The City Council has a new website & leaflets blasting the mayor's housing ballot questions as giveaways to developers.

Some ethics experts say they comes dangerously close to electioneering. A council member called them a "waste of taxpayer dollars"

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the efforts by SL Green, Caesars Palace and Roc Nation to woo Manhattan Plaza tenants have included multiple visits by Alicia Keys, a Roc Nation artist who grew up in the complex.

The beneficiaries of PAC money are an odd bunch: archrivals Airbnb and the hotel union HTC are backing the same Queens candidate. And no council candidate is getting more money than Darlene Mealy, who’s been accused of rarely showing up to her job.
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new, long-awaited data on NYC's 485x housing tax break validates some early fears: zero projects proposed with 100+ units and only 2 in Lower Manhattan, where wage rules are higher.

Developers have signaled interest in 118 total projects worth 2,600 units:
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interestingly Uber's support for Yanna Henriquez in Queens' District 21 pits them against the one other big-money group involved in that race: REBNY, whose PAC is backing rival candidate Shanel Thomas-Henry
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here's the new Sanitation Department timeline, shared ahead of a City Council hearing today where advocates will push the city for quicker action on commercial waste zones to improve safety and cut emissions.
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landlords or brokers who illegally charge fees to tenants will be fined $750 once @chiosse.bsky.social's FARE Act takes effect in June, per these rules the city proposed yesterday. (That's assuming REBNY's lawsuit doesn't succeed in blocking the law.)

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Shortly after I contacted the Gaming Commission about this hangup last week, they finally published a webpage where each of these projects' environmental review documents will be posted. (The timing was coincidental, the commission said.)
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The state is handling these projects' reviews because they had no local zoning issues to resolve — a leg up that's now become a possible disadvantage.
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With federal threats likely to force policymakers to drop big-ticket proposals in favor of smaller-scale policy ideas, @nycfuture.bsky.social seems poised to grow its influence further.

feat. Maria Torres-Springer in one of her first post-City Hall interviews:
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to answer 1 question: yes, the money was in a Citibank account controlled by NYC, the comptroller's office told me. (The keeps its deposits in 26 different banks.)
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The Adams administration is celebrating a renovation of 1 and 2 United Nations Plaza, saying it'll create jobs.

But the city was previously supposed to sell those buildings & use the money for a Greenway expansion under a failed Bloomberg-era deal:
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City of Yes passed the council committees today. Here's a map showing parts of NYC where parking mandates will be eliminated (red), "significantly" reduced (yellow), & preserved (blue). And here's a Council graphic showing how parking mandates won't apply to some housing types most affected by them.