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District 2

Carlina Rivera

Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, East Village, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Gramercy, Murray Hill-Kips Bay

by Rachel Vick, published December 14, 2022

Appearing before the City Council’s Committee on Criminal Justice on Tuesday, Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina said that he was unsure if the city would be able to close Rikers Island by 2027 as required by city law.

Citing the jail’s high population – and his expectation that it will continue to rise in the coming years – Molina suggested that moving to borough-based jails with lower capacities is unlikely.

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By Amelia Pollard, Tiffany Kary, and Gregory Korte, published December 12, 2022

“New York regulators and law enforcement are starting to crack down on an onslaught of illicit pot sellers exploiting the run-up to the state’s first recreational marijuana sales.

Scores of so-called weed bodegas have popped up in storefronts across the city hawking pre-rolled joints, edibles and gummies that tout cannabis’ psychoactive ingredient THC.

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by Andrea Marks, published 11/26

“WHILE KERI BLAKINGER was incarcerated, she papered her cell walls with pictures her romantic partner drew for her. “I was dating someone who liked drawing things instead of using words, and having those drawings and being able to look at them and put them on the cell wall — that was all meaningful,” says Blakinger, a journalist whose 2022 memoir Corrections In Ink chronicles her heroin addiction and 21 months behind bars.

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NEW YORK – Just in time for the holiday season, New York City is rolling out its largest-ever Open Streets plan.

For the first time in half a century, part of Fifth Avenue will be car-free.

As CBS2’s Dick Brennan reports, the holiday season has hit Midtown, and it’s beginning to look a lot like gridlock, both in the streets and on the sidewalks.

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November 22, 2022 by Emily Davenport

The testing lab that found arsenic in the water at the Riis Houses may have retracted its findings, but that’s cold comfort for the building’s residents, who have a massive backlog of other problems. 

Nor residents at Wald Houses or Baruch Houses — other New York Housing Authority complexes located on the Lower East Side waterfront in Councilmember Carlina Rivera’s district.

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November 22, 2022 by Carlina Rivera

The City Council has not advanced the legislation to make the city’s temporary, Covid-era outdoor dining program permanent. We’ve covered the issue extensively, and now Council Member Carlina Rivera (D-East Village) is demanding a better process. Here’s her op-ed piece, exclusively for Streetsblog.

We are at an inflection point on outdoor dining, and as we consider its next phase, we have an opportunity to create an enduring program for restaurants and communities to thrive together.

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by Reuven Blau, published November 4, 2022

The city Department of Correction recently revealed it is moving to a digitized mail and package delivery system meant to curb contraband. Inmate advocates caution the switch will trample privacy rights — and that two other states that made similar changes have seen no decrease in overdoses or drug seizures. 

At an oversight hearing last week, DOC Commissioner Louis A.

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por NY1, Actualizado 03 Noviembre 2022

“El dueño de casa nos quiere desalojar”, dijo la inquilina Miriam Andrade.

Desde hace 22 años, Andrade, ecuatoriana de 50 años, vive en un edificio en Brooklyn y dice que su casero la quiere desalojar, algo que le parece ilógico e inhumano ya que asegura hay unidades vacías.

“Que somos familias que tenemos niños, que ¿adónde nos vamos a ir a vivir?, a lo menos a mí me tocara ir a vivir debajo de un puente porque yo no tengo donde.

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