Developers are grumbling, but they'll have to adapt. The tax breaks they have enjoyed for the past 35 years in exchange for building new housing units in NY will now come with more strings attached. Specifically, the new plan approved by City Council on Wednesday aims to create more affordable housing and staunch the flow of taxpayer subsidies toward luxury housing. The New York Times, which endorsed Speaker Christine Quinn's plan before it passed,......

The investigationcontinues at the Greenpoint Terminal Market. We thought this quote from a Department of Environmental Protection workerin the Daily News summed it up well: "It looks like an atomic bomb hit it. This looks like a war zone. Everything's totally burned down. Fuhgeddaboudit." One concern is that the buildings will collapse, since the structures have been so devastated by the fire, so the Fire Department is going to start tearing down some buildings.......

- Transportation Alternatives is worried about the "duck" water-land touring vehicles being a problem for bikers - Carroll Gardens is so popular that of course the rats are having a field day - We love this building on Prospect Park West, too - Police are still looking for the man that killed one man and injured another in an East Harlem shooting last night - Citibank and NY Community Bank will help Housing Here......

Julie Miles, Housing Here and Now...

The housing rights group Housing Here and Now just announced a list of the city's top ten worst landlords, as well as the corresponding website, NYC's Worst Landlords. You can read a PDF of the report which details how the apartments are rife with vermin, building problems, and more, as well as let Housing Here and Now know if your landlord is a slumlord. While many people have landlord horror stories, the ones in the......