NYC electeds rally for vote on housing voucher value boost
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“Our system is sick and it’s broken, and if you’re gonna help our people this is the way.”
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NYC participatory budgeting group calls on council to revive the initiative
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“PB provides exactly what New Yorkers need right now to feel connected and empowered to create change.”
Read MoreCivic leader says Council Speaker helped drive homeless out of his district and into Lucerne Hotel
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“It was with the great help of Erik Bottcher that we were able to show a need for this shelter to be relocated.”
Read MoreCouncil will vote on bill forcing NYPD to explain surveillance strategies
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“New Yorkers deserve to know the type of surveillance that the NYPD uses and its impacts on communities.”
Read MoreCarlina Rivera calls on Council to elect woman of color as next Speaker
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“I’m hoping that the next speaker is a woman, and specifically a woman of color.”
Read More‘Overworked and underpaid’ council staffers want a living wage
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“I wish I was the only one going through this, but it’s throughout the council.”
Read MoreDromm backs Johnson's presumptive run for mayor
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“26 years ago…I never would have imagined we would be ready to elect an openly gay and HIV+ man as mayor.”
Read MoreSmall business advocates continue 33-year fight for rent protections
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“Landlords are denying lease renewals and those are the reasons we are seeing good businesses getting pushed out.”
Read MoreICE agents are preventing immigrants from coming to court, report finds
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“This report documents in painstaking detail the calculated effect of federal interference in our state court system, disrupting our ability as a city to administer justice.”
Read MoreStaffer accuses Grodenchik of sexual harassment
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“No one should ever be made to feel uncomfortable in the workplace and singled out for unwanted attention.”
Read More‘I’m the Victim’ — Facing Pressure to Resign, Diaz Sr. Doubles Down on Homophobic Comments
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“If anyone deserves an apology here it’s me. I mean I’m the one being bullied.”
Read MoreNew Law Recognizes Third Gender on NYC Birth Certificates
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Starting Jan. 1, 2019, New York City birth certificates will feature a third gender category — gender X — for the first time.
Read MoreMiddle Village Man Busted For Bloody Homophobic Attack
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Cops have arrested a Middle Village man suspected of beating two gay men unconscious as they left a bar in Williamsburg, the NYPD reported on Wednesday.
Read MoreLancman, Johnson Bills Require Bail Bond Transparency
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On Wednesday, the City Council passed two measures that would require the city’s bail bond companies to fully disclose all bail bond fees as well as a consumers’ Bill of Rights.
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