Health and Environment
Parents and Developer Clash Over Mercury Cleanup Next to Seaport Schools
Liz Donovan |
The lot where the project is being planned, just feet away from two elementary schools, once was the site of a thermometer factory.
Una Ciudad sin Límites
Cambios en los centros votación de Queens; accesibilidad en Harlem
Daniel Santiago, Gustavo García, Lucy Cabrera, Sandra Lopez, Tasha Sandoval, Juan de Dios Sánchez Jurado and Jesús Chapa Malacara |
Varios votantes se mostraron sorprendidos al llegar al centro de votación en Greater Ridgewood Youth Council en Ridgewood, Queens, y recibir la noticia de que debían votar en otro lugar cuando anteriormente habían votado allí.
NYC council elections
NYC General Election Day: Updates From Across the Boroughs
Jeanmarie Evelly, David Brand, Adi Talwar and Liz Donovan |
New York City will choose its next mayor on Tuesday. Check here throughout the day for developments in the 2021 election.
Health and Environment
NY Decriminalizes Syringe Possession as Part of Overdose Prevention Efforts
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of bills that aim to combat substance-use disorders, including one that will bring medication assisted treatment to prisons and jails across the state and another to decriminalizes the possession and sale of hypodermic needles.
Organizing
The Latinos and Immigrants Who Occupied Wall Street, 10 Years Later
Daniel Parra |
What was the role of Latinos and immigrants during Occupy Wall Street? What role did immigration issues play as part of the demands of the occupiers? Participants, scholars, and journalists reconstruct the influence of Latinos and immigrants on Occupy.
Voices of New York
Washington Heights and Inwood See Population Dip, Uptick in White Residents, 2020 Census Shows
Fernando Martínez for El Diario |
More than 17,000 Hispanic residents left Washington Heights and Inwood between 2010 and 2020, while a total of 4,824 white residents moved into both neighborhoods during the same period, El Diario reports.
Housing and Homelessness
Formerly Homeless Families in Harlem Still Without Gas or Hot Water, as Cold Weather Returns
David Brand |
Con Edison cut the gas to the West 145th Street building—a former cluster site shelter housing dozens of formerly homeless families—on May 14, after inspectors found dangerous corrosion on the line leading to the street. Tenants are still waiting.
Una Ciudad sin Límites
Los latinos e inmigrantes que ocuparon Wall Street, 10 años después
Daniel Parra |
¿Cuál fue el rol de los latinos e inmigrantes durante el Ocupa Walls Street? ¿Cómo el tema de inmigración se sumó a las demandas de los ocupantes de Wall Street? Participantes, académicos y periodistas reconstruyen la influencia de los latinos y los inmigrantes en la ocupación.
city contracts
NYC Cutting Ties with Troubled Homeless Services Provider Aguila, Inc.
David Brand |
The city’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) said it will stop contracting with Aguila to run the men’s shelter inside the Park View Hotel on West 110th St., across the street from Central Park, by the end of the year as it seeks to weed out inadequate providers.
Election 2021
Manhattan Dems Pick Cordell Cleare to Replace Brian Benjamin in Harlem Senate Race
Ese Olumhense |
“The Manhattan Democratic Party is proud to support the selection by the 30th Senate District Committee of Cordell Cleare as their Democratic Nominee for the New York State Senate,” the party said in a Saturday evening release.
