By Ethan Geringer-Sameth, May 01, 2022 

City Council Member Gale Brewer, a Democrat and the former Manhattan Borough President, said the CEC’s mandate to provide consultants was “duplicative” of existing borough presidents’ and nonprofit efforts and worried about the potential for influence from City Hall.

“We did the MWBE directory, that’s the only thing we’ve done to date,”

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“He said he and other bodega owners can’t compete with that. According to data compiled by BetaNYC, there are 115 of these delivery store locations across the boroughs; companies like GETIR, JOKR, GOPUFF — offering ultrafast delivery service to customers.
Council Member Gale Brewer calls them warehouses and she doesn’t believe they’re legal. 
“I want an answer, are they legal or not?

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Read more: https://www.gothamgazette.com/city/11190-city-council-nyc-workforce-development-mayor-adams

The New York City Council convened an oversight hearing Monday on the city’s workforce development programs and plans amid pandemic recovery efforts. It was the first time Council members heard from officials in the administration of the new mayor, Eric Adams, who has repeatedly said workforce development is a top priority for him.

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“Three months after being nominated to her post by Mayor Adams, the new commissioner for the city’s Department of Investigation demanded Tuesday that his budget provide her agency with more funding to make improvements toward fulfilling its mission.

Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber, who was nominated in December to head DOI by Adams, made the ask Tuesday morning during one of a series of ongoing City Council hearings focused on Adams’ proposed budget for the 2023 fiscal year.

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“Yellow and blue signs, banners and homemade flags — some larger than those who held them — crowded the schoolyard at P.S. 145, the Bloomingdale School, after classes let out on March 7. They proclaimed a desire for peace, not war, and expressed solidarity with Ukraine. The young students behind the signs were hardly removed from the Russian invasion that has unfolded with shocking speed and severity abroad.

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The City Council will probe how monitors and special masters overseeing city agencies ordered to fix high-stakes failures are doing their jobs – and whether they’re stretching out the work to make a fortune off taxpayers.

Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) said she was “very disturbed” after reading a Sunday Post report exposing how the city has forked over at least $111 million 

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“I’ve been getting complaints about these things for 15 years, and you can see why,” said Brewer. “They’re flying constantly.”

“Her gripes are shared by thousands of New Yorkers, who filed 21,620 complaints about helicopter noise to 311 in 2021, more than double the 10,359 filed in 2020.

And 2020′s figure was triple the 3,332 chopper noise complaints filed in 2019, city data show.

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City Councilwoman Gale Brewer demanded Wednesday that Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul start cracking down on high-speed, app-based delivery services like JOKR, Buyk and Fridge — businesses she claims are violating the city’s zoning laws and possibly state liquor license requirements.

The so-called dark stores, many of which promise delivery within 15 minutes, occupy spaces zoned by the city for commercial use, but, according to Brewer, they essentially serve as warehouses where the services store their products and dispatch their delivery workers from.

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