NEW YORK, N.Y. – August 23, 2022: A sign identifies a polling location in Lower Manhattan on a congressional primary election day. (Shutterstock) By Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY For the last two election cycles, New York City voters have used ranked choice voting, which was approved by 73% of voters in 2019 to vote in local […]
Mayor Eric Adams speaks at rally for Federal support to help serve asylum seekers at City Hall in New York on January 22, 2023. (Shutterstock) By Tim Reid, Reuters LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The mayor of New York traveled to the Mexican border city of El Paso on Sunday [January 15] and declared that “there […]
Photo Credit: Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) NEW YORK, NY – The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) Commissioner Manuel Castro, NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue, NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and diverse immigrant communities today announced the naming of the historic Immigrant Heritage Plaza located south of Bowling Green Park. […]
By Brian Brant, Audacy NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Long Island man will spend up to a decade behind bars for scamming an 89-year-old woman out of her Bushwick home, Brooklyn prosecutors announced Tuesday. Shavard Callaway, 48, was sentenced Tuesday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Phyllis Chu to an indeterminate term of five to […]
New York City, NY USA October 19, 2022. Migrants started arriving at the emergency relief center on Randall’s Island where tents hold up to 500 cots and other facilities for single adult men. (Shutterstock) By Gabriel Poblete, THE CITY Around three dozen migrants stood inside a barricaded area in the north wing of the Port […]
By El Mansour Bettahar Nobody plans to get sick or injured, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. Ten years ago, I got into an accident at my construction job. I was in pain and alone, having left my family in Algeria during my recent move to the United States. I wanted to get treatment but didn’t have […]
New York City, NY/ USA- 11-18-18: NYC Subway Employee Workers Repair Work Underground Train Tracks New York City Subway Jobs. (Shutterstock) Local 100 President Richard Davis attacked the MTA for planning to cut subway service in an Op-Ed. Davis says service cuts will force riders to wait longer for trains, experience more crowding, and lead […]
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on preserving and protecting Democracy at Union Station on November 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Shutterstock) By JR Holguin On Thursday, January 5, President Biden unveiled a new strategy that includes extending Title 42 expulsions of people who enter the U.S. through the southern border while granting humanitarian parole […]
Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in New York continue to strike on 2nd day as negotiation still on between administration and union on January 10, 2023 (Shutterstock) New York, NY—NYC nurses strike for safe staffing to end this morning in historic victory as tentative deals reached with both Montefiore Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital. Nurses […]
Photo Courtesy: Brooklyn Brough President Office BROOKLYN, NY (January 10, 2023) – Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso tonight delivered Brooklyn’s first State of the Borough address in nearly ten years at New York City College of Technology. The Borough President was joined by Brooklyn’s own Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who also gave remarks, Mayor Eric […]