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Photographer Captures NYC Lives Amid Affordable Housing Crisis

3/22/2026

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Gail Albert Halaban, a photographer, moved to New York in 2004 and has spent more than 20 years on her project Out My Window.
The project documents city residents through apartment windows and fosters community engagement.
Recently, she photographed New Yorkers in ten apartment buildings for a New York Times Magazine article about tenant–landlord tensions and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plans to address affordable housing.

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Story summary

Gail Albert Halaban, a photographer, moved to New York in 2004 and has spent more than 20 years on her project Out My Window.
The project documents city residents through apartment windows and fosters community engagement.
Recently, she photographed New Yorkers in ten apartment buildings for a New York Times Magazine article about tenant–landlord tensions and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plans to address affordable housing.