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By Vianella Burns
HARLEM, NY — One of the city’s beloved summer traditions, the Riverside Park goats, will return to the community in July, and this time they are coming to Harlem.
Joining the Riverside Park Conservancy for their fifth summer, the goats are being assigned a new job site in Riverside Park at West 143rd Street, north of their previous location on 120th Street, where they will munch on poison ivy and other invasive plants.
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By Hadassa Kalatizadeh
On Friday, Grubhub, Doordash and UberEats were on the hot seat at a City Council hearing, in which seven laws were proposed to regulate the delivery business. As reported by the NY Post, the three- hour long City Council hearing featured complaints from delivery
drivers who griped about low tips and safety conditions.
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By René Albisser
Todo es importante en un sistema de transporte masivo. El diseño de las estaciones, la tecnología usada en las máquinas, la correcta operación de trenes y tranvías, el mantenimiento de estos, la logística de ingreso y salida de los usuarios y por supuesto, y no menos importante, la higiene del sistema.
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By Lisa Fickenscher and Caitlin McCormack
Food delivery drivers on Friday admitted low tips and a lack of transparency from “greedy apps” has pushed them to make reckless decisions on Big Apple roads during a heated City Council hearing on Friday.
“We need protection against these greedy apps that care more about their profits than our safety,” Doordash deliveryman Antonio Solis told the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protections.
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By Claudia Irizarry Aponte
The City Council is weighing a bill that would force food delivery apps to offer customers the option to tip drivers up front, after major platforms removed or changed tipping options at checkout last winter when a minimum pay law for delivery workers went into effect.
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By Brittany Kriegstein
Delivery apps have deployed armies of e-bikes on the streets and sidewalks of New York City and the City Council is looking for ways to make those companies responsible for the myriad health and safety concerns that have erupted as a result.
The Council’s Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection debated
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By Spectrum News Staff
City lawmakers are weighing a series of bills concerning delivery workers and food delivery apps.
One would return the tipping option to a customer’s checkout before they submit their order. The other would require the minimum gratuity suggestion to be set at 10% of an order’s cost.
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By Gus Saltonstall
The atmosphere was festive last week inside of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 99th Street.
The church, which first opened on the same Upper West Side corner in 1807, held an event for locals on Thursday to highlight the recent improvements that have taken place within the landmarked building.
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New York, NY—On Tuesday, June 11, at New York City (NYC) Hall, over 80 leaders, staff, and clients representing mental health Clubhouses and HIV and AIDS services organizations—as well as activists and elected officials—rallied against cuts to programs serving New Yorkers with serious mental illness, as well as those living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
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Our Executive Director, Khary Lazarre-White, appeared on PIX11 News to discuss improving college readiness for underserved students. With only 57% of 2022 graduates deemed college-ready, our mission is urgent. Khary addressed the impact of poverty, housing, and food insecurity on education. The segment featured our College Access and Preparedness Panel with NYC Council Speaker Adrienne E.
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