NYC's wealthiest neighborhoods barely adding affordable units

Plus: National Guard to do bag checks in subway stations [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.]( [NYC data shows deep disparities in affordable housing creation]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: 🌧️ Cloudy, with a chance of rain and highs in the lower 50s. It's Thursday in New York City, where the wealthiest and most suburban neighborhoods have hardly added any new subsidized apartments since Mayor Eric Adams took office. [A new Gothamist analysis]( shows that despite the mayor's pledge to bring affordable housing to every neighborhood, most of the 24,000 units that have been financed by the city since 2022 are located in densely populated, predominantly Black and Latino areas such as Central Brooklyn and the South Bronx. Here's what else is happening: - Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that 750 National Guard members — as well as state and MTA police officers — will be sent to busy subway stations [to check riders’ bags]( as part of a new crackdown on transit crime. - Today in the City Council: - Members are likely to pass a law that aims to [reduce the pollution]( caused by cruise ships docking in New York City. - A package of bills is being introduced with the goal of stopping landlords from using illegal construction and city vacate orders to move tenants far from their homes and [ultimately pressure them to leave for good](. - New York’s guardianship system — where people deemed unfit to care for themselves are placed in the hands of third parties — has for years [left thousands of residents isolated and sometimes in squalor]( according to a new ProPublica investigation. - Today and tomorrow, NJ Transit is holding public feedback sessions about its proposal to hike bus and train fares by 15% — but [you'll have to attend in person](. - In the battle over $60 million in budget cuts for New York City public schools, students notched a recent win: Their beloved chicken dumplings are [returning to cafeteria menus](. - City education officials said they're exploring the possibility of [staggering class start times]( to avoid a repeat of the technical problems that derailed a remote learning day during a snowstorm last month. - Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is suing state Attorney General Letitia James after she demanded that he rescind an executive order [banning trans women from participating in women’s sports]( at county-run facilities. - Police yesterday were trying to reunite more than a dozen pets with their potential former owners after finding the emaciated and neglected animals at a home in Queens — [suspecting they may have been stolen](. - Buddy Duress, an actor and former homeless heroin dealer who translated his real-life New York City street dramas into [early movies by the Safdie brothers]( died late last year at the age of 38. - Judging by the mood at [this Midtown real estate conference]( being a New York City broker seems stressful. - Judging by [this $1,495 Hell's Kitchen studio]( with a shared bathroom, being a New York City renter-to-be seems stressful. - The Living Museum at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, which now [displays art made by outpatients]( has reopened in one of the institution's former dining halls. - A TikTok influencer who adopted a pigeon from an Upper West Side animal rehab center has trained the bird [to use the potty and go to nice restaurants](. - Adding bike lanes in front of your store is good for business, according to [32 economics research papers written since 1984](. - A SuperPAC adjacent to the No Labels political group is calling people asking for $3 donations to support [a presidential unity ticket that doesn't exist yet](. - Some Labradors are just genetically destined to [get fat](. - Wearing beanies indoors: [not everyone's cuppa](. - Throw some french fries [in that burrito](. - Have some time for a game? 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