COVID-19
The Check In: NYC’s Vaccine Challenges
Jeanmarie Evelly |
In this week’s podcast episode, Managing Editor Jeanmarie Evelly talks with COVID-19 reporter Nicole Javorsky about the latest with New York’s vaccination efforts.
Affordable Housing
Opinion: It’s Time to End Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. Here Are Some Alternatives
Lynn Ellsworth |
‘The fact is that MIH is just bad policy. In New York City’s housing market, it mostly enriches developers and real estate speculators while inflicting real harm to the neighborhoods it’s supposed to help.’
Art at the Limits
City’s Latino Artists Disproportionately Impacted By the Pandemic
Daniel Parra |
Latino artists report lower rates of health insurance, greater economic losses and higher unemployment. A higher number of them have seen their health or their family’s health directly impacted by COVID-19.
Housing New York
A Look at the City’s ‘Blueprint’ Plan to Address Decades of Housing Inequities
Sadef Ali Kully |
The “Where We Live” report, released by HPD, outlines the city’s plans to create more equitable housing and capital investments by the year 2050 and further its Fair Housing goals.
COVID-19
Election Day Photos: At the Polls in a Pandemic
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Photos from the 2018 midterm elections just two years ago contain scenes glaringly missing from Tuesday: crowded poll sites, tightly packed voter lines and candidates hugging at celebration parties, to name a few. In 2020, voting meant a lot more hand sanitizer, face masks and waiting outside.
Podcast: ¿Cuáles son las implicaciones en las elecciones luego de que el presidente Trump diera positivo?
Daniel Parra |
¿Qué significa cuando el tema principal en una elección presidencial es un virus, y es un virus que tiene el presidente?
Health and Environment
The Other Communicable Diseases —Besides Coronavirus—That Call NYC Home
Madison Garrett, Karla Munoz, Muna Saed, Rainier Harris and Jeanmarie Evelly |
The city’s Health Department has been monitoring a number of sources for potential communicable diseases outbreaks for more than 20 years. Here are some of the illnesses, other than COVID-19, that have seen recent upticks in New York.
El plazo para el alivio de la renta de COVID-19 se reabre en medio de las críticas
Jarrett Murphy |
El plazo para el envío de solicitudes al fondo de ayuda estatal de $100 millones para inquilinos afectados por COVID-19 cerró el jueves, 30 de julio, pero la administración de Cuomo anunció el viernes que reabriría por una semana adicional, hasta el 6 de agosto.
black lives matter
Why ‘Black Lives Matter’ to NYC’s Latino Police-Reform Marchers
Daniel Parra |
‘To understand this, we have to think about the history of this relationship between African Americans and Latinos. Both communities have faced the same economic problems and have lived in the same neighborhoods.’
In Depth
When Labs Go Online: For Some College Majors, Remote Learning Means Extra Hurdles
Mykel Barrett, Nuha Dolby and Jeanmarie Evelly |
Classes for certain college majors, the move to remove learning has been especially jarring, as science labs and acting workshops don’t translate so easily to Zoom.
