one of the least known:…
NY Pot Reform Gains New Support in Albany, But Will It Go Up in Smoke Again This Year?
Last year, New York State legalizing marijuana was considered an almost-sure thing. In December 2018, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried, the…
Ian Brennan Knocks Pop Stars Off Their Pedestal With his New Book
Ian Brennan’s Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth is a polemic against the domination of the world’s ears…
Vasily Grossman’s epic novel of the Battle of Stalingrad published in U.S. for first time.
California Tenants Win Partial Victory
With the cost of housing soaring, much remains to be done.
‘Fighting Forward’ with Cooperative Power in the Bronx
The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative’s headquarters are on a side street off Fordham Road, the borough’s main shopping strip.…
Meet the Tenants Fighting Barberry Rose Management, Landlord From Hell
New York State passed laws in June that dramatically strengthened its rent regulations, but tenants in Inwood are still…
A Real Deal: How New Yorkers Banded Together and Cracked the Landlord Lobby
In June, New York State enacted the most significant strengthening of tenant protections in 45 years. It came about…
Take Down the Landlords: Will This Be the Year Tenants Win Sweeping Rent Law Reforms?
For more than 20 years, the Republican majority in the New York State Senate was the main obstacle to…