David Brand

New York

Housing Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)

Housing Reporter at Gothamist

Covering housing for @WNYC @Gothamist | [email protected] | Past: @CityLimitsNews, @QueensEagle, @CityWatchWBAI & before that, a Licensed Social Worker

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NY lets Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards owner skirt huge penalties for affordable housing failure

1 week ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

The owners of the stalled Atlantic Yards megaproject surrounding the Barclays Center in Brooklyn reached a deal back in 2014: Build hundreds of affordable apartments by May 31, 2025, or face millions of dollars in monthly penalties. But while the housing hasn’t materialized, the fines won’t either — at least not anytime soon. New York’s economic development arm is letting the owners off the hook for now.
NYC Rent Guidelines Board will hold rare re-vote to possibly lower range of rent increases

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

The panel that sets the rent for tenants in roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments is meeting next week to vote on a revised range of potential increases — possibly leading to a lower final rent hike on new 2-year leases, according to three people directly familiar with deliberations who asked not to be named in order to discuss confidential information.
This housing complex is home to 25K New Yorkers. Their costs are about to soar.

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

At more than 120 acres, the Rochdale Village co-op complex in southeast Queens is big enough to fit four CitiFields inside its borders, with some room left over for a Little League diamond.
As doormen and porters prepare for strike, NYC luxury condo labor dispute divides Cuomo backers

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

A dozen building workers at a luxury condo tower in the Financial District, where units sell for up to $20 million, have said they are preparing for a rare strike after months of failed negotiations with the developer-controlled board.
How a Manhattan bar at the center of a bribery scheme became a hot spot for NYC's political class

3 weeks ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

When state Sen. Liz Krueger arrived at a fundraiser for Gov. Kathy Hochul in Manhattan one morning in December 2021, she was surprised to learn that the venue was the same unassuming four-story Midtown office building that she’d been in a battle over.
Should NJ protect immigrants 'at all costs?' Democratic governor candidates spar on how far to go.

3 weeks ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

Five New Jersey Democrats running to be the Garden States’ next governor laid out their plans for opposing President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies at a forum Monday in Newark — not far from ongoing protests over a controversial immigrant detention center, where one candidate was arrested by federal agents just days earlier.
Did Mayor Adams really forget the passcode for his phone seized by the feds?

3 weeks ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

How’s this for a no good, very bad day? First, you change your cellphone passcode to keep your employees from meddling with your stuff. Then you forget the new sequence, so you steel yourself for a tedious trip to the Apple Store to help unlock it — only for federal agents to come along and try to seize the device later that evening. Except you can’t hand over the phone, because you left it at the office.
DHS says arrests 'on the table' for NJ congressmembers after ICE center protest

3 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Brittany Kriegstein |David Brand

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that “there will likely be more arrests coming” for members of Congress who were present when Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside a federal immigration detention facility in New Jersey on Friday. In an interview on CNN Saturday morning, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told anchor Victor Blackwell that the agency was reviewing body camera footage that allegedly showed elected officials pushing and shoving federal agents.
Real estate execs gave $400K to Cuomo’s PAC. NYC is suing them for building disrepair.

4 weeks ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

Fix the City? How about just fixing your buildings, tenants and their advocates say. The political action committee backing Andrew Cuomo’s bid for mayor — dubbed “Fix the City” — has collected at least $410,000 from real estate executives and companies currently being sued by the city that Cuomo hopes to lead, according to a Gothamist review of court records.
3 GOP candidates for NJ governor live tonight: Take individual towns' housing mandates away

1 month ago | gothamist.com | David Brand

Three Republican candidates vying to be the Garden State’s next governor say they will lower property taxes to make New Jersey more affordable for residents — while reversing a law meant to streamline affordable housing development across the state. State Sen.

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9 May 25

Feds arrest Newark Mayor/Democratic candidate for NJ Governor Ras Baraka for 'trespassing' at an ICE jail in the city he leads @BKriegstein for @Gothamist https://t.co/y5ZDyze1PY

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9 May 25

The hockey rink-to-semiconductor plant pipeline

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Mayor Adams is considering turning the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a semiconductor manufacturing plant — and he has discussed the idea with President Trump amid the administration’s ongoing trade war with China. w/ @C_Sommerfeldt https://t.co/2vBudxENbL

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Articles

NY lets Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards owner skirt huge penalties for affordable housing failure

NYC Rent Guidelines Board will hold rare re-vote to possibly lower range of rent increases

This housing complex is home to 25K New Yorkers. Their costs are about to soar.

As doormen and porters prepare for strike, NYC luxury condo labor dispute divides Cuomo backers

How a Manhattan bar at the center of a bribery scheme became a hot spot for NYC's political class

Should NJ protect immigrants 'at all costs?' Democratic governor candidates spar on how far to go.

Did Mayor Adams really forget the passcode for his phone seized by the feds?

DHS says arrests 'on the table' for NJ congressmembers after ICE center protest

Real estate execs gave $400K to Cuomo’s PAC. NYC is suing them for building disrepair.

3 GOP candidates for NJ governor live tonight: Take individual towns' housing mandates away

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Ben Orner

James Flippin

Andrea Cambron

Christine Speer Lejeune

Michael McAllister

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