Even a dead end street has speeding drivers, piles of trash and upticking crime.

133 Street off Metropolitan Avenue is about a 900 feet dead-end residential street. During alternate side street cleaning hours, parked cars do not move and are not ticketed. Trash piles up. Rats abound. For those cars that do move, residents’ driveway if often blocked. Previously, crime has been low, but now… theft and break-in are … Read more

Comptroller Lander, focus on helping Ida victims instead of creating new penalties for landlords.

Your “Basement Resident Protection Law” is to empower tenants living in not-to-Building-Department-code basements to sue their landlord. You will make the current housing and homeless crisis even worse! Instead, the 1907 Holzhausen v. City of New York case should be overridden and the City’s infrastructure and building codes should be upgraded in anticipation of more … Read more

NYC Health Department inspections should allow food establishments time to correct violations. Fines should only be issued for repeated and agreed-to violations.

Currently, fines are issued on the spot upon inspection. There is no chart or table of fines posted publicly. There is no grace period for violators to correct. Even the Business Owner’s Bill of Rights is biased to protect its own inspectors, not to help business owners.