Daily News – By Chris Sommerfeldt | April 18, 2025
Randy Mastro, Mayor Adams’ top deputy at City Hall, ordered the Sanitation Department this week to stop fining most building owners over failing to comply with the city’s new mandatory composting rules — a reversal that comes despite the mayor’s strong backing of the program, sources told the Daily News on Friday.
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City Limits – By Daniel Parra | April 17, 2025
During a city council hearing, immigrants and their advocates shared stories of fraud, much of which is conducted over social media.
During a New York City Council hearing about immigration services fraud on Tuesday, one asylum seeker testified about how he had been tricked by someone who claimed to be his attorney.
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Crain’s New York Business – By Julianne Cuba | April 14, 2025
A Lower East Side-based nonprofit organization with a focus on education has sold a longtime Park Slope early childhood center to an anonymous private buyer for almost $13 million, city records show.
University Settlement, whose offerings include mental health and wellness services as well as programs focused on early childhood to older adulthood, is parting ways with 71 Lincoln Place.
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Gothamist – By Samir Ferdowsi | April 14, 2025
Two bills aimed at protecting against immigration services fraud will be up for debate in the City Council next week.
The City Council Committees on Consumer and Worker Protection as well as Immigration will have a joint hearing to crack down on fraudsters looking to prey on the influx of migrants in New York City.
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Nadler: ‘They don’t have the votes’
Brooklyn Daily Eagle – By Mary Frost | April 7, 2025
RED HOOK —The New York City Economic Development Corp. has postponed — for a few weeks — a vote on a plan outlining the future of the $3.1 billion, 122-plus-acre Brooklyn Marine Terminal Project.
Originally scheduled for April 11, the vote by members of the
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BKReader – By Owen Lavine | April 7, 2025
Members of the Cobble Hill Association, City Council Member Shahana Hanif, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman and many Brooklyn residents agreed on one thing during a Thursday meeting on the future of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal: the city’s current plan is not ready for approval.
The
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Spectrum News NY1 – By Samantha Liebman | March 28, 2025
Four city councilmembers — Shahana Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Rita Joseph and Crystal Hudson — want to see a center-running bus lane on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, signing a letter urging the DOT to take action.
“I recognize just how much of a necessity buses are for working people, for people with disabilities, folks trying to get to their hospital, childcare center, school,” Hanif said.
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With a broad coalition of support, the signees are seeking an additional $900 million in the state budget.
City & State – By Sahalie Donaldson | March 26, 2025 04:00 AM ET
ith tens of thousands of New York City families currently at risk of losing access to free or discounted child care over the next fiscal year due to a looming budget gap, just about every city elected official signed a letter urging state leaders to move quickly to fund the vital voucher program.
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Gothamist – By Caroline Lewis | Mar 24, 2025
City Council members pressed health officials Monday on the long wait times New Yorkers with serious mental illnesses face when trying to enroll with teams that connect them with treatment and housing.
“These are extremely important programs and we are looking to expand them,” said Councilmember Shahana Hanif, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn.
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Mayor Eric Adams has used a spreadsheet to flag agency statements that may cause potential problems with the Trump administration.
The New York Times – By Emma G. Fitzsimmons | March 24, 2025
On the day after President Trump’s inauguration, Mayor Eric Adams’s deputy mayor for communications assembled officials from across city government to let them know that change was coming.
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