The City Reporter

05/14/2026

With the Long Island Rail Road on the brink of its first strike in more than 30 years, Gov. Kathy Hochul warned Wednesday that the MTA and riders on the country’s largest commuter railroad “have to be ready for whatever happens.”

Negotiations are ongoing in advance of the 12:01 a.m. Saturday strike date that could leave close to 300,000 riders.

05/13/2026

A month before the first World Cup soccer match takes place at Met Life Stadium across the Hudson River, only 25% of the available rooms in New York City hotels have been booked for the six weeks when matches will be held.

FIFA predicted the New York area would take in $3 billion from the World Cup. But some official estimates say the city could lose money on the world’s biggest sporting event.

05/13/2026

The mayor’s use of one-time cash infusions sets the table for a renewed fight over taxing the wealthy next year.

The mayor’s use of one-time cash infusions sets the table for a renewed fight over taxing the wealthy next year.

05/13/2026

Demolition isn’t so clear cut under New York’s Good Cause legislation.

The gray area is one of the few reasons a landlord can evict rent-paying tenants in unregulated apartments under the 2024 tenant protections law.

‘Good Cause’ tenant protections enacted in 2024 left a big opening for property owners to not renew leases. But do apartment renovations count as demolition?

05/12/2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first executive budget proposal pulls off what seems to be a fiscal miracle by closing what in December was projected to be a huge $12 billion budget gap without raising property taxes, dipping into reserves or cutting services.

The mayor’s use of one-time cash infusions sets the table for a renewed fight over taxing the wealthy next year.

05/12/2026

Facing a budget gap, the Mamdani administration is fighting a court battle against laws that expand the CityFHEPS rental voucher.

05/12/2026

The city housing department has repeatedly sued the owners of a Manhattan building where three people died in a blaze last week, alleging “immediately hazardous” conditions at properties in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.

05/12/2026

Councilmember Vickie Paladino and the City Council settled their ethics feud over her anti-Muslim social media posts.

The Queens Republican agreed to delete her tweets and remove any mention of her job on her personal accounts.

The Queens Republican had sued after colleagues slapped her with ethics charges.

05/12/2026

The city’s Correction Department is set to renew a multimillion-dollar contract with a prison telecom giant that’s bragged of using recordings of detainees’ private phone calls to train its artificial intelligence model.

Advocates warn the Securus system could funnel intimate detainee call details into the company’s AI tools.

05/12/2026

FIFA predicted the New York area would take in $3 billion from the World Cup. But some official estimates say the city could lose money on the world’s biggest sporting event.

05/11/2026

Councilmember Vickie Paladino and the City Council settled their ethics feud over her anti-Muslim social media posts, with the Queens Republican agreeing to delete her tweets and remove any mention of her job on her personal accounts.

The Queens Republican had sued after colleagues slapped her with ethics charges.