Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent his first in-person appearance at his “rental ripoff” hearings appealing to public housing tenants after he was heckled and previously accused of ignoring their plights.
Squatters took up illegal residence in hundreds of empty NYCHA apartments in recent years, as the units waited for often ...
Vacant NYCHA apartments rose to 6,740 in May 2025 from approximately 2,840 in January 2022. Some of the vacant apartments, without adequate security measures, create opportunities for illegal ...