The buildings commissioner took nine months to submit financial and ethics disclosure forms and his review was still underway when he resigned. He’s since been indicted on multiple bribery charges.
Greg B. Smith
Greg is a reporter at THE CITY with a special focus on New York City’s housing developments and the city’s housing crisis.
Posted inShelters
$2.1 Billion in Migrant-Related Contracts Sidestep Oversight, Despite Some Companies’ Checkered Records
Medrite and Aron Security got $450 million to staff more than a dozen shelters under a shroud of secrecy. Even the city comptroller and Council are struggling to find out more as workers and residents clash.
Posted inCity Hall
Ex-Buildings Commissioner Indicted on Bribery Charges After Allegedly Trading Favors
Adams appointee Eric Ulrich pocketed $150,000 from associates seeking city actions, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg charged.
Posted inNYCHA
Housing Agency Ignores Law Requiring Public Disclosure of NYCHA Code Violations
Since January, state law has required the city to detail public housing problems in its online portal. That’s not happening.
Posted inAffordable Housing, Civil Court, Eric Adams, Law Department
Adams Team in Settlement Talks on Affordable Housing Segregation Suit
Resolution of the long-pending legal case challenging ‘community preference’ set-asides could reframe which applicants get affordable housing — including a relative of the judge hearing the case.
Posted inEvictions
NYCHA Sends Eviction Notices to Tenants Who Stopped Paying Rent
Facing a half-billion dollars in rent arrears, the cash-strapped public housing agency has sent 1,250 notices so far.
Posted inConstruction, Courts, Department of Investigation
Fake Safety Log Papered Over Construction Worker’s Life-Altering Injury, Suit Alleges
City Department of Investigation probing a supervisor’s allegation that her signature was forged on a contractor’s document filed to show safety procedures got followed.
Posted inConstruction
Engineers Warned Landmarks Commission Salvaging a Synagogue Would Be Dangerous. Then a Worker Got Crushed to Death.
A fatal collapse at burned-out Beth Hamedrash happened after the city’s preservation panel forced rebuilding, over its own expert’s objections.
Posted inMigrant Crisis
Asylum-Seekers in City Shelters to Get 60-Day Notices to Find New Housing, Adams Says
“We have no more room in the city,” the mayor said. Meanwhile, the city appeared to turn down the heat in its quest to waive the guaranteed “right to shelter.”
Posted inNYCHA
Dramatic Demolition Plan Arrives Alongside Big Spike in NYCHA’s Cost Estimate for Fixes
Estimates to replace or upgrade all public housing developments jumps from $45 billion to $78 billion even as the number of apartments drops from 176,000 to 161,000.