Bill Renaming Brooklyn Subway Stations to Honor Medgar Evers College Signed into Law

Bill Renaming Brooklyn Subway Stations to Honor Medgar Evers College Signed into Law

Franklin Avenue – Medgar Evers College and President Street – Medgar Evers College   Brooklyn, New York – Assemblymember Richardson (D-Brooklyn) announced that a bill she authored to change the names of the MTA’s Franklin Avenue and President Street stops to Medgar Evers College subway stations has been signed into law (A.1512A/ Chp. 669).   “I […]

Small Set Of City Hearing Officers Deluged With Special Ed Complaints

Small Set Of City Hearing Officers Deluged With Special Ed Complaints

Eliyanna Kaiser and her son have been through five hearing officer assignments since filing a complaint in July. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Alex Zimmerman and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY Thousands of unresolved special education complaints have been piled onto a small group of hearing officers charged with addressing them, adding delays to an already […]

Housing Bias Fight Carries On Case By Case While Citywide Response Waits

Housing Bias Fight Carries On Case By Case While Citywide Response Waits

A building in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where, a lawsuit says, black and white prospective tenants were treated differently. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY When the Trump administration told cities in early 2018 they no longer had to develop plans ordered by the Obama White House to combat housing segregation, New York City […]

Louima Cop Back on Public Payroll as a NYCHA Carpenter

Louima Cop Back on Public Payroll as a NYCHA Carpenter

Charles Schwarz walks into Brooklyn federal court in 2002. Photo: Robert Mecea/​AP/​Shutterstock By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY A disgraced ex-cop convicted for lying about his role in one of the most notorious acts of police brutality in NYPD history is back on the public payroll — hired by the New York City Housing Authority as […]

NYC Health + Hospitals Expands Role Of Clinical Pharmacists To Include Management Of Hypertension

NYC Health + Hospitals Expands Role Of Clinical Pharmacists To Include Management Of Hypertension

(New York, NY – December 4, 2019) NYC Health + Hospitals today announced that it has expanded the role of its clinical pharmacists to help patients manage hypertension. The public health system’s clinical pharmacists work closely with primary care teams and had previously just focused on diabetes care management.  There are more than 98,000 New Yorkers […]

Protecting Our Youth from Flavored E-Cigarettes

Protecting Our Youth from Flavored E-Cigarettes

Council Member Mark Levine, the Lead Sponsor of Intro. 1362-A (Photo Credit: Emil Cohen) In a historic move aimed at protecting the health of our city’s young people, the New York City Council voted last month to ban the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), becoming the largest municipality in the country to do so. […]

“Untouchable” Louison Busted for Immigration Fraud in Brooklyn

Arleigh Louison, who submitted over 1,800 fraudulent immigration applications indicted on 12 counts of making false statements in immigration documents

“Untouchable” Louison Busted for Immigration Fraud in Brooklyn

By Elias G. Brenda and Kathy (names changed for privacy), who spoke to Caribbean American Weekly recently, alleged that Arleigh Louison, a Grenadian national and New York resident, had defrauded them as he orchestrated a sham immigration practice in an office building located on 223rd Lenox Road, Brooklyn, adjacent to Congresswoman Yvette Clarke’s office.     Federal […]

Bronx woman ordered to stop calling 311 with complaints about horrible conditions in her subsidized housing — or risk losing her apartment

Bronx woman ordered to stop calling 311 with complaints about horrible conditions in her subsidized housing — or risk losing her apartment

Iesha Poindexter inside her three-year-old son, Ramel Huggins’s, bedroom in her apartment at 4453 White Plains Road, where she and her family have been dealing with heating and mice issues, in the Bronx, New York, Thursday, November 7, 2019. (Shawn Inglima/for New York Daily News) By Michael Gartland, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS  Keep your mouth […]