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• Just in time for Summer Open Streets, NYC DOT unveils permanent safety upgrades on Decatur Avenue

  16-07-2026 22:21 via bxtimes.com
  
  The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) recently completed a roadway safety project at Decatur Avenue between East 194th and 195th Streets, just in time for summer activities.The Kingsbridge Heights project, developed with community input, included a mid-block concrete curb extension with raised crosswalk and new crossing signage, as well as green plants and flowers. Painted curb extensions were installed to slow traffic and shorten the crossing distances for pedestrians, and th
  
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• Tracey Towers residents demand more oversight of Mitchell-Lama housing after proposed 31% rent hike

  16-07-2026 21:39 via bxtimes.com
  
  Tracey Towers tenants urged City Council members Wednesday to strengthen oversight of Mitchell-Lama housing after their Bronx development was hit with a proposed 30.58% rent increase that residents say follows years of deteriorating conditions and deferred maintenance.The testimony came during a City Council oversight hearing examining the affordability of the Mitchell-Lama program and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development's role in monitoring the financial health of the city's
  
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• Mamdani raises $301K in a month for 2029 reelection, opts out of NYC matching-funds program

  16-07-2026 21:15 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised about $301,000 during the opening month of his 2029 reelection campaign and has decided not to participate in New York City’s public matching-funds program — allowing him to accept larger donations and spend without the limits imposed on participating candidates.Mamdani’s first campaign finance filing of the election cycle lists 5,874 contributors, with an average contribution of $52, according to the city's Campaign Finance Board.The campaign report
  
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• Air quality alert: NYC handing out free KN95 masks as smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches unhealthy levels

  16-07-2026 17:25 via amny.com
  
  Nope, that's not your usual summer haze — that's Canada's wildfire smoke still lingering.New York City is still under an Air Quality Advisory due to Canadian wildfire smoke, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) reaching Level Red - Unhealthy (between 151-200) on Thursday morning. The advisory is due to continue through 11:59 p.m. tonight.Due to the air quality issues, the city is handing out free KN95 masks at select locations throughout the Five Boroughs, including at over 200 libraries, all
  
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• DJ shot to death in Bronx neighborhood with surge of murders this year

  16-07-2026 17:10 via amny.com
  
  Detectives in the Bronx are investigating the death of a DJ who was fatally shot near a nightclub early on Thursday morning in an area where murder rates have surged this year.Officers from the 46th Precinct were called to a report of an assault in front 2362 Jerome Ave., the M Lounge Restaurant, at around 4:26 a.m. on July 16.When they arrived at the scene, officers found a 29-year-old man lying on the street with a gunshot wound to his head. EMS pronounced the victim dead at the location.
  
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• Mamdani unveils 23 NYC rental proposals, including credit-check reforms, tenant unions and tiny elevators

  16-07-2026 06:01 via amny.com
  
  Tiny elevators in walk-ups. Formal recognition for tenant unions. A rethink of credit checks and the widely used requirement that apartment seekers earn 40 times the monthly rent.Those are among 23 proposals in a new roadmap released Thursday by the Mamdani administration, aimed at changing how New York City renters find apartments, report unsafe conditions, and confront landlords who fail to make repairs.The 67-page “Rental Ripoff Recap” grew out of five boroughwide hearings Mayor Z
  
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• Mamdani lays out 23 proposals to reshape renting in NYC

  16-07-2026 06:01 via amny.com
  
  Tiny elevators in walk-ups. Formal recognition for tenant unions. A rethink of credit checks and the widely used requirement that apartment seekers earn 40 times the monthly rent.Those are among 23 proposals in a new roadmap released Thursday by the Mamdani administration, aimed at changing how New York City renters find apartments, report unsafe conditions, and confront landlords who fail to make repairs.The 67-page “Rental Ripoff Recap” grew out of five boroughwide hearings held be
  
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• New federal Rikers remediation manager issues first report with deadlines for improving ‘unconstitutional’ jail

  16-07-2026 00:30 via amny.com
  
  The court-appointed federal oversight official tasked with fixing the failings of New York City’s infamous Rikers Island jail complex issued his first report on Tuesday, detailing a month-by-month plan to resolve the safety and legal issues identified by a landmark 2015 lawsuit.Nicholas Deml, appointed in January by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to help restructure Rikers to ensure its conditions comply with the U.S. Constitution, wrote in his first report that a lot sti
  
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