Matthew Sedacca

What do you get when you mix E. Williamsburg factories with 20-somethings? Two decades of indoor skateparks, explosions, rooftop shows, building-wide ragers, hostel rackets, porn studios, bed bugs — and more! My latest Bio of a Building for @NYMag/@Curbed. curbed.com/article/mckibb…

A week ago, @citrini dispatched an analyst to the Strait of Hormuz. Soon, he was cruising on a boat in the strait with a beer and a waterproof Pelican case full of Zyn and cigars. What he saw — tankers, some on fire and some that made it through, and more — @NYMag nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Was it really just a mirage after all? bkmag.com/2026/03/31/bro…

Residents in what until recently was the Jane Hotel are paying $262 a week for a room, just down the hall from the San Vicente members club. curbed.com/article/jane-h…

“The Bronx, to this day, has buildings that are almost 100 percent — if not 100 percent — regulated. And those are the buildings that are struggling the most, that have the highest violation counts,” says Kenny Burgos, the 31-year-old former assemblyman and CEO of the New York Apartment Association, a group whose members include property owners and managers of some 500,000 rent-stabilized apartments. He’s making the case that, as things stand with our current housing laws, keeping apartments in those buildings habitable means tenants will have to pay more. Burgos knows it’s an unpopular opinion, especially in a city where the majority of people rent. And it’s especially unpopular now, since the mayor was elected on a promise to freeze the rents on those very apartments. Burgos may spend his days fighting Mayor Mamdani’s housing policies, but he also likes the guy. He was two years behind him at Bronx Science, though the pair didn’t meet until they were both elected to the State Assembly in 2020. They quickly hit it off. Now, their ideologies will go head-to-head at the annual Rent Guidelines Board meetings that kick off in March, where tenant reps, landlord groups, and housing wonks make their case for how much to allow stabilized rents to increase, if at all. The potential four-year rent freeze Mamdani promised is on the line. Burgos and his team have spent hours planning the arguments they’ll make to the board. “I’m obviously going to be painted as the heel,” Burgos says. “But I just know, based on the data and based on the trend line, that this is not sustainable.” Read Matthew Sedacca’s full conversation with Burgos: nymag.visitlink.me/8Ga4iY

I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway.

Across the United States, plasma centers are opening in wealthier areas as more people struggle with the high cost of housing, groceries and health care. Here's a look at the middle-class suburbanites who sell their blood plasma to get by financially: nytimes.com/2026/03/20/bus…

In short, “luxury” can often equal “crappy.”

Neighbors say a nonstop disco ball in a window on West 86th Street is causing "extreme disruption" for residents across the block. "We have tried contacting the non-emergency police number, and they said there’s nothing they can do about it because no law is being broken."

scoop: the Elizabeth Street Garden housing developers abruptly paused their suit against the city a few days after filing it, as they negotiate with the Adams administration on a compromise that would allow them to build at nearby 22 Suffolk St. instead: crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

A group of residents at a wealthy Forest Hills co-op are running to unseat the current board and want to drop the lawsuits against the nearby Forest Hills Stadium. queenseagle.com/all/2025/11/20…

As a young architect, Andrew Tesoro flirted with the idea of airlifting a trailer onto a Manhattan high-rise to live in. That idea didn't fly, but he found a way to build his dream home in sky. curbed.com/article/how-i-…

The market apparently is so hot in Prospect Heights that one broker won a bidding war in the middle of his 20-mile run. curbed.com/article/prospe…

A lot of people on the Upper West Side, including Tony Danza, are mad about Extell’s plans for a supertall luxury building. Community leaders aren’t fans either but hope they can get a decent amount of affordable housing out of the process. curbed.com/article/extell…

“They were hitting L.A., Portland,” an employee at a clothing store said. “Now they’re hitting us.”

Median rent in Greenpoint is now $4,700 a month So who gets to stay there? I spent several weeks reporting on it for @wnyc and @Gothamist

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confirmed, MGM has unexpectedly withdrawn its downstate casino bid for Empire City Yonkers, leaving just three contenders for three licenses. crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

Want to rent the Crypto Torture Townhouse? Get on line. curbed.com/article/crypto…

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.

CAC voted 6-0 to advance Resorts World's application to the final stage for one of the three Downstate full casino licenses. "Sorry Jay-Z, we win again," Queens BP Donovan Richards Jr. said before announcing his aye vote, alluding to the Nas–Jay-Z Beef.