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

City and state officials unveiling plans for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal. The City Council will hold a hearing on the proposal on Thursday. (Caroline Rubinstein-Willis/Mayoral Photography Office)

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, June 10 at 9:30 a.m.: The Landmarks Preservation Commission will meet. More here.

Tuesday, June 10 at 10 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold an oversight hearing on the Department of Design and Construction’s “design-build” processes. More here.

Tuesday, June 10 at 10: 45 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises will meet regarding land use applications for Grace Houses and Ocean Crest Article XI. More here.

Tuesday, June 10 at 11 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Committee on Land Use will meet regarding applications for Grace Houses and Ocean Crest Article XI. More here.

Tuesday, June 10, 5 to 8 p.m.: New York City Charter Revision Commission, which is considering changes to city government rules around housing and land use, will hold a public input hearing in the Bronx. More here.

Wednesday, June 11 at 12 p.m.: The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and NYC Accelerator will hold an online info session on how property owners and landlords can comply with the city’s new building emissions law, Local Law 97. More here.

Thursday, June 12 at 10 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions will meet regarding land use applications for Carmen Villegas Apartments (Senior Housing), 33-28 Northern Boulevard HRA Office Acquisition and on plans for a 547 to 754-seat primary/intermediate school facility for Halletts Point, Queens. More here.

Thursday, June 12 at 11 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises will meet regarding the application for The Coney Development. More here.

Thursday, June 12 at 11 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Committee on Economic Development will hold an oversight hearing on redevelopment plans for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal. More here.

Thursday, June 12, 5 to 8 p.m.: The city’s Rent Guidelines Board, which is considering annual rent increases for tenants in stabilized apartments, will hold a public hearing in the Bronx. More here.

Monday, June 16 at 10 a.m.: Committee on Public Housing will hold an oversight hearing on vacancies and transfers at NYCHA. More here.

Monday, June 16 at 1 p.m.: The Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a review session. More here.

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

 217 Eckford Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $122,229 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 6/10)

91 De Sales Place, Brooklyn, for households earning between $93,018 – $140,000 (last day to apply is 6/10)

Bushwick Alliance, Brooklyn, for households earning between $38,435 – $140,000 (last day to apply is 6/11)

Eagle Loft Collection Phase 2, Queens, for households earning between $94,286 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 6/13)

Northeastern Towers Annex, Queens, for households earning up to $72,900 (last day to apply is 6/15)

Core NYC, Queens, for households earning between $68,400 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 6/16)

514 Maple Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $90,858 – $261,170 (last day to apply is 6/16)

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Lawmakers removed a measure that would have diverted $93 million in funding from counties to the Met Council from the transportation funding bill Monday during the Legislature’s special session.

Under 2023 legislation metro area counties have received 17% of funds derived from a three-fourth cent regional transportation sales tax, with the remaining 83% going to the Met Council. The proposal would have cut that sum by half and reallocated the money to the Met Council for Bus Rapid Transit expansion. That proposal was removed Monday morning.

Prior to the removal of the measure from the overall transportation budget bill, it drew criticism from a number of metro area county officials. The proposal had surprised county officials as it had not been discussed publicly or voted on during the regular session.

Dakota County would have lost an estimated $14 million in the next two years with the proposal, according to county officials. That money was to fund road preservation, local transit service and trail expansion in Dakota as well as other metro area counties.

State estimates showed that in addition to the $93 million cut over two years for the seven metro-area counties, an additional nearly $100 million would be diverted to the Met Council in the following two-year budget cycle.

The Met Council did not ask for or need the additional funds to complete BRT projects, county officials said. Met Council officials had no comment on the matter Monday.

Though Ramsey County officials recognize that legislators have dealt with difficult budget decisions, the proposed cut was “deeply harmful in several ways,” Ramsey County Board Chair Rafael Ortega wrote in a Wednesday letter to lawmakers from his county.

The proposed cut for the county would have amounted to $8 million to $9 million per year that is already designated for transit and other projects, Ortega wrote.

For Washington County the diverted funding would have amounted to $3.6 million in 2026 and more than $14 million over the next four years, county officials said.

Minnesota lawmakers returned to the Capitol Monday morning to complete the state’s next two-year budget and are expected to finish their work by Tuesday morning, though that could be delayed if lawmakers introduce amendments or take part in lengthy debate.

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By KELVIN CHAN and MATT O’BRIEN

LONDON (AP) — Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry.

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Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written decision from the judge expected at a later date.

Stability, based in London, owns a widely used AI image-making tool that sparked enthusiasm for the instant creation of AI artwork and photorealistic images upon its release in August 2022. OpenAI introduced its surprise hit chatbot ChatGPT three months later.

Seattle-based Getty has argued that the development of the AI image maker, called Stable Diffusion, involved “brazen infringement” of Getty’s photography collection “on a staggering scale.”

Tech companies have long argued that “fair use” or “fair dealing” legal doctrines in the United States and United Kingdom allow them to train their AI systems on large troves of writings or images. Getty was among the first to challenge those practices when it filed copyright infringement lawsuits in the United States and the United Kingdom in early 2023.

“What Stability did was inappropriate,” Getty CEO Craig Peters told The Associated Press in 2023. He said creators of intellectual property should be asked for permission before their works are fed into AI systems rather than having to participate in an “opt-out regime.”

Getty’s legal team told the court Monday that the case isn’t a battle between the creative and technology industries and that the two can still work together in “synergistic harmony” because licensing creative works is critical to AI’s success.

“The problem is when AI companies such as Stability AI want to use those works without payment,” Getty’s trial lawyer, Lindsay Lane, said.

She said the case was about “straightforward enforcement of intellectual property rights,” including copyright, trademark and database rights.

Getty Images “recognizes that the AI industry is a force for good but that doesn’t justify those developing AI models to ride roughshod over intellectual property rights,” Lane said.

Stability AI had a “voracious appetite” for images to train its AI model, but was “completely indifferent to the nature of those works,” Lane said.

Stability didn’t care if images were protected by copyright, had watermarks, were not safe for work or were pornographic — it just wanted to get its model to the market as soon as possible, Lane said.

“This trial is the day of reckoning for that approach,” she said.

Stability lawyers are expected to make their opening arguments Tuesday. They say in a prepared written argument that Getty’s claims “represent an overt threat to Stability’s whole business, and the wider generative AI industry.”

Stability has argued that the case doesn’t belong in the United Kingdom because the training of the AI model technically happened elsewhere, on computers run by U.S. tech giant Amazon. The company also argues that “only a tiny proportion” of the random outputs of its AI image-generator “look at all similar” to Getty’s works.

Once the trial concludes later this month, the judge’s decision is unlikely to give the AI industry what it most wants, which is expanded copyright exemptions for AI training, said Ben Milloy, a senior associate at UK law firm Fladgate, which is not involved in the case.

But it could “strengthen the hand of either party – rights holders or AI developers – in the context of the commercial negotiations for content licensing deals that are currently playing out worldwide,” Milloy said.

Similar cases in the U.S. have not yet gone to trial.

In the years after introducing its open-source technology, Stability confronted challenges in capitalizing on the popularity of the tool, battling lawsuits, misuse and other business problems.

Stable Diffusion’s roots trace back to Germany, where computer scientists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich worked with the New York-based tech company Runway to develop the original algorithms. The university researchers credited Stability AI for providing the servers that trained the models, which require large amounts of computing power.

Stability later blamed Runway for releasing an early version of Stable Diffusion that was used to produce abusive sexual images, but also said it would have exclusive control of more recent versions of the AI model.

Stability last year announced what it described as a “significant” infusion of money from new investors including Facebook’s former president Sean Parker, who is now chair of Stability’s board. Parker has experience in intellectual property disputes as the co-founder of online music company Napster, which temporarily shuttered in the early 2000s after the record industry and popular rock band Metallica sued over copyright violations.

Hollywood director James Cameron, whose films include “Titanic” and “Avatar” is also a Stability board member.

The new investments came after Stability’s founding CEO Emad Mostaque quit and several top researchers left to form a new German startup, Black Forest Labs, which makes a competing AI image generator.

O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.

By JACK BROOK

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities arrested a former New Orleans jail employee on Monday and accused her of aiding in the 10-inmate breakout at the facility last month, which included an escape by her boyfriend — a convicted murderer.

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The former jail employee, Darriana Burton, 28, is one of at least 16 people arrested and accused of aiding the escape of the inmates on May 16. Authorities said only two remain at large: her boyfriend, Derrick Groves, and Antoine Massey, who is facing charges of rape, kidnapping and domestic battery.

The group of inmates escaped by yanking open a faulty cell door, removing a toilet, crawling through a hole and scaling a barbed wire fence in the early morning hours when a lone guard left to get food.

Two days before the escape, Groves made a FaceTime video call to Burton using a jail-issued iPad. During that call, she helped him speak with a man who police did not identify. The conversation was “intentionally vague” and appeared to coordinate communication on other, unmonitored lines, according to a police affidavit for Burton’s arrest.

In another call shortly after, the same man warned Groves against escaping, saying it would be a “bad move” that would trigger a manhunt. He told Groves to seek release via the judicial system.

The exchange showed Burton’s direct role in helping with Groves’ escape, according to the arrest affidavit.

This image provided by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office shows former jail employee, Darriana Burton, 28, who was arrested on felony charge of conspiracy to commit simple escape, Monday, June 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (Louisiana Attorney General’s Office via AP)

Burton faces a felony charge for conspiracy to commit simple escape.

According to other police reports, Burton also allegedly “picked up” and transported another fugitive, Lenton Vanburen, to a relative’s home during his escape.

Burton began working at the jail in 2022 and was fired the following year after she was arrested on allegations of bringing a folding knife and a bag of Cheetos containing tobacco and marijuana into the jail. The charges were dropped in part due to her lack of criminal history, and she “successfully completed” a pretrial diversion program, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office told The Associated Press.

“I categorically deny any involvement in introducing contraband into the jail or assisting in any escape,” Burton said May 30 in a text message to The Associated Press. “These allegations are false and I intend to fully defend myself through the proper legal channels.”

Agents with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service coordinated Burton’s arrest after obtaining a warrant on May 27. She was taken into custody in the Plaquemines Parish jail, authorities said.

FILE – A Louisiana state police SWAT member works the scene on Iberville Street as police pursue a fugitive that escaped from a New Orleans jail, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Burton and Groves “were in an on-again, off-again relationship for three years,” dating back to the time when she was still working in the jail, authorities said.

“We will continue to pursue anyone and everyone who has aided and abetted these criminals. We will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you to the full extent of the law,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement. “We will arrest all aiders and abettors, and we will eventually get Antoine Massey and Derrick Groves back to prison where they belong.”

Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.