“New York City Council’s new bill banning biometric data collection in residential buildings is a strong step forward to give tenants and their guests more protections from the encroachment of their landlords and from modern surveillance technologies.”
“We were promised a lot of things, like other vendors being in here, a full kitchen through the EDC, but nothing’s really come through,” said Frances Roman, Owner of Cocotazo, a Puerto Rican restaurant that just celebrated its one-year anniversary at La Marqueta.
El periodo de inscripción inicial para los venezolanos elegibles que no tienen TPS se abrió el 3 de octubre y se extenderá hasta el 2 de abril de 2025. La gobernadora y el alcalde anunciaron financiación para ayudar a estos y otros inmigrantes recién llegados: 30 millones de dólares para servicios legales y 8 millones de dólares para la asistencia en casos. Esto es lo que sabemos.
“We are now witnessing a new generation of Latino political representatives, many of whom have arrived in the halls of government with great potential and ambition. A few of them have even been mentioned as potential opponents to the current mayor in the 2025 municipal elections.”
Hundreds of recently-arrived immigrant families with children have been subject to 28-day limits on hotel shelter stays in recent months, as the city insists it’s run out of space to lodge them. The program is separate from a broader announcement Mayor Eric Adams made Monday, as his administration plans further shelter deadlines for a population long singled out as a priority for stable placements.
The initial registration period for eligible Venezuelans who do not have TPS opened on Oct. 3 and will run through April 2, 2025. The governor and mayor recently announced funding to assist these and other newly-arrived immigrants: $30 million for legal services, and $8 million for case management. Here’s what we know.
El presidente Joe Biden prometió durante la campaña de 2020 que no construiría “ni un pie más” del muro fronterizo que separa los Estados Unidos y México, pero a principios de octubre el presidente Biden dijo que la ley le exigía continuar con la construcción.
Recycling rates around longtime existing requirements—which ask residents to separate paper, plastics, metal and glass from the rest of their trash—have failed to improve over the last decade. Getting New Yorkers to comply with yet another set of rules could be an uphill battle, experts say.
“While the federal government—and a growing number of states—are taking action to confront the dual challenges of climate change and workforce development, New York has fallen short.”
The city’s more than 300 Older Adult Centers saw an average of 24,261 daily participants during the last fiscal year that ended in June, still shy of pre-pandemic numbers but up nearly 28 percent since 2021-2022.
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