Cindy Rodriguez

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Thousands of tenants at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village will continue to pay lower rents at least until June.

The rent reduction is part of ongoing settlement talks between Tishman Speyer and a group of tenants who sued the developer for illegally raising rents. Last ...

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The State of New York Mortgage Agency says it could potentially insure dozens of mortgages so failed condo projects can convert to apartment rentals. As WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports, that has kept one project in Brooklyn from blighting a neighborhood.

REPORTER: A144 unit building in Bushwick ...

A class action lawsuit accuses the NYPD of falsely arresting public housing residents and their visitors for trespassing.

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A class action lawsuit accuses the NYPD of falsely arresting public housing residents and their visitors for trespassing.

The lawsuit says William Turner, a 39-year-old African-American, was visiting a friend at the Drew Hamilton Houses in Harlem when he was arrested for trespassing. Turner's friend, who's ...

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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo intends to sue a major landlord in the city for allegedly harassing rent-regulated tenants.

Vantage properties owns about 125 buildings in Queens, Harlem and Upper Manhattan. They're accused of trying to push out long term rent-regulated tenants so they ...

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A federal judge in Manhattan says he will not require the New York City Housing Authority to reinstate 2,600 housing vouchers for low-income families. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: Judge Sidney Stein says there isn't enough proof that people will end up homeless without the housing ...

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Sen. Charles Schumer says the federal government has agreed to give New York $18 million for an NYPD initiative aimed at stopping nuclear and radiological devices from entering the city.

Schumer says the money will help pay for more sensors along highways, at toll plazas, bridges, ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to correct what he called years of discrimination against minority fire fighter applicants.

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During his State of the City address, Mayor Bloomberg also announced the city's child welfare agency will take over the Department of Juvenile Justice. The move signals a change in the way juvenile offenders will be handled. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

Instead of sending juveniles to ...

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A federal judge has ordered the city to correct what he called years of discrimination against minority fire fighter applicants. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

Judge Nicholas Garaufis has already ruled that exams the city uses to hire firefighters put minority applicants at a disadvantage. He also ...

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A trauma van sent by SUNY Downstate Medical Center parked in front of the Flatbush Caton Market.

There is a slideshow of the Flatbush Caton Market here.

A teaching hospital in Flatbush Brooklyn, is trying to help New York Haitians by offering ...

A federal judge has ruled that New York City is intentionally discriminating against blacks by continuing to use written exams to screen and rank firefighters.

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A federal judge has ruled that New York City is intentionally discriminating against blacks by continuing to use written exams to screen and rank firefighters.

Blacks and Hispanics fare worse on the exams than whites. Anjana Samant represents the Vulcan Society, a black fraternity of firefighters ...

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The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village say they're working to re-negotiate the terms of their loan, after announcing that they'll default on their mortgage.

REPORTER: The property was purchased for a record $5.4 billion in 2006, but it's worth less than half that ...

The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village have announced that they'll default on their mortgage.

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The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village have announced that they'll default on their mortgage.

The sprawling Manhattan property was purchased by Tishman Speyer and Black Rock Realty for a record $5.4 billion dollars in 2006. It's worth less than half that today.

When the ...

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As freezing temperatures continue this week, the city is doubling its efforts to find homeless New Yorkers sleeping on the street. Outreach workers are instructed to regularly monitor people who they know commonly sleep in certain locations. Rolando Williams from the non-profit Common Ground starts ...

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A state Supreme Court judge has stopped a Bronx building owner from evicting a group of tenants for non-payment of rent. The tenants claim their landlord illegally raised rents.

The tenants used the same argument made by the tenants of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. ...

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A Congressional study released this week finds the anti-poverty group ACORN has not violated any federal regulations in the last five years.

ACORN has been plagued by scandal after allegations of voter fraud and videos showing workers advising a man and woman posing ...

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A lawsuit alleges the New York City Housing Authority improperly revoked more than 3,000 housing vouchers for low-income families.

Legal Aid attorney Judith Goldiner filed the class action suit today and says the housing authority broke rules by not holding public hearings and by not officially ...