MTA Announces Congestion Pricing for Manhattan South of 60th Street Starting June 30

MTA Announces Congestion Pricing for Manhattan South of 60th Street Starting June 30

The MTA announced Friday that drivers will begin paying a fare to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street starting June 30. The long awaited dense pricing model that will make history in the country will start in the city at 12:01 am on the last Sunday in June. The date is two weeks later than … Read more

Albany Lawmakers Approve $237 Billion State Budget After Delays

Albany Lawmakers Approve $237 Billion State Budget After Delays

Lawmakers in Albany will approve key parts of the new $237 billion state budget for the next fiscal year after nearly three weeks past the deadline for approval. Governor Hochul signed the agreement this past Saturday. The Gov. pointed out Kathy Hochul in what she calls the first of several wins in her $237 billion … Read more

New Bills Approved for Paramedic Protection in New York City – Get the Details Here!

New Bills Approved for Paramedic Protection in New York City – Get the Details Here!

In order to offer protection to the women and men who protect citizens on a daily basis through urgent medical services, the Municipal Council approved two new bills on the subject this Thursday. Joseph Borelli, leader of the Republican minority in the municipal entity, is the one who led the legislation that seeks for the … Read more

Flaco the City Owl: Death Sparks Rat Contraceptive Pilot Program to Protect Urban Fauna

Flaco the City Owl: Death Sparks Rat Contraceptive Pilot Program to Protect Urban Fauna

Do you remember Flaco, the Eurasian owl who escaped from the zoo and became the most famous escapee in the city? Well, he continues making noise from beyond. “The evidence showed that Flaco consumed a lot, a lot of rat poison,” said Councilman Shaun Abreu. Flaco died from exposure to rodenticides before crashing into a … Read more

Pro-Immigrant Activists Reject Visit of Texas Governor Greg Abbott to New York City

Pro-Immigrant Activists Reject Visit of Texas Governor Greg Abbott to New York City

A group of pro-immigrant activists expressed their rejection of the visit of the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to our city. “We immigrants here in New York are united and we are saying ‘no more’ to the anti-immigrant hatred that he wants to spread, we have seen his actions are anti-immigrant and we are saying … Read more

New York City Subway Sees Significant Drop in Crime, Mayor and Police Chief Defend NYPD Efforts

New York City Subway Sees Significant Drop in Crime, Mayor and Police Chief Defend NYPD Efforts

There is good news for the millions of users of the subway, which has recently been the target of violent crimes, including a shooting inside a subway car in Brooklyn. And as the police reveal in their most recent report on crime, there has been a substantial reduction in crime in the main means of … Read more

Andrew Sokolof Díaz Speaks Out After Being Displaced in Jackson Heights Fire: Councilman Introduces ‘Coming Home Act’ to Protect Tenants

Andrew Sokolof Díaz Speaks Out After Being Displaced in Jackson Heights Fire: Councilman Introduces ‘Coming Home Act’ to Protect Tenants

Andrew Sokolof Díaz remembers how difficult it was for him to be displaced after a fire in Jackson Heights in 2021, which left more than 200 families homeless. “It was a great chaos, it took twelve hours to coordinate in hotels, we in Jamaica Queens with our newborn and many families in the Bronx, in … Read more

New York City Imposes Curfew in Randall’s Island Migrant Shelter, Largest in City to Have Curfew – Effective March 20

New York City Imposes Curfew in Randall’s Island Migrant Shelter, Largest in City to Have Curfew – Effective March 20

Occupants of the Randall’s Island migrant shelter will be notified today about the curfew that will go into effect in two weeks. This will become the largest shelter to have a curfew imposed by the city and the most recent to have this measure. Another 186 shelters have a curfew. Currently, about three thousand people … Read more

Controversy over New Shelter for Asylum Seekers in Gowanus Brooklyn: Community Meeting Sparks Debate

Controversy over New Shelter for Asylum Seekers in Gowanus Brooklyn: Community Meeting Sparks Debate

In order to discuss the new shelter for asylum seekers that the Mayor’s Office has set up in a building located at 130 Third Street in Gowanus Brooklyn, residents of the area held a community meeting this Monday. The industrial building will be converted into a hostel to house up to 400 single men and … Read more

Harlem Residents React to Rumors of Asylum Seeker Shelter in Community

Harlem Residents React to Rumors of Asylum Seeker Shelter in Community

“They should take us out and put us in a new building, not for immigrants.” This is the reaction of a Harlem resident, who did not want to give her name, following a rumor that a building on the corner of 130th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd could be converted into a shelter … Read more