Documented — Led by Council Member Harvey Epstein, the initiative would distribute $5 million to grassroots organizations for workers’ rights programming.
City & State — Progressive New York City Council members are backing the state Legislature’s push to raise the city’s corporate tax rate.
StreetsBlog — Mayor Mamdani’s preliminary budget falls short of providing the resources necessary to fully enforce delivery worker protection regulations passed by the City Council last year, the city’s top consumer regulator conceded on Thursday.
City & State — More than 60 state and city elected officials sent a letter to top New York University leaders on Friday, urging them to avert a looming work stoppage by giving the union representing the institution’s contract faculty a “fair agreement.”
The letter, which was sent to NYU President Linda Mills, was organized by Democratic New York City Council Member Harvey Epstein.
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New York Daily News — New Yorkers, like the rest of the country, are struggling under an affordability crisis. Rent, utilities, food, prescriptions, and other necessities are increasingly out of reach. That’s why it’s especially important that workers receive the pay they have earned, and when companies price gouge or charge exorbitant junk fees, they are held accountable.
WNYC — Councilmember Harvey Epstein, who represents parts of Midtown and Lower Manhattan and will help lead this caucus, talked with WNYC’s Sean Carlson more about the new caucus.
Our Town — “Pets are family,” the duo posted on Facebook. “That’s why the Council is forming its first-ever Animal Welfare Caucus: to make pet ownership more affordable and build a more compassionate city for every New Yorker, whether they have two legs or four.”
PoliticsNY –– Inside Government is a Q&A series that gives New Yorkers a glimpse inside the role of the elected officials who represent them. This edition of Inside Government with PoliticsNY, sponsored by AARP New York City, features New York City Council Member Harvey Epstein. Council Member Epstein represents the Second Council District in Manhattan which includes Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, the East Village, Union Square, Gramercy and Murray Hill.
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PoliticsNY — What we do impacts whether we have an affordable New York. Our office impacts daily life by helping build affordable housing, passing local laws that are responsive to the needs of our constituents, working with city agencies, helping secure funding for local community organizations, negotiating the city budget and working every day to address the needs of our constituents.
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EV Grieve — The Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing today at 3:30 p.m. on a proposal to build a 220-foot-tall, 228-foot-wide apartment building on the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Streets in the NoHo Historic District Extension.