CITY HALL, NY — Council Member Francisco Moya on Thursday introduced legislation that would require the city to study the effect of neighborhood-wide rezonings on secondary displacement.

“With every neighborhood-wide rezoning, the future for thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are thrown into uncertainty,” Council Member Francisco Moya said. “The long-term residents in East Harlem and Inwood or along Jerome Avenue — the very curators of their community’s character — are being forced out of their homes as their neighborhoods become primed for new development.

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CITY HALL, NY — Council Member Francisco Moya issued the following statement on Thursday after Amazon announced it had canceled plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City:

“A giant fell today. We just witnessed tenacious grassroots organizing topple a corporate Goliath,” Council Member Francisco Moya said. “There are some that will clamor about the loss of jobs that don’t exist yet.

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CITY HALL, NY — On Thursday, the New York City Council unanimously passed Council Member Francisco Moya’s bill to protect drivers from predatory for-hire vehicle lease, rental or purchase agreements to the full Council and establish a “Driver’s Bill of Rights.”

The legislation, Int. 1070-a, allows the Taxi and Limousine Commission authority to require clear and unambiguous disclosure of rules with respect to leasing, rental, lease-to-own and conditional purchases.

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Council Member Moya applauds For-Hire Vehicles Committee for unanimous vote to advance his driver’s Bill of Rights measure.

CITY HALL, NY — On Tuesday, the City Council’s Committee on For-Hire Vehicles unanimously voted to advance Council Member Francisco Moya’s bill to protect drivers from predatory for-hire vehicle lease, rental or purchase agreements to the full Council.

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CORONA, NY — Council Member Francisco Moya issued the following statement regarding the untimely death of New York State Senator Jose Peralta:

“I am heartbroken and shaken over the tragic news of Senator Jose Peralta’s untimely death. The communities we served together, our colleagues, all of Queens and I are joined in grief today.

“In private, Senator Peralta often had a gentle demeanor.

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Manhattan Borough President and Queens Council Member introduce resolution calling on FCC to reject new limits on local cable franchise agreements.

NEW YORK – On Wednesday, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer and City Council Member Francisco Moya condemned the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to limit local governments’ ability to use cable franchise agreements to benefit local public, educational, and governmental (“PEG”) cable access channels, and introduced a City Council resolution at this week’s Stated Council Meeting calling on the Federal Communications Commission to reject the proposed rules.

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Video byCity Council photographer Wiliam Alatriste

For P.S. 19’s Appreciation Day, little Larry Mendoza created an uncanny miniature model of his Council Member, Francisco Moya

CORONA, NY — On Wednesday morning, Council Member Francisco Moya visited the 2E1 class at P.S. 19Q Marino Jeantet and awarded 7-year-old Larry Mendoza a citation for his “Appreciation Day” school project: A report on Council Member Moya accompanied by an uncanny model of the local elected official that stands about one foot tall.

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CORONA, NY — Police discovered 64-year-old Oswaldo Gomez, known to New York City and her Jackson Heights community as the impenetrably cheerful Ms. Colombia, dead on Wednesday morning at Jacob Riis Park. Police do not suspect foul play and the investigation remains ongoing.

“Ms. Colombia brought life and character to Jackson Heights,” Council Member Francisco Moya said.

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