NY1 – Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, chair of the Council’s Committee on Immigration, joined Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Friday to talk about the tents at Orchard Beach in the Bronx.

“My concern is that the mayor, this administration is circumventing, going around the right-to-shelter law that we have in place by just giving off the responsibility to the New York City Emergency Management team,” she said.

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The City – Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who attended the rally, told THE CITY that to her knowledge, the health department has not reached out to vendors since the law initially passed. Department officials are only now offering to engage with advocates, Hanif said.

“It hasn’t been transparent, and we’re looking to DOHMH to correct this and urgently begin issuing the new licenses,” she added.

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WNYC – The majority of the New York City Council members are new and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members. This week, Councilmember Shahana Hanif talks about her priorities for district 39, which includes parts of Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and the Columbia Waterfront in Brooklyn.

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City Limits – “Water main breaks have caused outages across my community and contamination from old pipes have left homes with rust colored water for days…The people of New York City deserve functioning infrastructure and real investments are the only way to get us there.” [Read More]

New York Times – Shahana Hanif, a city councilwoman who is chairwoman of the Council’s Immigration Committee, said the rhetoric around right to shelter is “dangerous” and the city should provide additional funding to organizations like Catholic Charities, which will operate the new welcome center, and hire more translators and provide better food for the arriving migrants [Read More].

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WNYC – New York City Council Member Shahana Hanif (District 39) and Mariama James, community organizer and co-founder of the Coalition For a 100% Affordable World Trade Center Tower 5, talk about how the terror attack led them to activism, and how it changed the politics of Muslim-American identity.

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Huff Po – Shahana Hanif, the first female Muslim member of New York’s city council, told HuffPost that Miller should be removed, and that she does not believe he could be objective.

“For him to be able to take on a position that will give him a broader impact to an outlet that many of us trust is just another reminder of just how Muslims in our city are treated,” Hanif said.

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AM New York – “Under a blazing sun,  City Council Member Shahana Hanif, Immigrant Committee Chair said, ‘We cannot keep relying on a patchwork of mutual aid organizations and immigrant rights groups, we need a robust and coordinated response from all levels of government,’ She called for federal action both is providing assistance and addressing the southern border crisis.”

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Washington Post – Reyes muses that in February, universal composting felt “pie-in-the-sky.” Now, though, he feels like they are right on the cusp.

Council member Shahana Hanif, the lead sponsor of the legislation that would mandate universal residential composting, says that going forward, smaller initiatives are crucial “as a legislator to lean on, to better understand how we should be scaling up.” [Read More]

Brownstoner – Current Park Slope councilmember Shahana Hanif said she’s glad the developer has followed through on their prior commitment. “The selection of Lidl is a win for our community that would not have been possible without the advocacy and input of the Community Stakeholder Group,” Hanif said in a statement. “In 2016, the [community group], working with my predecessor, initiated discussions with the project developers to ensure that a full-sized, affordable, high quality community supermarket replaced the Key Food.” [Read More]