Bronx landlord hit with $1 million penalty for housing discrimination

Plus: MTA adding more LIRR stops for Dalai Lama’s visit [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.]( [Bronx landlord hit with $1 million penalty for housing discrimination]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☀️ Sunny, highs in the upper 70s. It's Thursday in New York City, where it's illegal for landlords to refuse to accept tenants who use government aid to pay rent. After the owner of an East Bronx apartment complex routinely discriminated against low-income renters for years, the city is now ordering them to [pay a $1 million fine and set aside 850 units for tenants with vouchers](. Here's what else is happening: - The Dalai Lama is visiting the UBS Arena on Long Island this morning, so [the Long Island Rail Road is adding extra stops]( on several lines to get people to the venue. - A New York City parks worker has been indicted for murder as a hate crime after previously being charged with [fatally shooting a Venezuelan migrant]( who’d been sleeping in a Brooklyn playground last month. - New data shows that reading scores among New York City public school students [dropped last year]( after the city began overhauling its curriculum. - The vast majority of MTA subway and bus workers [say they were harassed or assaulted on the job]( during the pandemic, according to a new study. - The family of a Jersey City man who was fatally shot by police last summer after his aunt called for help [while he was experiencing a mental health crisis]( is suing local officials. - Rep. Bill Pascrell, a fixture in New Jersey politics for decades, [has died at the age of 87]( leaving a second vacant seat in the state’s Democratic delegation just days ahead of the deadline to get on the November ballot. - "They played their hearts out": Three cheers for Staten Island's run in the Little League World Series, which [came to an end this week](. - McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint has a new bike lane [that people are parking in](. - Robert De Niro and Patti Smith recently sent letters to City Hall urging officials not to [turn the Elizabeth Street Garden into affordable housing](. - "One of the gifts that I have that really made me good at being a mayor is my ability to sexualize and stay focused," Mayor Eric Adams [said yesterday]( at the Democratic National Convention. - In general, the DNC has been [a little sexualized](. - THE CITY has a good profile of Sue Lucchi, a Queens native who rose through the ranks from a Mets intern in 1993 to the [current head of ballpark operations](. - After all these years, Athens has [still got it](. - Beyoncé has [a whiskey brand]( now. - Zoomers love [artfully laying out their belongings]( in TSA metal detector trays. - The Matter Daddy [strikes again](. [“These workers are so hardworking and they tell us when they leave in the morning, sometimes they don't know if they're going to come home at the end of the day. And that all started with COVID.”]( - NYU professor Robyn Gershon, the co-author of a report that found high rates of [MTA WORKERS SAYING THEY WERE ASSAULTED OR HARASSED ON THE JOB]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Afropunk returns to Brooklyn with Erykah Badu — now in the Prospect Park bandshell]( Afropunk, the annual music and arts festival that has featured stars like Bad Brains, Janelle Monáe, SZA and Q-Tip, returns to New York City this weekend in a new location: the Prospect Park bandshell. [New York City supers are begging you to break down your cardboard boxes]( The exploding popularity of e-commerce has created a big inconvenience for New York City supers, who say they spend too much time breaking down cardboard boxes. [We Rely On Your Support]( [You can vote early by mail in New York, state's top court rules]( The state’s highest court has rejected a Republican-led lawsuit over a nearly one-year-old law that grants all eligible New Yorkers the right to vote by mail. [Venerable East Village dive bar Lucy’s closer to reopening]( Manhattan Community Board 3’s liquor license committee has approved transferring Lucy’s liquor license to the bar’s new operators, who also run hotspots including ACME, The Nines and Le Dive. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.