The length of time it takes NYCHA to rent out available apartments has climbed in recent years, one of many factors exacerbating the city's affordable housing crisis, lawmakers say. "They just say it's not ready," said one resident currently living in a homeless shelter who has been waiting more than 10 months to move into the NYCHA unit she was approved for.
Mattocks Nelson, 49, was in a park behind the St. Mary’s Park Houses in Longwood when two suspects on a scooter zipped by and sprayed the sidewalk with bullets, police said Monday.