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The Casanova Residence, a 96-unit affordable housing development on Casanova Street in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, broke ground on Monday, August 3, marking another milestone in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s effort to accelerate housing construction across the borough. The project, developed by The Doe Fund in partnership with

Five people have died and 84 have tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease in an Upper East Side outbreak that began in early July 2026, making it the deadliest Legionella cluster in New York City since the 2015 South Bronx crisis. City health officials now say no new cases have been

Roughly one million apartments in New York City fall under rent stabilization, covering about 44 percent of all rental units across the five boroughs. For first time renters, the system offers protections that market rate leases do not capped annual rent increases, guaranteed lease renewals, and restrictions on eviction but

Smoke from wildfires burning in western Ontario has pushed New York City’s Air Quality Index into the unhealthy zone, prompting city and state officials to extend emergency heat operations and distribute free masks across all five boroughs. The National Weather Service forecasts conditions could worsen through Thursday, potentially making this

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 308-117 on Tuesday to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would make daylight saving time permanent across the country and eliminate the twice-yearly ritual of changing clocks. The measure now heads to the Senate, where its future remains uncertain despite White