City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

3D massings of two buildings proposed by Maddd Equities for 1014 Brook Ave. in the Bronx. The Dept. of City Planning will hold a public scoping meeting on the project Tuesday. (Aufgang via Dept of City Planning)

Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings, as well as upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

Know of an event we should include in next week’s calendar? Email us.

Upcoming Housing and Land Use-Related Events:

Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2 to 5 p.m.: The Department of City Planning will hold a public scoping meeting for a rezoning proposal by Maddd Equities to build two high-rises with 1,128 apartments at 1014 Brook Ave. in the Bronx. More here.

Wednesday, Aug. 20 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: The Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s outreach van will be at 206 Dyckman St. in Upper Manhattan to share information on applying for affordable housing, tenant rights and responsibilities, filing a housing complaint and more. More here.

Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 11 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises will meet regarding the following land use proposals: 1946 East 7th Street Rezoning, 5602-5604 Broadway Rezoning, 515 7th Avenue, and 350 Park Avenue. More here.

Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m.: The Morris Jumel Mansion presents “The City Grows, The House Expands,” a virtual conversation featuring historian Matthew Spady about Upper Manhattan’s growth in the early 20th Century. More here.

NYC Affordable Housing Lotteries Ending Soon: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) are closing lotteries on the following subsidized buildings over the next week.

2171 Frederick Douglass Apartments, Manhattan, for households earning between $131,143 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 8/18)

2519 Sedgwick Avenue Apartments, Bronx, for households earning between $73,920 – $140,000 (last day to apply is 8/18)

43-25 52nd Street Apartments, Queens, for households earning between $35,040 – $157,500 (last day to apply is 8/18)

94-15 Sutphin Boulevard Apartments, Queens, for households earning between $75,669 – $160,720 (last day to apply is 8/18)

570 Fulton Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $68,949 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 8/18)

88-34 54th Avenue Apartments, Queens, for households earning between $83,555 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 8/20)

300 East 50th Street Apartments, Manhattan, for households earning between $60,172 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 8/21)

947 College Avenue Apartments, Bronx, for households earning between $101,418 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 8/25)

150 Lawrence Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $73,749 – $140,000 (last day to apply is 8/25)

Fischer Senior Apartments, Bronx, for households earning up to $72,900 (last day to apply is 8/25)

Paseo on 5th aka 120 5th Avenue Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $25,166 – $175,000 (last day to apply is 8/25)

21 East 29th Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $117,086 – $261,170 (last day to apply is 8/25)

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MATT BROWN and MIKE PESOLI, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joining forces from three other Republican-led states, the Mississippi National Guard will deploy 200 troops to Washington as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing federal policing and immigration overhaul in the nation’s capital.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a statement Monday that he has approved the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington, D.C.

“Crime is out of control there, and it’s clear something must be done to combat it,” Reeves said.

Mississippi joins three other states that have pledged to deploy hundreds of National Guard members to the nation’s capital to bolster the Republican administration’s operation aiming to transform policing in the Democratic-led city through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness.

West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 troops, South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio said it will send 150 in the coming days, deployments that built on top of President Donald Trump’s initial order that 800 National Guard troops deploy as part of the federal intervention.

Trump’s executive order that launched the federal operation declared a “crime emergency” in the District of Columbia and initiated a takeover Washington’s police department. The administration has ordered local police to cooperate with federal agents on immigration enforcement, orders that would contradict local laws prohibiting such collaboration.

“D.C. has been under siege from thugs and killers, but now, D.C. is back under Federal Control where it belongs,” Trump wrote on his social media website a day after issuing his order. “The White House is in charge. The Military and our Great Police will liberate this City, scrape away the filth, and make it safe, clean, habitable and beautiful once more!”

During a Monday news conference, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pushed back on Trump’s characterization of the city and voiced skepticism about the administration’s intentions in flooding the capital with troops and federal agents.

“We don’t have any authority over the DC Guard or any other guards, but I think it makes the point that this is not about DC crime,” Bowser said of the administration and states deploying National Guard members onto the streets of the capital.

“The focus should be on violent crime,” Bowser continued. “Nobody is against focusing on driving down any level of violence. And so if this is really about immigration enforcement the administration should make that plain.”

National Guard members in the District of Columbia have been assisting law enforcement with tasks including crowd control and patrolling landmarks such as the National Mall and Union Station. Their role has been limited thus far, and it remains unclear why additional troops would be needed.

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Federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service and other agencies have patrolled high traffic areas around the capital over the last week. ICE officers, who work under the Department of Homeland Security, have made arrests in neighborhoods across the city, dispersed some public gatherings and torn pro-immigrant signs, according to videos published by the administration.

The White House has touted various arrests that local police and federal agents have made across the city since Trump’s executive order. Federal agents have made 380 arrests in the week since the start of the operation and in some cases issued charges to detained people. The White House has touted the surge of agents on social media and posted pictures of people arrested by local and federal officers.

“Washington, DC is getting safer every night thanks to our law enforcement partners,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on social media. “Just this weekend, 137 arrests were made and 21 illegal firearms were seized. In total, there have been nearly 400 arrests—and we are not slowing down.”

Amid the crackdown, the administration has received criticism for the conduct of some federal agents, who in several high-profile incidents have arrested people while wearing masks that hide their identity and declined to identify themselves to media or members of the public when questioned.

Bowser said Monday that she had asked D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith to seek answers from the administration about the use of masked police.

“It’s very important to us that agents be identified,” Bowser said. “There’s no reason for a law enforcement official to be masked.”

Over the weekend in Washington, protesters pushed back on federal law enforcement and National Guard troops fanning out in the city. Scores of protesters gathered in the city’s Dupont Circle on Saturday and marched to the White House.

Associated Press writer Jeff Amy in Atlanta contributed to this report.

By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press

Republicans can move ahead with redrawing Texas’ congressional districts now that Democratic lawmakers have returned to the state. Efforts to thwart President Donald Trump’s push to tilt the political map for next year’s midterm elections in his favor shifted to California.

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Dozens of Texas Democrats ended a two-week walkout Monday after Democrats in California heeded Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call to counter the GOP effort in Texas.

In California, the Democratic-supermajority Legislature faces right deadlines, and a plan would have to be approved by voters in November.

Republicans have more options for mid-decade redistricting than Democrats because they control more statehouses, and they’ve talked about redrawing districts in Florida, Indiana and Missouri.

Here’s what to know.

Trump is trying avoid a congressional check on him

Both Trump and the Democrats are looking ahead to the 2026 midterms knowing that they often go against the president’s party, as they did during Trump’s first term in 2018. Republicans currently have a seven-seat majority in the 435-member House.

State legislatures draw the lines after each U.S. census in most states — including Texas — and only a few dozen House districts are competitive.

In Texas, Republicans hold 25 of 38 seats, and they’re trying to increase that to 30. In California, Democrats have 43 of the 52 seats, and they’re trying to boost that to 48, to wipe out the advantage the GOP would gain from redrawing lines in Texas.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California is more complicated for Democrats

In some ways, the nation’s most-populous state, California, is a reverse-mirror image of the nation’s second most-populous state, Texas. Democrats are even more firmly in control of state government there than Republicans are in Texas, with Democratic supermajorities in both California legislative chambers.

But California’s districts were drawn by an independent commission created by a statewide vote in 2008 after years of intense partisan battles over redistricting.

Democrats are trying to avoid legal challenges to a new map by asking voters to approve it as an exception to the normal process, which would require a special election in November. Texas has no such commission, so its Legislature doesn’t have to seek voters’ approval for its maps.

California lawmakers were returning Monday to the state capital from a summer break. They are scheduled to remain in session through Sept. 12.

Texas Democratic lawmakers return to Texas after leaving two weeks ago to block a vote on a redrawn redistricting map, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Why a walkout stalled Republicans in Texas

Republicans have solid majorities in both chambers of the Texas Legislature, and a Democrat hasn’t won statewide office there since 1994. But Texas is among a handful of states where two-thirds of each chamber must be present to conduct business, and the GOP majorities are not that large.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott already had called a special legislative session when Trump began pushing for a new congressional map, but GOP lawmakers could not conduct business after most Democratic lawmakers left for blue states, including California, Illinois and Massachusetts.

But there were pressures on Democrats against holding out longer. They were away from their families and nonlegislative jobs, and their walkout also prevented lawmakers from providing relief to the Texas Hill Country ravaged by deadly flash flooding in July. They also faced fines of $500 per day, as well as efforts to oust some of them from office.

SILVER BAY — A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter hoisted four children from a “rock” offshore a popular beach on the North Shore of Lake Superior early Sunday morning.

At 2:10 a.m., an MH-60 Jayhawk from USCG’s Air Station Traverse City in Michigan rescued the children and brought them to emergency medical services waiting at a clearing on shore, the USCG Great Lakes District said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

An update on Monday includes a video and more information about the rescue.

“Coast Guard Sector Northern Great Lakes received a request for helicopter assistance at approximately 9 p.m., from Lake County, Minnesota, reporting that the individuals were unable to safely disembark the rock due to hazardous conditions,” according to the Coast Guard report on the incident.

The Coast Guard reports that after the children were rescued, they were transported to awaiting Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel and the children’s parents in a nearby field. Their conditions were not detailed.

“This successful rescue highlights the critical importance of interagency coordination and the rapid response capabilities of the U.S. Coast Guard,” said Lt. (junior grade) Patrick Grissler, Aircraft Commander, in the provided statement. “We are grateful for the collaboration with Lake County and are pleased to have safely assisted these individuals.”

Black Beach has become a popular destination for North Shore visitors since the beach, made out of the taconite tailings Reserve Mining used to dump directly into Lake Superior, opened to the public, and the city redeveloped the area nearby with a campground and other attractions.

The sand-like tailings connect the mainland with an island in Lake Superior, and some visitors scramble up its steep rockface to the top.

In 2023, two 18-year-old men drowned after jumping into Lake Superior at Black Beach.

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