landlords

Zohran Mamdani‘s war on negligent landlords is heating up. A few weeks back, the newly elected mayor launched his “Rental Ripoff” hearings to provide a forum for aggrieved tenants to air their most traumatic experiences as renters and direct them towards the appropriate city officials. But he isn’t waiting for the dust to settle to…

In the two years since a 45-acre chunk of North Brooklyn was declared a Superfund site, EPA inspectors have been knocking on doors in Greenpoint and East Williamsburg. Their goal is to determine whether the 1,000 properties built over the Meeker Avenue Plume—a pretty massive pollution site that may be spewing poisonous vapors into the…