Tenants near Prospect Park pushed out, property tax reform, & more

By Emily Myers | June 3, 2021 - 10:30AM

Tenants living around Prospect Park say they're being pushed out by a private equity firm that's buying up properties, hiking rents, and refusing to renew leases (Brownstoner)

Three new virtual hearings are being held to discuss reforming New York City's property tax system (press release)

At the first in-person debate for eight Democratic mayoral contenders, crime, police power, education, and housing were in the spotlight (The New York Times)

The city's vaccination program at the Javits Center will soon close to make way for summer events at the convention center (abc7)

You can find out if you live in a hurricane evacuation zone via an updated map from the city's Emergency Management Department (Brooklyn Paper)

Covid vaccine clinics are coming to four schools in the Bronx to give students the Pfizer shot (Gothamist)

Emily Myers

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Emily Myers is a real estate writer and podcast host. As the former host of the Brick Underground podcast, she earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London, earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived for a decade in California.

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