Samantha Maldonado

6 days ago | thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado

Kirstin Kapustik was on her way home after a Friday night performance of Trisha Brown Dance Company at The Joyce Theater when her evening took a turn for the worse. Kapustik, the company’s executive director, got an email from the National Endowment for the Arts informing her that its offer of a $40,000 grant would be withdrawn. The money was for a concert production premiering in June, in partnership with the Merce Cunningham Trust, to celebrate the centennial of the artist Robert Rauschenberg.

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Anna Kramer |Samantha Maldonado

New York Attorney General Letitia James along with her counterparts in 17 other states sued the Trump administration on Monday seeking to permanently block Trump’s complete halt on all offshore wind energy development. The Democratic attorneys general argued in a 101-page complaint that the president’s attacks on the industry violated a litany of federal laws and are already causing significant economic harm across the country.

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan |Haidee Chu |Rachel Holliday Smith |Samantha Maldonado

It’s not just the mayor on the ballot in New York City this year. Many other offices are up for grabs, including all 51 seats in the City Council — including nine Councilmembers who are term-limited and cannot run again.

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado

A half dozen candidates running for mayor are calling for a rent freeze for over a million rent-stabilized apartments — but Mayor Eric Adams could make that goal difficult to fulfill, not just this year but into any successor’s term. That’s because the mayor appoints members of the Rent Guidelines Board to terms as long as four years, and under Adams the board has voted to raise rents every year since he took office in 2022. The board is on course to do it again this year.

2 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado

Congratulations, you won the New York City housing lottery! But not so fast: Before you can move into an affordable apartment, you have to provide a mountain of paperwork to verify you’re eligible. But now, that mountain may look less like the Rockies and more like the Catskills, as the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development is requiring applicants to provide fewer documents.