“Trees cross party lines and geographic lines. They are the great uniter,” said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, who with his fellow borough presidents is pushing City Hall to commit to funding the additional plantings in the sustainability plan the administration will publish in April.
La palabra “inmigración” solo se mencionó una sola vez en el discurso, cuando dijo “Y unámonos también en cuanto a la inmigración. Hagámoslo un asunto bipartidista como solía serlo”.
The length of time it takes NYCHA to rent out available apartments has climbed in recent years, one of many factors exacerbating the city’s affordable housing crisis, lawmakers say. “They just say it’s not ready,” said one resident currently living in a homeless shelter who has been waiting more than 10 months to move into the NYCHA unit she was approved for.
Hasta el mes pasado, el Estado de Nueva York había repartido algo más de $2 millones de los $27 millones de dólares reservados para el fondo de ayuda, según datos recientes compartidos con City Limits. En total, 405 de los 554 neoyorquinos que lo aplicaron han sido aprobados, y 352 han recibido la ayuda.
“With the mask mandate lifted, Access-A-Ride users face the unimaginable choice between risking their lives to simply get where they need to get or going back to isolating themselves in their homes.”
“Cutting corners by slashing social service programs will only force New Yorkers to stay homeless longer, reduce their chances of finding permanent housing, and ultimately cost the city more taxpayer dollars to warehouse people in inhumane shelters.”
The nonprofit newsroom expands staff to support its in-depth reporting on New York City housing issues, and launches a new beat focused exclusively on NYCHA.
In April 2015, Diana Florence was a longtime prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office thinking about retirement. But a phone call—about the death of an immigrant laborer at a building site—changed her plans. And it went on to upend how New York State addresses construction fatalities.
Una plantilla de solo 302 personas cuida una plantación de más de 865.000 árboles en toda la ciudad. El presupuesto preliminar de Adams pretende recortar $46 millones de dólares del Departamento de Parques, lo que los ecologistas temen que suponga un paso atrás en la promesa del alcalde de mantener vivas y en crecimiento los árboles de Nueva York.
Durante semanas, City Limits ha hablado con personas en dos de los centros humanitarios de emergencias humanitarias y socorro (HERRC por sus siglas en inglés) de la ciudad: uno en el Hotel ROW y otro en el Hotel Watson de Manhattan, donde recientemente se trasladó a hombres adultos a un centro de acogida en la Terminal de Cruceros de Brooklyn, en Red Hook.
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