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The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine has received $1.5 million in city funding to support a larger capital campaign to renovate Synod Hall.
Synod Hall is a historic building on the Cathedral’s 11-acre campus.
With the support of New York City Council including Speaker Adrienne Adams and City Council Member Shaun Abreu, the Cathedral’s goal is to transform Synod Hall into a larger community hub of
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By Jeongyoon Han
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Weather conditions on the East Coast forced some flight cancellations to Chicago late Sunday night — including the flight that two New York delegates, Erik Bottcher and Allen Roskoff, along with Shaun Abreu, who is a member of the DNC Rules Committee, were supposed to be on.
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By Emily Ngo
ROAD TRIPPING: Severe storms in the New York area scrambled flights out of the city and made for travel nightmares for delegates trying to get to Chicago in time for Harris’ ceremonial nomination.
Several, like Assemblymember Grace Lee, were stuck in a frustrating cycle of rebooking flights just to have them canceled.
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By Shaun Abreu, NYC Councilmember District 7, and Dr. Janice Weinman, Executive Director, Education Through Music
A teacher shortage is coming to New York City. Baby boomers are retiring from teaching, and COVID stretched and stressed our educators beyond what any of us could have foreseen, leading to unprecedented levels of burnout.
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By Liam Quigley
Spanish trash containers will be at the vanguard of New York City’s “trash revolution.”
City records show the sanitation department is finalizing an order of up to 1,500 large bins from the Madrid-based company Contenur, and they will be installed in parking spaces across West Harlem starting in May, according to officials.
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By Michael McDowell
HARLEM, NY – P.A.’L.A.N.T.E, or People Against Landlord Abuse and Tenant Exploitation, is hosting its annual Demystifying Housing conference this week at Harlem’s Oberia Dempsey Center at 127 W. 127th Street in Harlem.
The conference, which began on Wednesday, is free to attend and open to all.
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By Paul Liotta
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — All New York City residential buildings with fewer than nine units, including single-family homes, will need to begin using approved trash cans in November, but they still have time to secure the new cans.
Mayor Eric Adams announced the new trash cans July 8 outside Gracie Mansion with Councilman Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) and Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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By Mohamed Farghaly
New York City’s “Sidewalk Slobs” program enforces strict sidewalk cleanliness regulations with increased fines for non-compliance, while a new bill empowers local sanitation departments to use surveillance cameras to address illegal dumping.
In a bid to maintain the city’s cleanliness, New York City is intensifying efforts to combat unsightly and hazardous conditions caused by neglectful property owners.
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On a beautiful and glorious Wednesday evening, July 10, 2024, The Office of Council Member Shaun Abreu and the David N. Dinkins Family co-hosted a private ceremony to celebrate the 97th Birthday of David N Dinkins, the 106th Mayor of New York City, and the street co-naming in his honor at Riverside Church in Harlem, New York.
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By Sophie Krichevsky
With Mayor Adams’ announcement earlier this month that residential buildings with one to nine units will be required to put their trash in bins with secure lids for collection, the Department of Sanitation’s newly minted 8 p.m. trash put-out time will become moot.
Come November, when the container requirement goes into effect, garbage from all one-to-nine-unit buildings will be able to hit the curb as early as 6 p.m.
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