By Anastasia Tomkin, City Limits Originally published here. While city officials cited the importance of restrooms for all residents of the city, highlighting the needs of young children and older New Yorkers, homeless people also rely heavily on public bathrooms, but face particular difficulty in accessing them, experts and advocates say. Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement […]
By Julian Shen-Berro, Chalkbeat New York This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters More than a decade ago, Principal Joseph Mattina noticed students at P.S. 23 Carter G. Woodson were consistently arriving at the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, elementary school without their uniforms. Initially, Mattina grew frustrated with the students, asking why […]
