Speaker Christine Quinn

Characterizing the lack of quality, affordable housing in New York City as a “crisis,” a housing advocacy coalition is sending a message of urgency to the mayoral candidates.

Speaker Christine Quinn’s booming voice usually fills a press conference as she rattles through her agenda, and takes questions from the media with authority. But on Tuesday Quinn revealed a more personal side during a Q&A with Barnard College President Debora Spar, students, and members of the press.

City Comptroller John Liu seemed to have brought a lot of supporters to a mayoral panel Thursday night in Harlem that focused on low income New Yorkers.