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“They Stole My Home”: Deed Theft in NYC

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By Samuel Stein, Richard Rothstein, Jeffrey Wilson Verified
| bklynlibrary.org
“They Stole My Home”: Deed Theft in NYC adults community partner legal resources Deed theft—the act of stealing a home—is rampant. Between 2023-2025, deed theft increased by 240% in New York City. Sherease Torain’s family owned their brownstone in Brooklyn for six decades. Then, they were served court papers for an eviction case. Landlord? How could they have a landlord when they owned the home? This was the beginning of a decade-long court battle over deed theft.
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City of Meh | Issue 52 | n+1 | Samuel Stein

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By Samuel Stein
| n+1 Magazine Verified
Eric Adams told the truth. “You guys are going to have so much fun over the next four years,” he predicted to a gaggle of political journalists in July 2021, shortly after winning New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. And they did. This has been a golden age for investigative reporting, City Hall Kremlinology, and political wisecracking — in quantity and quality, at least, if rarely in revenue for local media.
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Mamdanism Without Guarantees | Samuel Stein

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By Samuel Stein
| Soundings from The New York Review
Illustration by Stuart Davis In an age when all of planning discourse has been reduced to a choice between YIMBY (“yes in my backyard”) and NIMBY (“not in my backyard”), Zohran Mamdani dodged the binary and offered something different. In his affordable housing plan, he criticized the city’s dependence on neighborhood rezonings, which channel growth toward particular locations, while calling for  more housing development across the board.
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