🌱 NYC Developers Reap $1.6M For Housing Lies: DA + Gambling In Midtown

Hello, friends! It's me, Dashiell Allen, your host of the New York City Daily — here to tell you everything that's fit to print across the city. Today you'll read about:

• 🏠 Six NYC developers reaped the benefits of a tax break meant for affordable housing.
• 🏚 There's over 61,000 vacant rent-stabilized apartments in New York City, an internal memo shows.
• 🎲 Dueling proposals for a casino license in Times Square and Hudson Yards.

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Here are the top five stories in New York City today:

1. Six New York City developers reaped $1.6 million worth of benefits from a tax break intended for subsidized affordable apartments, only to charge exorbitant rents in the same units, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced yesterday. (New York City Patch)
2. With more than 200 people having died in traffic accidents so far this year, a new study found that City Council districts where the majority of residents are Black have a 39 percent higher rate of traffic injuries than the rest of the city. The southeast Bronx has the highest rate of traffic fatalities, despite 70 percent of residents not owning cars, according to the study. (New York City Patch)
3. Activists and public housing residents across the city are volunteering their time and, in some cases, their own apartments, to support migrants arriving to NYC from Texas. They say the items most in need right now are coats, hygiene products and shoes. (Gothamist)

• Meanwhile, the new so-called "tent-city" on Randall's Island, which opened on Wednesday, was briefly identified on Google Maps as "Adams Tent City." (New York City Patch)

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Today in New York City:

• One Man Poe - Days Of The Dead Festival - Under St. Marks Theater (3 p.m.)
• New York State Foster and Adoption Organization Hosting Off Broadway Community Storytelling Event (6:30 p.m.)
• Cabaret: A Night with the Dead - Days of The Dead Festival (7 p.m.)
• Feminist Giant & The Strand Present: Elias Jahshan + Mona Eltahawy (7 p.m.)
• Lover Boyz Stand-Up Comedy (7 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• A 39-year-old man was found dead with a head wound on Monday after a possible assault in a Yorkville apartment building, police said. (New York City Patch)
• More than 100 firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze in a Washington Heights apartment building on Tuesday night. (New York City Patch)
• A Queens man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the murder of a World War I veteran that took place 46 years ago. He's likely to spend 20 years in prison. (Gothamist)

From my notebook:

• Supporters and opponents of Innovation QNS, a massive development proposal in Astoria, Queens, faced each other at an hours-long City Council hearing on Wednesday. The development would build 40 percent affordable housing, although only 25 percent of that total is currently guaranteed. (New York City Patch)
• Meet the New Yorker living in a 96-square-foot apartment without a bathroom or kitchen on the Lower East Side. (CNBC Make It via Youtube)
• Harlem's iconic Apollo Theater is getting its first major renovation in its 100-year history starting in Spring 2024. (New York City Patch)
• The MTA is required to hire minority-and-women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) vendors. Now it wants the federal government to allow it to award contracts to more MWBE owned by millionaires. (AMNY)
• Hunter College students are concerned that the construction of a new life sciences campus announced earlier this week could mean the end of affordable dorms currently at the same location. (City & State NY)

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