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Early Addition: Winning an affordable housing lottery is great unless it's not
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 16, 2026 at 9:41 a.m. ET
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where Mayor Mamdani wants parking lot owners to ban ICE.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Work is set to begin next week on lifting the sagging floors of an office-to-residential conversion project at a Midtown building that nearly collapsed this summer.
- The MTA said it's paying for the construction of four new elevators at the 42 St-Bryant Park/5 Av subway station with revenue from congestion pricing.
- Winning a housing lottery for an affordable apartment sounds great as long as you're mentally prepared for the apartment to be not that affordable — and also extremely small and in a building with market-rate rent-payers who get amenities you don't.
- The George Washington Bridge's South Walk for pedestrians is now open.
- There's a pop-up nonprofit community sauna in the East Village.
- More and more, airplane seat-back pockets don't have barf bags.
- Killer whales can't stop mutilating great white sharks.
And finally, checking out the staff picks:
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