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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Stubbs was a long-time advocate for social justice issues such as housing, addiction and criminal justice reform.
BK Reader Staff | Oct 18, 2024 10:39 AM
Gowanus community members on Wednesday honored the legacy of Carl Stubbs, a Brooklyn social justice advocate, with a street renaming ceremony at the corner of Douglass Street and 4th Avenue.
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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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Patch — Posted Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 12:53 pm ET | Updated Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET
By Miranda Levingston, Patch Staff
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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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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The event drew crowds of Brooklyn residents and saw members of groups including Rabbis for Ceasefire, Jewish Voices for Peace, and If Not Now.
News 12 Brooklyn | Rob Flaks, Oct 12, 2024, 8:45 PM
Members of Park Slope Congregation Kolot Chayeinu hosted a Yizkor, a large-scale group mourning event at the Grand Army Plaza Saturday.
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NEW YORK, NY: As the author of Local Law 85 of 2023, which established citywide mandatory curbside composting, I am thrilled that this program was rolled out this week in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
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