BrooklynEagle – By Brooklyn Eagle Staff | Published July 7, 2025
BOROUGHWIDE — TWO BROOKLYN CITY COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE TEAMED UP ON A SOLUTION TO THE UPCOMING EXPIRATION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 support and the e-waste that is expected to result from it.
Councilmembers Shahana Hanif (D-39) and Jennifer Gutiérrez (D-34) on Monday, July 7, are sponsoring the Brooklyn Laptop Fix-a-thon to reduce e-waste and support local literacy programs.
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Queens Post – By Shane O’Brien | Published July 2, 2025
The New York City Council has passed legislation introduced by Queens Council Member Julie Won and Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif, aiming to combat immigration legal services fraud, whereby predatory actors exploit the fears of immigrant communities by offering false promises of legal services.
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Gothamist – By David Brand | Published Jun 3, 2025 | Modified Jun 3, 2025
Brooklyn community leaders and elected officials say the state’s economic development arm had no right to waive millions in monthly penalties over a developer’s failure to complete affordable housing at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards complex, and they say they may sue to force the state’s hand.
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New York Post – By Nicole Rosenthal | May 15, 2025
These Brooklyn musicians are playing to deaf ears.
Tenants at a band rehearsal space near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal are taking matters into their own hands and pooling funds to hire a private company to test for cancer-causing vapors inside the building after the landlord refused to let state inspectors inside.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle – By Raanan Geberer | April 25, 2025
BOERUM HILL — Plans to transform a city-owned parking lot in Boerum Hill into a new rent-stabilized senior housing development were announced Thursday by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
The dilapidated lot on Third Avenue, between Bergen and Wyckoff Streets, will be converted into approximately 68 units of affordable senior housing.
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AMNY – By Adam Daly | April 24, 2025
The City Council on Thursday approved a broad legislative package aimed at strengthening civil rights protections and healthcare access for transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) individuals, marking one of the most comprehensive local efforts in the nation to safeguard gender-diverse communities.
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Crain’s New York Business – By Amanda D’Ambrosio | April 25, 2025
The City Council passed a slate of bills on Thursday to bolster legal protections for people
seeking gender-arming services.
The legislation comes months after local hospitals – including NYU Langone and Mount
Sinai – abruptly halted care for patients under 19 following an executive order that
threatened to pull federal funding from facilities providing services including puberty
blockers, hormone therapies or gender-arming surgeries to minors.
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Gay City News – By Matt Tracy | April 24, 2025
Standing alongside the co-chairs of the City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus, dozens of advocates fed up with attacks on gender-affirming care huddled on the steps of City Hall on April 24 and chanted, “When trans rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”
The rally set the stage for an eventful day at City Hall just hours before lawmakers approved a package of bills intended to protect gender-affirming care across the five boroughs after several hospitals either cancelled appointments or otherwise pulled back on care for youth and some adults in recent months as a result of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year.
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WNYC News | April 23, 2025
Councilmember Shahana Hanif, the primary sponsor of the mandatory composting law in New York City, is pushing back against the Adams’ administration’s decision to stop fines to most buildings that break composting rules for the rest of the year.
That move came just weeks after the city began issuing fines for composting mandates in the first place.
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The Adams administration has softened the mandate so that only large buildings are subject to composting fines, and even then will be given four warnings. Four thousand fines were handed out across the city in the first three weeks.
Our Town – By Hudson Burrows | April 21, 2025
Food scrap fines are being scraped at least temporarily for many users.
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