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By Nathalie Jimenez
New York City has passed a bill outlawing discrimination based on weight, joining a growing movement in the US to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.
More than 40% of American adults are considered obese and studies show weight stigma is pervasive.
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By Emma Fitzsimmons
New York City is set to become the largest American city to ban discrimination based on a person’s weight.
On Thursday, New York City Council approved a bill that adds a person’s weight to the list of characteristics that are protected from discrimination, along with race, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation.
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By Kevin Duggan
Mountains of trash, mountains of politics.
The Department of Sanitation documented in a much-anticipated report that the Big Apple can containerize the garbage that lines city sidewalks, but to make it work, Mayor Adams will have to invest in a wholesale overhaul of the world’s largest municipal trash collection agency
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By Emma Fitzsimmons
New York City, where sidewalks have long been overrun by foul-smelling heaps of garbage bags that force passers-by to yield to oncoming rat traffic, is about to try a not-so-novel idea to solve the problem.
The concept, known as trash containerization, seems simple enough: Get trash off the streets and into containers.
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By Brittany Kriegstein
The City Council will be hopping today with a series of bills touching on matters from traffic safety to policing and homelessness.The measures could have a significant impact on daily life for people across the five boroughs.
The bills are scheduled for a vote in their respective committees and could be voted through by the full Council as early as Thursday afternoon, when the city’s legislature is expected to meet.
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By Jessi Mitchell
NEW YORK — The Big Apple’s newly designated rat mitigation zones have the highest numbers of complaints and inspections, and they need the most help. Around one block of Hamilton Heights, the beasts find feasts of trash.
Videos showing rats flooding the trash on sidewalks have been flooding District 7 Council member Shaun Abreu’s inbox lately.
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By Stephon Johnson
The need for no-fee attorneys for people facing eviction in New York City is so great that nonprofit legal providers are asking the city to quadruple the budget for their services. But the City Council speaker says it’s the state that needs to step up.
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By News 12 Staff
A new resolution adopted Tuesday by the City Council is calling on the Department of Education to create a Jewish Heritage Day in city public schools.
The legislation was introduced by Council Member Shaun Abreu in an effort to combat antisemitism and celebrate diversity.
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HARLEM, New York (WABC) — Gas is back on for hundreds of residents at a NYCHA apartment complex in Harlem after three months without service.
NYCHA released a statement on Friday saying that gas had been restored to the Grant Houses located at West 125th Street in Harlem.
The gas was cut on January 9 after there was a discovery of a gas leak.
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By Sarah Belle Lin
Public hospital nurses rallied outside of Harlem Hospital on Tuesday demanding higher pay, on par with private-sector nurses, and better staffing levels across New York City’s municipal hospitals.
The nurses, who were joined by elected officials and community allies, shared their experiences at the annual Board of Directors meeting for New York City’s Health+Hospitals System, the country’s largest public healthcare system.
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