New York City
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MYTHBUSTING: Misconceptions about NYCHA Repairs
NYCHA residents face an average 415-day wait time for repairs, fears of being displaced by the privatization of public housing, condescension from local nonprofits and management, and broken promises from politicians who claim to serve them. With so much stacked against them, residents are…
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On Sunday, March 22nd, Vincent Thoms died after being held in Manhattan Central Bookings for less than 24 hours
On Sunday, March 22nd, 51 year old Vincent Thoms died in Manhattan Central Bookings after being held in custody for less than a day. Thoms was arrested for allegedly stealing incense sticks at a CVS store in Harlem. Police officials are claiming that Thoms…
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EXPOSING WAVECREST MANAGEMENT
IT’S BEEN ONE MONTH SINCE THE BOSTON SECOR GAS EXPLOSION AND RESIDENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSLY ANGRYAFTER NOTHING BUT FALSE PROMISES AND HUSH MONEY FROM MANAGEMENT Immediately following the explosion on January 24th, Wavecrest posted this flyer in every building, but they were still completely unreachable.…
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PITTSBURGH STAND UP!
TAKE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST PRISON KILLINGS IN PGH Across Pennsylvania, incarcerated people are sent hundreds of miles away where they face horrific conditions behind bars. Correctional officers (COs) brutalize and murder inmates with no recourse and these killings are on the rise. There…
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PACK THE COURT FOR CARL MILLER
Wed Feb. 25 @ 2pm at 320 jay st, Brooklyn, NY In 1979, then 19-year-old Carl Miller was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Rabbi David Okunov. Carl then spent the next three decades upstate in New York prisons. He has steadily maintained his…
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Zohran’s performative “Rental Rip-Off Hearings” ignore the city’s largest slumlord: NYCHA
In Zohran’s latest performance of empty promises, the administration had announced ‘Rental Ripoff Hearings’, forums in which “New Yorkers across all five boroughs are given a direct platform to share their housing experiences in one-on-one conversations with City officials and help shape housing policy”.…
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Fatal Gas explosion at Boston Secor Houses leaves one dead and more than a dozen people injured
Saturday, January 24th, at midnight, a gas line exploded in the Boston Secor Houses, a privatized NYCHA building under notorious PACT slumlord, Wavecrest Management. This explosion follows the gas explosion at the Mitchel Houses in the South Bronx in October. After the Mitchel explosion,…
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“STANDOFFS” OR EXECUTIONS?
NYPD PIGS GUNNED DOWN TWO PEOPLE ON THE SAME DAY AND THE MEDIA IS PROTECTING THE MURDERERS On Thursday, January 8th, the NYPD murdered two people: 62-year old Michael Lynch in Park Slope and 37-year old Dmitry Zass in the West Village. The pigs…
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There have been 16,000 Housing code violations at PACT developments since 2021
Since 2017 NYCHA has broadcasted PACT – Permanent Affordability Commitment Together – as the all encompassing solution to repairing the buildings NYCHA let fall into disrepair. Today there are around 25,000 apartments under PACT at 564 addresses throughout the 5 boroughs. THE CITY newspaper…
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The Frontlines Issue #2 Feb 2025
Letter from the Editor: Privatization Is on the Doorstep at Riis Houses With an Illegitimate “Resident Vote,” NYCHA Moves on Privatization at Riis By: RANDY, DARE TO STRUGGLE When we talk to NYCHA residents about the government’s attempts to get rid of public housing,…
Dare to Struggle 