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Eric Adams is out of City Hall, but he is not exactly retiring from New York’s housing fight. In a new interview, the former mayor lays out a post-office career advising companies and governments on infrastructure, energy and construction technology while taking pointed shots at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s approach to housing. The message is familiar: build more, keep investors interested, and do not treat real estate like the villain in New York’s affordability saga.
Mamdani stands by pied-à-terre rollout despite backlash
I have spent my career responding to emergencies, and I evaluate every risk the same way: against the evidence. So when I hear the claims circulating about battery storage in New York, including on Staten Island, I weigh them the way I weigh any fire risk. One claim now circulating...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has published a searchable database of Big Apple properties that could fall under the state’s new pied-à-terre tax , effectively doxxing thousands of wealthy New Yorkers. The city’s Department of Finance uploaded the comprehensive list – which purports to cover all unoccupied, non-primary residences in the five boroughs worth north of $1 million – including the full names and addresses of every property owner. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new tax on luxury second homes in a viral video outside Ken Griffin’s penthouse in April. Mayor Mamdani/X City Hall published a database of the wealthy New Yorkers whose properties fall under the new tax. Mayor Mamdani/X A shocking number of wealthy NYC renters live in stabilized units The move follows a widely panned X post by the mayor in which he put wealthy residents on notice to “check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs, because you’ve got mail,” a warning that notification letters were on their way. “The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That’s only possible when we all pay our fair share,” Mamdani wrote Thursday. NYC stores illegally selling THC drinks as
Politics is moving fast these days. The Real Deal’s new Policy Pro platform is here to help you navigate the ever-changing world of policies, regulations and legislation ruling real estate. Launched in March, Policy Pro has already been the first place to report some of the biggest policy shifts in the New York housing world.
Jericho-based 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. will pay $375,000 and provide refunds to eligible customers under a New York settlement involving automatically renewing subscriptions. New York Attorney General […] The post Jericho-Based 1-800-Flowers to Pay $375K, Refund Customers Over Auto-Renewals first appeared on SciFisland.com .
Liberty Mutual and nine affiliated insurers are suing a network of New York clinics over an alleged $1.5 million no-fault billing scheme. The complaint was filed on July 23, 2026, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. According to the filing, Liberty Mutual is seeking to recover more than $743,000 it says it already paid on the disputed claims, along with a court declaration that it owes nothing on more than $500,000 in claims still pending.
Their goose isn’t cooked yet! New York’s foie gras farmers are making one last stand against the Big Apple’s ban on the French delicacy — taking their fight to court once again. Lawyers for La Belle Farm and Hudson Valley Foie Gras will be filing a new plea to the New York State Court of Appeals on Monday in a bid to stop the 2019 City Council ban on foie gras, which is made from deliberately enlarged duck and goose liver, which critics say is cruel process. The foie gras ban in NYC has yet to take effect and upstate farmers are hoping to save their feathers with another appeal. Boston Globe via Getty Images “We’re fighting to protect our family, our employees, and our way of life,” Sergio Saravia, whose family has operated La Belle Farm in Ferndale, N.Y., for nearly 30 years, told The Post. Depression-era Little Debbie snack that built a family-run bakery still has Americans hooked Foie gras distributors warned that losing access to the traditional dish holds deeper significance. “It’s a shame for the liberties, gastronomy in general, and quality of life,” said Ariane Daguin, daughter of famous French chef Andre Daguin. She co-founded and
With another stretch of summer heat pushing air conditioners into overdrive, environmentalists are questioning whether New York’s electrical systems can withstand a drastically warming climate. The concern goes beyond keeping the lights on. Electricity powers hospitals, subways, and drinking water and wastewater plants alike. Environmentalists say the July 4...
The New York Power Authority and New York Transco, co-developers of Propel NY Energy, have finalized the proposed routing of their planned underground transmission lines and hired contractors for pre-construction activities. Residents in affected areas continue to oppose the roughly 90-mile project, set to run across Nassau County into Westchester.
Most Fidelis Care members no longer have in-network access to Northwell Health hospitals and physicians after the two organizations failed to reach a new contract. The mid-year coverage drop began on Thursday, July 16, after Northwell and Fidelis remained at an impasse over reimbursement rates. Northwell said that Fidelis owes...
Three months after Tulsa’s Williams Cos. received approval from the state of New Jersey to build a controversial natural gas pipeline to carry gas from Pennsylvania to New York City and Long Island, an environmental group has filed suit against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It is...
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses and private nonprofit organizations in New York of the Aug. 14 deadline to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans to offset economic losses caused by the Red Hook Five-Alarm Fire occurring Sept. 17, 2025, according to a July 22 announcement. The...
Andrew Cuomo’s warning about New York’s future is not simply about people packing their bags...
Day one, the bin store sets its prices. Day two, everything gets cheaper. By the end of the week, the same item that cost several dollars on Monday costs exactly one. New York has a few stores running this system, and the shoppers who figured it out first have been very selective about who they tell.
The Mamdani administration was able to dig itself out of a major cash flow crisis thanks to an unanticipated billion-dollar windfall from Wall Street last month — and by delaying payments to a health care trust fund for retired city workers, according to a new analysis by City Comptroller Mark Levine.
Hochul’s Bold Hell’s Kitchen Plan Would Add 1,127 Homes. The proposal would replace an Intrepid Museum parking lot with housing, affordable ownership opportunities, public space and a new STEM education center. Governor Kathy Hochul’s Hell’s Kitchen housing development proposal would turn a state-owned Manhattan parking lot into 1,127...
She’s trying to have it both ways. Gov. Kathy Hochul boasted Wednesday that she’s not on board with Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “tax the rich” crusade — even as her new tax on luxury second homes is driving the well-to-do away. The Democratic governor said she’s not squeezing millionaires and billionaires for revenue, and claimed that the new “pied-a-terre” tax she pushed through wasn’t speeding up the ongoing exodus of New Yorkers fleeing to cheaper states. Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed she’s against the “tax the rich” crusade that’s a rallying cry for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his socialist cronies — even though she did push through a new tax on luxury second homes in the city. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post “We should not be raising taxes on high-net-worth individuals,” Hochul told FOX5’s “Good Day New York” on Wednesday. “We should not be raising taxes on the companies that are creating the jobs and generating the revenue that helps us pay for the services that people in New York City come to rely on.” The “pied-a-terre” tax hits the owners of non-primary residences in the five boroughs with an annual tax ranging from 4% to 6.5%, targeting condos and co-ops
New York’s gas stove ban is burning developers! Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman put the heat on Gov. Kathy Hochul Wednesday— slamming a state law banning natural gas as a “green energy scam” that’s thwarting construction and real estate development. “We are ruining our economic development in this state,” Blakeman said at a press conference in Brooklyn. “We are creating the housing shortage under the lack of leadership of Kathy Hochul, with the acquiescence of [Mayor] Zohran Mamdani. Bruce Blakeman called the natural gas ban “a national embarrassment.” Gregory P. Mango for NY Post “It’s costing residents of New York State billions of dollars,” he added. Blakeman rallied against the aggressive environmental law, which bans installing gas stoves and heating in newly built homes, at a construction site in Carroll Gardens that he said was stalled out by the law. Trump skewers Hochul’s ban of data centers in NY: ‘Terrible decision’ The press conference, attended by real estate leaders and elected officials, came after a federal appeals court upheld the ban two weeks ago. Blakeman called the gas ban — which applies to new buildings up to seven stories tall beginning this year, and taller buildings by 2029 — “a
Bruce Blakeman slams Hochul’s gas stove ban
