Housing

The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, vetoed by Eric Adams last December, passed Thursday in a narrower form covering about 2,100 buildings. Mayor Mamdani has pledged to sign it.

Researchers found emergency room visits fell in the first ZIP codes where the city guaranteed tenants a lawyer in Housing Court, though not citywide. Visits tied to mental health and substance use rose.

CUNY CARES, which re-enrolled about 1,000 Bronx students in SNAP and helps fight evictions, will expand to Queensborough Community College next year and to all seven CUNY community colleges by 2029.

The number of sheds is down more than 15% in 10 months, City Hall says. Two see-through designs by the firm PAU are on display outside the Buildings Department in Lower Manhattan, and rules to allow six new designs citywide are expected by year's end.

The plan would replace a Brutalist city office building with two towers of about 115 and 78 stories, roughly 1,000 of the homes permanently affordable. New Yorkers can weigh in on what the environmental review should study at Pace University on Oct. 29 or in writing until Nov. 9.

Nicholas Fuelling advertised both bedrooms of a West 47th Street apartment on Facebook Marketplace in August 2025 and kept the deposits. He faces six months in jail and must repay about $50,000. Some victims were left effectively homeless, prosecutors said.

Saturday night's low is forecast near 40 degrees in the city. Heat season started Oct. 1, and building owners must keep apartments at least 62 degrees overnight no matter the outside temperature.

The city approved a plan to slowly lift floors that sagged when two steel columns buckled in July at 235 E. 42nd St., the city's largest office-to-housing conversion. Work is set to begin next week.

Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani cut the ribbon on the first phase of the project on the Christian Cultural Center's campus. When finished, it is planned to hold nearly 2,000 permanently affordable homes.

Spending on street homelessness programs went from $102 million to $368 million in six years, while the number of people sleeping outside kept rising. Outreach workers and business groups say dozens of teams overlap and don't share data.

Newly released renderings show a 10-story building with stores and parking at 32-02 Linden Place. The plan still needs approval from the community board, City Planning and the City Council.

The city has granted more than 8,800 of about 11,000 exemption requests, leaving fewer than 9,000 properties to pay. The mayor says he's confident in the revenue as three lawsuits play out; first bills are due Jan. 1.

The five-story Grand Prospect at 263 Prospect Avenue is wrapping hardscaping four years after the banquet hall was demolished; units are not yet listed.

From Jan. 1, eligible affordable projects in the city's 12 lowest-producing community districts skip a City Council vote. Some members are talking about a lawsuit.

At a Metro IAF accountability assembly in Queens, the mayor also committed to 10 mental-health crisis centers and a sit-down with Commissioner Tisch on safety.