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Plus: Park Slope stabbing suspect sought by police [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Want to own your NYC apartment? This nonprofit is helping renters buy their units.]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☀️ Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. It's Monday in New York City, where a novel way to buy your rental apartment at an affordable price comes with a catch: You can't sell it for big gains down the road. Here's how a nonprofit called the East New York Community Land Trust is trying to help the tenants of one four-story apartment building become [owners of permanently affordable co-op units](. And here's what else is happening: - Police on Monday said they were still searching for the suspect who [fatally stabbed a 19-year-old woman]( at a bodega in Park Slope early Sunday. - Passengers who tried fleeing Brooklyn's Fulton Street subway station after a shooting on an A train last Thursday said they were [forced to exit single file after an emergency gate wouldn't budge](. - Prosecutors said the man who shot a fellow passenger on that A train appears to have acted in self-defense and [will not face charges, for now](. - [Here’s]( a timeline of shootings in the city's transit system so far this year. - To receive all of Gothamist's transit coverage, [subscribe to our On The Way newsletter](. - A long-awaited city report shared exclusively with Gothamist says the NYPD seized 6,242 guns between July 2020 and December 2021 — and that [two-thirds of those firearms hadn't been used in a crime](. - New Jersey State Attorney General Matthew Platkin [said he won't defend against a lawsuit]( brought by Rep. Andy Kim over the state's ballot system because he believes it's unconstitutional. - [A hearing is scheduled for today]( after Kim, who's running against New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy in a Democratic Senate primary, sought an injunction against the county line balloting system, asking that all the Senate candidates be listed together on primary ballots. - New York City’s Public Schools Athletic League canceled a varsity boy’s basketball championship game on Friday after an audit found [teams violated age limit and academic eligibility rules](. - Gov. Hochul is ordering a top-to-bottom review of why New York's legal cannabis rollout has been [such "a disaster."]( - A realtor is pitching condos and rental units in Upper Manhattan as a way to "avoid congestion pricing." - '“There were kids who were sitting in the cafeteria receiving no instruction for hours": Former students, parents and employees told The Cut about [the chaos that's engulfed Capital Prep]( the Harlem charter school co-founded by Diddy. - Park rangers in the Adirondacks are concerned that 170,000 people are going to show up next month to [watch the total eclipse]( — and potentially overwhelm rescue teams. - The Brooklyn Seltzer Museum last Friday held the first-ever National Egg Cream Invitational ... and [the top prize]( went to a soda shop from Philly. - The St. John's mens basketball team [got snubbed]( from the NCAA tournament — and declined the invitation from the also-ran NIT tournament. - Pet rocks are [a big hit in South Korea]( right now. - Have some time for a game? 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