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District 39

Shahana Hanif

Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and the Columbia Waterfront

October 18, 2024 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

CITYWIDE — NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER BRAD LANDER joined the New York Taxi Workers Alliance on Thursday to demand an end to Uber and Lyft’s practice of “locking out” drivers from their work apps in order to exploit a loophole in the city’s law, which requires the companies to pay drivers for their time between trips.

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By Chris Sommerfeldt | csommerfeldt@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News, Josephine Stratman | jstratman@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News and Evan Simko-Bednarski | esimko-bednarski@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News

UPDATED: October 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM EST

Billionaire Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan, together with his relatives and business associates, pumped more than $60,000 into Mayor Adams’ legal and political coffers this summer — even as his company had key business interests before the city and lobbied top City Hall officials about them, according to a Daily News review of public records.

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BNN Bloomberg — By Natalie Lung | October 17, 2024 at 4:07 PM EDT

(Bloomberg) — New York City Comptroller Brad Lander called for changes to city regulations that would end app lockouts, a practice that Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have used to game the city’s minimum wage law, saving tens if not hundreds of millions in future driver pay.

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by Ariama C. Long, October 17, 2024

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans are considered white in terms of racial classification under the U.S. Census, an identity that many haven’t necessarily agreed with for decades. Because of New York’s huge population of MENA immigrants and descendants, more advocates and business owners are pushing to be included in parity programs usually aimed at bolstering Black and Hispanic communities.

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Gothamist — By Arun Venugopal

Published Oct 16, 2024

The Brooklyn Community Board 1 meeting was a sleepy affair, almost entirely populated by members of the board, city officials and police officers who were all on hand to discuss the state of the city’s migrant influx, which has long been described as a “crisis.”

But the extent to which residents of the district — which comprises Williamsburg and Greenpoint — are alarmed by the situation wasn’t reflected in the meeting’s attendance on Tuesday night: Just two residents showed up for an update from city officials.

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The new dog park is made with paw-friendly turf
by Miranda Levingston, Patch Staff

Posted Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 12:53 pm ET | Updated Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET

BROOKLYN, NY — After nearly a year of construction, a newly refreshed dog run has landed at Washington Park in Park Slope, complete with dog-friendly turf and amenities, New York City Parks Department officials said.

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