By Chris Welch, February 29, 2024
NEW YORK – Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh says this first-in-the-nation program will “literally” save lives.
City officials today unveiled the first of five public e-battery charging locations to be installed in New York City. The first is now up in Cooper Square in the East Village.
“This is such an important moment,”
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By Naeisha Rose, published February 29, 2024
“There is no New York City without our cultural institutions,” said City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Coalition of Theatres of Color Initiative at Black Spectrum Theatre in St. Albans last Thursday. “We will shout that from the roofs.”
Councilwoman Carlina Rivera (D-Manhattan), the newly appointed chair of Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations, said the arts are not just important to the survival of people, they also are essential to the city’s economy and a unifying force.
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By Dan Rivoli, published February 26, 2024
The leaders of the city’s three public library systems testified to the City Council about their efforts to fight restrictions to certain books in school, libraries and curricula around the country.
“We provide regular banned book clubs and a writing contest and offer copies online, and in print, but online, to anyone in the country, especially those in the states that have seen the lead of these book bannings,” Anthony Marx, president of the New York Public Library, told councilmembers.
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By Christina Fan, published February 26, 2024
NEW YORK — New York City’s public libraries are leading a push to increase access to books that are being banned in other cities.
As book ban attempts increase nationwide, the city’s libraries have been fighting against censorship. Now, a City Council hearing will focus on their efforts.
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By Ethan Stark-Miller, published February 21, 2024
The City Council is moving to join the Legal Aid Society’s recently filed class action lawsuit against Mayor Eric Adams’ administration over its refusal to enact a series of laws expanding access to housing vouchers.
The council filed a motion to intervene in the Legal Aid suit —
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By Chris Sommerfeldt, published February 21, 2024
The City Council moved Wednesday to join a lawsuit that seeks to force Mayor Adams to implement a set of laws designed to make it easier for low-income New Yorkers to access the city’s rental assistance program.
The Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit was first filed last week by four New Yorkers at risk of homelessness who’d become eligible for the voucher program,
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By Emma Whitford, published February 21, 2024
The New York City Council is jumping into the ring.
In a motion set to be filed Wednesday in state court, the legislative body requests to join a recently-filed lawsuit against Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, seeking to compel implementation of several laws aimed at expanding city rental voucher eligibility.
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By Jacqueline Neber, published February 9, 2024
“City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera introduced two resolutions Thursday that call on the Mount Sinai health system to keep the Beth Israel hospital open and urge the state health department to prevent Sinai from shuttering the 16th street campus.
Rivera, who introduced the resolutions at a full Council meeting, told Crain’s the legislation is an effort to “slow down” and hopefully halt the process of the closure.
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By Kelly Mena, published February 7, 2024
“Trying to improve the city’s approach to the ongoing migrant crisis, local lawmakers on Thursday will consider launching an economic and health care survey of asylum seekers.
City Councilmember Carlina Rivera, who is introducing the legislation, said the two bills are meant to better understand the roughly 175,000 migrants who have arrived in the city over the last two years, nearly 67,000 of whom are in the city’s care.
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By Chris Sommerfeldt, published January 31, 2024
New York City’s public libraries saw large spikes in visitors and social program participation in the months before Mayor Adams’ budget cuts prompted them to eliminate Sunday hours at all branches and scale back other services as well, newly released data show.
The data was tucked into
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