By CAW Editorial Staff New York City Council Member Rita Joseph was elected in 2021 to represent Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Ditmas Park, and Southern Crown Heights. Before serving in the City Council, Ms. Joseph was a public school teacher, a community activist, and a proud union member. People, Power & Politics (PPP) chatted […]
Installed more than 60 years ago as a symbol of hope and unity in the hemisphere, medallions had fallen into disrepair, with only 18 original medallions remaining. Under Adams Administration, creating new, safe and up-to-date signage along Sixth Avenue was a priority.
DOT Commissioner Rodriquez and other officials speaking at the Restoration of National Medallions along the Avenue of the Americas | Photo Courtesy: DOT New York — In commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month, NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro and Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Commissioner Edward Mermelstein […]
New York, NY – September 19, 2022: Mayor Eric Adams delivers keynote remarks at the opening of Concordia annual summit at Sheraton Times Square. (Shutterstock) Mayor Eric Adams: My fellow New Yorkers, we are in a crisis situation. New York City now has more than 61,000 people in our shelter system. That includes thousands of […]
Urge Administration to consider indoor locations and focus on expediting transitions from homeless shelters into permanent housing by eliminating bureaucracy and expanding supportive housing.
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 17: New York City Council’s Speaker Adrienne Adams speaks during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Harlem on January 17, 2022 in New York City. (Shutterstock) City Hall, NY – Speaker Adrienne Adams, Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala, and the chair and members of the Council’s Immigration Committee expressed major […]
New York, NY / USA – December 17 2018: Stuyvesant High School. The most selective of the specialized high schools in the NYC public school system. (Shutterstock) By Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat For many New York City parents, the move during the pandemic to virtual school board meetings meant they could attend without having to scramble […]
AG James Leads Coalition Pushing to Protect NYC Law Requiring Just Cause to Fire Workers at Fast-Food Restaurants
New York, NY – August 23, 2022: New York State AG Letitia James casts her vote in Democratic primaries at P.S. 11 School. (Shutterstock) NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James continued her efforts to stand up for workers’ rights, leading a coalition of 15 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief to […]
Monday’s chaotic meetings ended with the party leader winning with just 23 of 44 executive committee votes.
By George Joseph and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY Brooklyn Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn secured reelection as party boss with a narrow victory in a closed executive session, after a day of heated public deliberations marred by allegations of “ghost” appointments to the County Committee of people with no idea they’d been added. In a packed […]
Bureau of Labor Law recoups unpaid wages with interest for workers regardless of their immigration status, whether or not they still live in New York City.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander speaks in support of Immigrant Workers During May Day Parade at Washington Square Park in New York City on May 1, 2022. (Shutterstock) New York, NY – New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced that more than 1300 workers are entitled to payments totaling nearly $3 million from prevailing wage settlements […]
By Antonio Reynoso, Urban Matters Four years ago, I came to a challenging realization, as my wife and I were about to embark on the next exciting stage of our union: parenthood. As we were doing our research and preparing for the birth of our first son, Alejandro, we learned that my wife, an Afro-Dominican […]
New York City, New York / USA United States – 04 08 2019: Construction workers at work on a skyscraper building renovation and construction site on a scaffold. (Shutterstock) By Greg David, THE CITY In the summer of 2019, with the city’s economy booming and with tourists arriving in such numbers that a record 67 […]