Mihir Zaveri

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Dana Rubinstein |Mihir Zaveri

The Elizabeth Street Garden in Lower Manhattan was going to be razed to make way for affordable housing for older New Yorkers. Now the plan may be on hold. New York City's decision to evict a popular city-owned garden in one of the wealthiest parts of Manhattan to make way for affordable housing was a done deal as recently as a month ago, despite pressure from Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Patti Smith.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Mihir Zaveri |Hilary Howard

More than 80,000 homes on Staten Island and in southeast Queens and the suburbs east of New York City could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, according to a new report that serves as a warning of how climate change could make the housing crisis even worse.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Mihir Zaveri

Most New Yorkers probably have not read the City Charter, which outlines the workings of city government and is often compared to the U.S. Constitution. But this year, a panel of civic leaders will suggest revisions that could help relieve the housing crisis. The panel, known as a Charter Revision Commission, is holding a series of public hearings, including on Monday in Queens, to come up with proposals to put before voters in November.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Mihir Zaveri

Last winter, Eileen Kelley received a notice that her landlord was not going to renew her lease when it expired in a few months. After eight years in the East Village, a neighborhood in Manhattan she had come to love for its street markets and parks, Ms. Kelley, 29, confronted the sudden possibility that she might have to leave.

Jan 22, 2025 | chicagotribune.com | Mihir Zaveri

We lurched along an unpaved road in the night, walls of trees and knotted vines on either side. In the darkness lurked some of the world’s most unusual mammals, and I had come to Borneo to fulfill a lifelong dream to see them: catlike civets, scaled anteaters called pangolins and big-eyed colugos that spread their body flat as they glide from trunk to trunk. In the open back of a pickup truck, two wildlife spotters stood in front of me, whirling their flashlights.