Gothamist | By Arya Sundaram — Published Jan 29, 2025
New York City is contracting with a nonprofit to provide free interpreter services at government offices, while employing immigrants in the process.
The Community Interpreter Bank, as it is called, will be run by the nonprofit New York Immigration Coalition, initially under a $1.4 million city grant from 2024.
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PIX 11 News | by: Grace Gomez — Posted: Jan 28, 2025 / 10:29 PM EST
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Several arrests were reported Tuesday as Starbucks baristas went on strike in Park Slope. The strike and sit-in happened just days before the unionized store was slated to close.
Striking workers claim the company will not bargain with them.
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January 27, 2025
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Eligible Applicants Will Receive a New UL-Certified E-Bike and Additional UL-Certified Battery
Trade-In Program Will Enhance Public Safety by Replacing Hazardous Batteries and Devices
NEW YORK – New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez today announced applications are now open for New York City’s e-bike trade-in program for food delivery workers, the first-ever municipal program of its kind.
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CBS News New York | By Hannah Kliger — January 24, 2025
NEW YORK — Some residents in Brooklyn say their neighborhood is covered in dust and rattled by noise. They blame a city-owned concrete recycling plant that moved in last year.
Piles of recycled concrete stand nearly two stories high along Columbia Street in Cobble Hill.
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BKReader | By Megan McGibney — January 24, 2025
The Panel for Education Policy passed a resolution noting its commitment to block all federal law enforcement officials from school property.
New York City education leaders on Wednesday passed a resolution stating that the city’s public schools will protect all students, including migrant children as
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Probasi TV | January 23, 2025
Brooklyn Paper | By Kirstyn Brendlen — Posted on January 20, 2025
Columbia Street Waterfront District residents and politicians are demanding the immediate shutdown of a city-owned concrete recycling facility they say is filling the air with hazardous dust.
Dozens of locals picketed outside the Columbia Street plant on Wednesday, waving signs that read “Shut it down” and “Protect our health!!
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Council Member Shahana Hanif released the following statement on the Ceasefire Agreement and Hostage Release on January 19, 2025:
I am encouraged by the recent news of a ceasefire agreement in the Middle East and the beginning of the hostage release as Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher reunite with their families.
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Queens Ledger Brooklyn Downtown Star/ BQE Media | By Jack Delaney — January 16, 2025
The city finally redesigned this intersection on 9th St after a cyclist was killed in 2023. But at the victim’s vigil, both her family and transit advocates said the changes didn’t go far enough.
When Sarah Schick was hit and killed by a box truck two years ago while riding an e-bike at the intersection of Ninth Street and Second Avenue, the tragedy ignited a firestorm of local activism.
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Eyewitness News | Wednesday, January 15, 2025
PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn (WABC) — A 90-year-old Brooklyn man is fighting to stay in the home he says was sold out from under him years ago without his knowledge — and now his neighborhood is joining the fight to keep him from being evicted.
Flanked by neighbors, family, and lawmakers, Ray Cortez is fighting eviction from the only home he’s known for over half a century.
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