I thank and applaud the manager of WAPA and the host of Super Xclusivo for their public statements of apology. Words matter. By apologizing publicly and taking steps to prevent future homophobic language on the air, they have sent a message that bigotry has no place on or off the airwaves. I thank Congresswoman Velasaquez, NYC Council Members Mark-Viverito, Mendez, Dromm and Van Bramer for their leadership on this issue.
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I am truly moved by President Obama’s order to widen medical rights for same-sex partners across America. I thank and applaud him for this moral, principled action. I am comforted to know that if my partner and I should travel in a part of the country where our relationship is not recognized, we will have additional medical rights in the event of an emergency.
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Proposed Food Market Will Create Jobs and Support Local Businesses
New York, April 15th, 2010 – City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Council Members Chin and Thomas White, advocates from the food industry and community leaders today stood together to show their support for the redevelopment of the Fulton Fish Market area as a place to host a brand new market for local businesses and regional foods.
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The Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) will vote next week on a proposal by the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to temporarily move The Clinton School for Writers and Artists (Clinton) to The American Sign Language Building (M047). We are announcing today our support for this proposal.
This move was precipitated by persistent and increasing overcrowding that has taken place at 320 West 21st Street, which currently houses both PS 11 and Clinton.
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“The act of hate demonstrated outside the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in the Village is unacceptable,” said Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn. “I was angered and deeply disturbed when I heard someone would go to such great lengths to burn a rainbow flag and pin it to the outside of the building. The Center has long been a safe space for LGBT people and will continue to serve New Yorkers who need specific health and social resources.
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Also Votes on Major Affordable Housing Project in Williamsburg
City Hall, April 14, 2010 – At today’s Stated Council meeting, the members of the City Council will vote on legislation that will improve living and working conditions for carriage horses in New York and increase the rates carriage drivers may charge for rides. In addition, the Council will consider legislation on a new development project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that will create housing, commercial and public waterfront space.
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City Hall – With the 40th anniversary of Earth Day less than two weeks away, Speaker Christine C. Quinn, together with Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Committee Chair Letitia James, and Council Members Mathieu Eugene, Julissa Ferreras, James Gennaro, Jessica Lappin, and Melissa Mark Viverito, today announced legislation that would dramatically expand and improve recycling in New York City. The package of legislation would mark the first significant expansion of the city’s residential recycling program since it was created in 1989.
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City Hall, NY — Over the last ten days, five elderly Asian women have been attacked in the Lower East Side and downtown Manhattan. Today, the NYPD classified the string of vicious and unprovoked attacks as hate crimes, noting they appear to have been motivated in part by racial prejudice.
They NYPD and the Hate Crimes Task Force (HCTF) have identified and are searching for five suspects, three Black and two Hispanic females between the ages of 13 and 15.
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New rule and pilot program strive to ensure placements in safe and appropriate housing
City Hall – City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was joined today in the Red Room of City Hall by Homeless Services Commissioner Robert V. Hess, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, council members and homeless advocates to announce a rule and a pilot program, developed jointly by the Speaker’s Office and Homeless Services.
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