By Bruce Cory | Center for New York City Affairs Last month, the administration of Mayor Eric Adams at long last scuttled its ill-considered $432 million no-bid contract for asylee services with a questionably qualified provider whose performance left a great deal to be desired. The question now is: Could the administration be open to […]
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 […]
Caribbean Week Spokesperson Rosa Harris. Credit: One Caribbean. NEW YORK, NY: The much-awaited Caribbean Week, hosted by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), is scheduled to light up New York City from June 16-21, 2024. This event, a highlight on the calendar for travel industry professionals and enthusiasts alike, will be held at the InterContinental New […]
Editorial credit: Roy De La Cruz / Shutterstock.com By Arya Sundaram | Gothamist Inside a Midtown church-turned-migrant help center, volunteer Alexia Sol has recently begun handing out a new form: a “record of daily activities.” The migrants are meant to use the form to track their efforts to leave the shelter system — in hopes that […]
By Tom Eschen | CBS 6 Albany News Albany — With just weeks left in the 2024 legislative session, there are two bills with two very different perspectives in play at the New York State Capitol, both centering around immigrants, law enforcement and federal immigration services. This comes as asylum seekers are pushing lawmakers to do […]
City Hall, NY – Today, Local Law 151 of 2023 went into effect, reducing fines for small businesses and allowing them to resolve certain violations before being penalized, while eliminating certain unnecessary requirements for commercial establishments. The law, sponsored by Council Member Julie Menin, was passed by the New York City Council in November 2023 and signed into law later that month. The […]
By Patrick Spauster | City Limits Starlite Harris lived in eight different New York City homeless shelters between 2021 and 2022, thanks to a series of transfers and health crises that required hospitalization. “It’s more exhausting than it sounds,” Harris said. Eventually, she received a rental voucher and found an apartment that accepted it in Williamsburg. […]
By Jose Martinez When Albany lawmakers last month passed “Sammy’s Law” — allowing the city to lower the speed limit to 20 mph on some roads — safe-streets advocates celebrated a victory that was years in the making. Named for 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein, who was fatally struck by a van in October 2012 while retrieving a […]
Federal Policies Still Weighing on City’s Labor Force The size of New York City’s immigrant workforce was flat over nearly a decade, according to a new report from New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Through 2023, the foreign-born labor market grew 18.5% since 2015 nationally, while New York City’s declined 0.6%, according to data analyzed from […]
A mop buckets sits at the 8th Avenue L train terminus, Feb. 21, 2024. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Jose Martinez | February 22, 2024 Contractors paid big bucks by the MTA to bring in subway car cleaners during the pandemic are accused of stiffing close to 400 workers of more than $2.5 million, a pair of […]