In an uncharacteristic bout of harmony, Mayor Mamdani and President Trump have put Sunnyside Yards atop their agendas, thrusting Queens’ most ambitious housing plan—12,000 new homes atop an active rail yard—into rare bipartisan daylight. As New York…
If a revived federal rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, stipulating that only U.S. citizens may occupy public or subsidized housing, takes effect, New York would bear the brunt: at least 3,000 households—mostly “mixed-status” families with American-citizen children—could lose homes, a figure even HUD admits is likely conservative. As New Yorkers know, housing math rarely ends with tidy outcomes.
Operation Epic Fury has left Iran’s leadership scattered and its military in tatters, putting the United States and Israel in the starring roles of yet another costly, open-ended showdown—this time against a nation bigger and badder than their last regional conquests. President Trump’s $900-million-a-day gambit may have dented missiles but not Iranian resolve, inflaming nationalism and offering ample work for future historians and, presumably, Pentagon accountants.
Mount Sinai’s physicians in New York fell out of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s network in January over contract friction, briefly returning before talks stalled again—each side now blames the other. With hospital groups charging up to six times Medicare’s rates, patients can only watch these titans clash and hope their own financial health recovers before the next open enrollment season limps into view.
As budget wrangling intensifies in Albany, both chambers are set to pitch tax hikes aimed at millionaires and corporations, echoing proposals by Mayor Zohran Mamdani but with gentler tweaks. Governor Kathy Hochul, facing an April 1 deadline and re-election math, coolly insists she’s unruffled—though 54% of New Yorkers reportedly support the hikes, so perhaps her poker face warrants hazard pay.
Eggs, meat and dairy have led the parade of rising supermarket prices in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, pinching household budgets beyond the headline inflation rate. The Department of Agriculture blames everything from pricy fuel to twitchy supply chains, while personal finance sages urge shopping lists and meal planning. Aisle navigation now demands strategy, and the discount section suddenly feels rather well attended.
Prosecutors charged Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, Pennsylvania teens, with tossing TATP-laced bombs near an anti-Muslim protest outside Gracie Mansion; authorities say both declared ISIS support and hoped for Boston-level carnage. Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the rally’s bigotry and the violence but stopped just short of damning radical Islam directly—proving, once again, that precision in language can be more volatile than any device.
Donald Trump’s return to the White House kicked off a flurry of executive orders targeting American universities, from shuttering D.E.I. programs to freezing eye-watering research grants at Johns Hopkins, Brown, and Princeton. Campus leaders, blindsided by sudden loss of nearly two billion dollars in funding, now discover that “eternal” conservative grumbling has at last graduated—summa cum laude—from mere rhetoric to existential threat.
The New York City Council dusted off the cobwebs of municipal foreclosure with the proposed SAFER Homes Act, aiming to wrest chronically neglected buildings from recalcitrant landlords while sidestepping the collateral damage of past efforts. If passed, Pierina Ana Sanchez’s bill would sharply narrow the city’s foreclosure net, target only the worst offenders and—miraculously—promise fairer process than prior housing crackdowns managed, at least on paper.
