New York City tenants have been tossed out of their homes in more than 500 cases since the eviction moratorium was lifted.

The wheels of justice may turn slowly, as the often-quoted line says, but they are turning again in housing courts in New York City.

The city’s housing courts used to handle more eviction cases than similar tribunals in other cities. The pandemic changed things: New York State imposed a moratorium on evictions. Lawmakers extended it again and again, long after other state and federal eviction protections ended.

The New York moratorium finally expired in mid-January, and tenants have been thrown out of their homes in more than 500 cases since February, according to city data. My colleague Mihir Zaveri says that was about double the number from the preceding 20 months combined, going back to mid-2020, when coronavirus cases in New York were subsiding after the devastating first wave.

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