“Gov. Kathy Hochul and her administration should immediately reconsider the proposed regulations targeting pharmacy benefits and refocus efforts on policies that actually improve affordability for prescription drugs—especially for minority and vulnerable populations—not make matters worse.”
The legislation introduced in the City Council last week is geared at keeping tenants in flood-prone basement apartments out of harm’s way.
Following a 30-day voting period that starts Nov. 8, Nostrand could be the first New York City Housing Authority development to join the Preservation Trust, a new public entity that can issue bonds to fund repairs. Similar votes at other NYCHA campuses are expected to take place next year.
The City Council’s resolution implores the state legislature and HUD to “take strong action and increase NYCHA accountability by auditing the responsiveness of NYCHA managers to tenants,” citing complaints from residents about work orders languishing or getting closed without an actual fix.
En los últimos meses, cientos de familias de inmigrantes recién llegados con niños han estado sujetas a límites de estadía de 28 días en hoteles, ya que la ciudad insiste en que se ha quedado sin espacio para alojarlos. El programa es independiente del anunciado por el alcalde Eric Adams el 16 de octubre, ya que su administración planea nuevos plazos para esta población, señalada desde hace tiempo como una prioridad.
Environmentalists say an Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to protect the city from coastal storms using walls and gates fails to address other climate change-related threats, like heavy rainfall.
“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.”
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