We now move on to talk about the difficult situation experienced by many asylum-seeking families who this week have had to leave the shelter where they were located due to a municipal rule that came into force on Tuesday. These families with children received a notification that has forced them to leave the shelter where … Read more
Reports indicate that the Adams administration would be considering imposing a curfew on migrant shelters throughout the city. This comes after some neighbors complained that migrants go door to door asking for food, clothing and money. During a closed-door briefing on the immigration crisis with local lawmakers on Thursday, the mayor’s director of Asylum Seeker … Read more
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“Awful. Music, mufflers, cars. “Everything is horrible,” said Eva Serrelles, a resident of Washington Heights. -And that is at any time? “Any time”. Noises of all kinds are heard throughout New York day and night and contribute to noise pollution. Precisely, to reduce the deafening sounds that come from cars and motorcycles, the Municipal Council … Read more
This Tuesday is election day in our city. Polls opened at 6 a.m. in all five boroughs, giving voters one last chance to cast their ballots in this year’s election. Attention is focused on the elections for the Municipal Council, with the 51 seats on the ballot, after the different districts were redesigned last year … Read more
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The New York City Council approved a law this Thursday that requires restaurant chains with fifteen or more locations to mark foods that have a large amount of sugar with a specific icon. Specifically, these chains must be guided by the levels of added sugar recommended by the US Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) or … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that he plans to move some migrant families with children to homeless shelters, a move that would be an apparent violation of the city’s right-to-housing laws. During an interview on PIX11, Adams said the move would be necessary because many asylum seekers continue to enter the city’s care. “In the … Read more
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“They are taking away my business and I think that is not fair.” Julio Pabón talks about his business as a short-term rental host on the Airbnb platform. Since last Tuesday, he will not be able to host guests in the 5 rooms of his house in the Bronx because the city’s mayor’s office of … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams is asking city agencies to reduce their budgets by 15% by next spring. This, he says, to compensate for the increasing costs due to the massive arrival of immigrants in recent months. These are some of the most drastic municipal budget cuts in years. The municipal government estimates that the immigration crisis … Read more
The city and the state of New York are pressing the federal government more and more insistently to expedite the granting of work permits that will allow the more than 100,000 immigrants who have arrived in the Big Apple in fifteen months to get out of a care logic that is costing million dollars to … Read more