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New York City · New YorkState legislators have approved a slew of new rules that will give some New York City tenants more rights to stay in their apartments, and limit how much landlords can raise the rent in eligible apartments. The “good cause” policy is a historic change for the city’s housing market, one that follows in the footsteps of other, similar rent rules recently adopted in California, Oregon and Washington and being seriously considered in Connecticut now…See the Story
How ‘Good Cause’ Could Give Some Tenants New Leases and Lower Rent
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New York City · New YorkNew York City will have more power to crack down on illegal cannabis shops, the governor announced Friday, in a deal that will also empower the state to revoke liquor, tobacco and lottery licenses from businesses selling illegal weed. The measures would allow the state Office of Cannabis Management and other law enforcement agencies to immediately padlock businesses found to be illegally selling cannabis and posing an “imminent threat” to the he…See the Story
State to Pull Lotto, Liquor Licenses From Bogus Weed Shops as City Given Padlock Power
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New York City · New YorkOwners in a debt-saddled Brooklyn Heights affordable co-op complex are getting city help unlocking the power to generate cash when apartments sell — infuriating people who’ve spent years on the waiting list for one of the highly coveted units at Cadman Towers. The City Council on Thursday approved a tax break that will help Cadman Towers become the first Mitchell-Lama cooperative to convert to a city-sponsored affordable housing co-op known as a…See the Story
Brooklyn Heights Affordable Co-op Gets City Aid to Generate Cash Via Sales, Dashing Waitlisters’ Dreams
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New York City · New YorkAfter back-to-back NYPD sweeps along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, street vendors on Thursday marched to City Hall and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to demand that City Council pass a law to lift the cap on street vending licenses — which for general merchandise sellers have been limited to 853 since 1979. The NYPD raids on the busy drag between Jackson Heights and Corona made headlines Monday and Tuesday, and continued into Wed…See the Story
Street Vendors Push Back as NYPD Raids Ramp Up
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New York City · New YorkThis story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Katelynn Seetaram, a junior at Pace High School in Manhattan, never had much interest in journalism. But when she was placed in a journalism class her freshman year, she was stunned at just how much the course could teach her. She learned to question narratives that spread on social media. She developed a stronger sense of media literacy. And …See the Story
NYC Students Urge Officials to Expand Youth Journalism Opportunities
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New York City · New YorkThe fire alarm system in a new 400-bed migrant shelter next to Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal that’s housing migrants is not currently up to fire code, but the FDNY okayed opening it because the provider agreed to put a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week fire watch guard in place. The firm providing security at the shelter, FJC Security Services, however, is currently the subject of two probes by the city Department of Investigation over allegations that…See the Story
Gowanus Migrant Shelter Allowed to Open With Outdated Fire Inspection
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New York City · New YorkA fight over food, another over the use of a folding chair. Dozens of people rushing a closed waiting-room entrance trying to get out of the rain. People passing out while waiting in line, or getting sent to the hospital after collapsing to the ground shivering from cold. THE CITY reviewed dozens of internal reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request chronicling the most serious incidents that occurred at the city’s two main w…See the Story
Level 1 Incidents in Migrant Waiting Rooms Detail Fights, Freezing and Frustrations
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New York City · New YorkEven if she can’t be behind the wheel of an MTA bus in Brooklyn, Latoya Christian wants to be at work right now while counting down to the birth of her son in July. But the 39-year-old has been sidelined since March and is instead burning through her time off — because of what she and several other New York City Transit employees contend is a lack of light-duty jobs made available for pregnant women who drive buses. “There are other jobs we coul…See the Story
Pregnant Bus Drivers Say They're Not Getting Their Due Accommodations
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