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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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By Melanie Marich
At a raucous City Council hearing Wednesday, renters, their supporters and the real estate industry went head-to-head over a new bill that would ban forced broker fees for New York City apartment-hunters.
Hundreds of people descended on City Hall to testify about
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By Nicole Rosenthal
NEW YORK CITY — A New York City Council bill set to ease the burden of expensive broker’s fees for renters is slated to get a hearing this week.
The bill, dubbed the Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses Act (Intro 0360), would amend the city’s administrative code and require the individual hiring a broker, be it tenant or landlord, to foot the broker’s fee.
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By Melanie Marich
New York is one of the only U.S. cities where tenants have to pay for a broker they did not hire. Those fees can range from one month’s rent up to 20% of the annual rent depending on the market.
And in a rental market with a
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