The FARE Act returned $15,000 to tenants who paid illegal brokers' fees and fined agents about $27,000 in penalties during the first year it was in effect.
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/08/b...
Samantha Maldonado
The FARE Act marked a sea change for New York City apartment hunters.
really great @lillysabs.bsky.social story today about a strange a magical place in Coney Island ... read it! (and then take a trip there this summer)
There are few remaining artifacts from the increasingly distant disco era. A bumper car joint in Coney Island with a bone-rattling sound system is one of them.
Love this behind-the-scenes look at the surprise at the end of 'Romeo and Juliet' for Shakespeare in the Park!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
NYC repping the blue and orange dates back to 1625 and our Dutch roots, when the city was first colonized and known as New Amsterdam.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026...
This year’s Shakespeare in the Park production puts the star-crossed lovers on the U.S.-Mexico border. And there’s another twist—each performance ends with a real-life wedding.
She got a text when City of Yes passed: “You now have your ADU!” She was elated.
Now, she feels exploited by the broken promise: "It wouldn’t have bothered me so much if they didn’t personally leverage me in their communications and in their campaign."
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/01/a...
The new tally constitutes about 6% of the city’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments.
A photog covering Delaney Hall had to ditch her camera bag with $10K of gear an injury. The bag was gone when a friend went to get it, but an airtag showed the bag was at the house of a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutors office, prosecutors now say:
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/o...
Samantha Maldonado
The Adams administration promised Sadé Singh she would be able to build a granny flat, or ADU, on her Queens property under new development rules. She’s still waiting.
I’ve been really moved by how KAT’s public expression of grief has moved people during the Finals
really poignant story today on that theme:
An AirTagged keychain led investigators to $10,000 in missing camera equipment at the home of a sergeant assigned to the Essex County Prosecutor’s office after clashes at a Newark ICE detention facili...
