Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall Wants to Build Tenant Unions

At New York’s first “Rental Ripoff” hearing this year, tenants packed a high-school gym in Brooklyn to share horror stories. “We’ve had our neighbors trapped in elevators. We’ve had people slip and fall. We’ve had windows fall on people. We’ve had the ceiling collapse on people,” Angela Landress, a representative of one Flatbush tenant’s association, the crowd.told The hearings were more of a listening session than a traditional hearing, with Cea Weaver, the head of the Mayor’s Office to…