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Evictions are on the decline—except in the Bronx
NYU’s Furman Center released a report looking at the number of residential evictions in the five boroughs, and found a surprising trend: On the whole, the number of evictions has gone down. The last year used in the report, 2017, saw 176,590 eviction filings initiated by landlords; that’s a nearly 8 percent drop from the number filed in 2010. Filings that then led to an executed eviction warrant are also on the downswing, with a 14.4 percent drop recorded between 2010 and 2016. The average cost typically sought? Around $3,000.
There is one outlier, though: In the Bronx, eviction filings have steadily risen since 2010, and the borough ended 2017 with more filings than it saw at the beginning of the decade. In 2017, close to 69,000 eviction filings were initiated in the borough, representing a whopping 39 percent of total cases in the city. (Unsurprisingly, Staten Island had the fewest in the period measured by the Furman Center.)
“The decrease in housing court filings and executed warrants overall is good news for New York City,” Matthew Murphy, the Furman Center’s executive director, said in a statement. “Yet there remain stark differences in eviction filing rates across neighborhoods, so further research is to understand the causes of these disparities and their potential solutions.”
And in other news…
- Port Authority is looking into self-driving buses to ease congestion near the Lincoln Tunnel.
- Rooms at the Hotel Pennsylvania, which may or may not be torn down to give way to a skyscraper, are getting gut renovated.
- A little over six weeks after it finally launched, Mayor Bill de Blasio rode the 14th Street busway.
- The 2018 ceiling collapse at the Borough Hall subway stop could have been prevented.
- Artist Brian Donnelly (better known by his artistic nom de plume, KAWS) bought a 10,000-square-foot Williamsburg building for $17 million. He intends to use it as his studio.
- What’s happening with the timeline for affordable housing at Pacific Park?
- Marine Park will get an $11 million revamp.
- The ride-hailing app Juno is no longer, and its owners blamed minimum wage requirements enacted by the city last year.
- And finally, say goodbye to the NYC Taxi Drivers calendar: The final edition of the utterly delightful calendar was released this week, with 12 new drivers providing, uh, inspiration. They cost $15 and proceeds benefit University Settlement. (Proof that nothing gold can stay.)
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