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Throughout a Jan. 4 go to to 1520 Sedgwick Ave., Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced the forthcoming launch of “Rental Ripoff” hearings and his appointment of Dina Levy as housing commissioner. Photograph Ed Reed/Mayoral Pictures Workplace Three days into his time period, Mayor Zohran Mamdani stopped within the West Bronx to announce a brand new effort to sort out town’s housing disaster and a brand new housing commissioner to assist lead the work.  At a press convention at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. —broadly thought to be the birthplace of hip-hop— Mamdani introduced forthcoming “Rental Ripoff” hearings in every borough inside his first…

Diana Moreno has secured the Queens Democratic Social gathering’s nomination forward of a particular election subsequent month. Photograph by way of Kara McCurdy/Moreno Marketing campaign. The Queens Democratic Social gathering has formally nominated democratic socialist Diana Moreno because the get together’s nominee in a particular election dash to succeed Mayor Zohran Mamdani within the thirty sixth Meeting District subsequent month. Moreno, one in every of 4 candidates working to switch Mamdani in western Queens, will now seem on the Democratic Social gathering line for the particular election, which Gov. Kathy Hochul has set for Feb. 3. An Ecuadorian-born organizer and…