Casey Berkovitz
@CaseyBerk
@2025NYC_CRC and all things NYC housing • ready to talk your ear off about zoning, pizza, or baseball • dms open for inquiries and food recommendations
This is appalling. These are holding cells designed for 2-3 hour stays and they have people sleeping in them overnight, even having to sleep in the bathroom stalls.
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact
As @CaraEckholm says, our onerous housing approval process was well-intentioned, but the consequences are unconscionable. *Over half* of households are rent-burdened—to say nothing of those evicted and displaced, pushed out of the city or onto the streets. It's time for action.
Opinion | This November, New Yorkers have a rare chance to reshape the rules that have let NIMBYs stall housing production for decades. cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025/0…
With City of Yes, NYers gained meaningful economic freedom: Among other things it fixed one of the funniest ancient zoning & use group inconsistencies I've ever encountered It's almost bittersweet—I loved the illegal phonograph repair talking point
We made it easier to make things in NYC again! City of Yes for Economic Opportunity modernized zoning rules to allow quiet & clean production, helping fill empty storefronts. This means businesses like bike repair shops & apparel production are allowed to open in more places.
We made it easier to make things in NYC again! City of Yes for Economic Opportunity modernized zoning rules to allow quiet & clean production, helping fill empty storefronts. This means businesses like bike repair shops & apparel production are allowed to open in more places.
44 underused office buildings → More than 17,000 homes! City of Yes removed outdated restrictions on conversions, making it easier for buildings to transform into housing — and helping to turn the tide on NYC’s housing shortage.
The Charter Revision Commission voted to place five proposals on the November ballot — four aimed at simplifying and speeding up the development approval process for affordable housing. buff.ly/rxjyGlB
These ballot questions will set NYC on a path to a more affordable city for generations to come. The Commission has carefully crafted solutions that keep what's working about our public processes & change what's not. I'm immensely proud to have played a small role in its work.
NEW: The 2025 NYC Charter Revision Commission just voted to advance five questions to New York City voters this November! The first four reforms would help build more housing more quickly, especially affordable housing and modest housing.
How would this year’s ballot measures make New York more affordable? @RichardBuery joined @errollouis @InsideCityHall to explain how they would support affordable housing and small housing projects:
Tune in now to the final public meeting of the 2025 Charter Revision Commission!
For more details, including a Zoom link, visit: nyc.gov/site/charter/m…
Tune in this afternoon as the Charter Revision Commission considers five potential ballot questions regarding housing and land use and elections reform ⬇️
Tyler’s excited about the @2025NYC_CRC vote obviously
MONDAY JULY 21
I've been extremely disheartened by New York Republicans' refusal to support accessory home legalization to let homeowners do what they want with their property, so credit where due: this bill co-sponsored by LI Rep Andrew Garbarino seems like it would be really good.
Exclusive: A bill to be unveiled Friday aims to provide government backing for second mortgages to finance construction of increasingly popular accessory dwelling units on.wsj.com/4nWPfOc
As NYC deals with yet another flash flood warning, which seem to get more frequent every year, a reminder that NYC requires a full ULURP for something as simple as raising the grade of a street to prevent flooding… (Stay safe out there!)
Today's Gospel is the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which we are invited to treat everyone with love, especially those considered foreign, different or "other." No one, no matter what they have done, deserves the treatment below. Everyone has dignity. This is an evil.
🚨Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.” We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then…
Proud to partner with @CMErikBottcher, a leader in NYC’s fight for housing, to submit an amicus brief in support of City of Yes for Housing Opportunity. Thank you to the dozens of elected officials who joined in calling for the new housing creation New Yorkers desperately need.
Deeply grateful for these pro-housing leaders’ defense of City of Yes
Livvy can I interest you in coop disclosure advocacy
A New York City co-op board rejects Livvy Dunne's bid to buy Babe Ruth's one-time apartment, turning aside her nearly $1.6 million offer of cash. nbcnews.com/pop-culture/po…
-$500M in revenue in 6 months -Rush hour delays at Holland Tunnel down 65% -Subway ridership up 7% -Bus ridership up 12% -LIRR ridership up 8% -Metro-North ridership up 6% -Access-A-Ride ridership up 21% Congestion pricing = smashing success gothamist.com/news/numbers-a…
BREAKING: The House just passed the massive budget bill. This legislation will gut health care, food assistance, clean energy and more to fund massive tax cuts for the super-rich. It now goes to Trump's desk.