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City council member Jumaane Williams won a special election for New York City public advocate, taking 33 percent of the vote as of 10:35...

In a political climate where candidates and elected officials are disavowing real estate money, some of the most deep-pocketed campaigns for Tuesday’s special election...

A Queens candidate for the city’s Public Advocate has failed to report his ownership of multiple luxury properties to a state ethics agency. Ron...

After coming close to becoming the state’s lieutenant governor, City Council member Jumaane Williams is now eying the role of city public advocate. Williams...

For years, multifamily landlords have griped at the New York City Public Advocate’s “worst landlords” list, decrying that the office unfairly tars them based...

In the latest kerfuffle around city Public Advocate Letitia James’ “Worst Landlords” list, more than 30 self-managed co-ops managed to get themselves on the...

The Public Advocate’s office has been criticized for what some have deemed a lackluster fact-checking effort before publishing its annual “worst landlords of NYC”...

UPDATED, 6:40 p.m., Nov. 23: New York City Public Advocate Letitia James released her annual “Worst Landlord Watchlist” Monday, and it featured at least one...

Housing advocacy group the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board made the annual list of the city’s 100 worst landlords released by Public Advocate Letitia James.

Let the annual bad landlord shaming begin.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has encouraged the New York City Housing Authority to discontinue Section 8 rent subsidies termination notices until problems with...