For New Yorkers, the city’s war on trash is about to hit home. On Thursday, the New York City Council is expected to approve a bill that will require New Yorkers to separate their food waste from regular trash, much as they already do with recyclable items. The residential mandate would roll out borough by […]
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The five words tucked into a bill listing the rights of homeless people in New York City seem straightforward enough: “The right to sleep outside.” The bill is sitting on the desk of Mayor Eric Adams. If it becomes law, it would seem to answer a question that has become a point of contention in […]
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The law applies to companies with workers in New York City, but labor experts expect it to influence practices nationally. At least four states — California, New Jersey, New York and Vermont — and the District of Columbia are also working on laws to regulate A.I. in hiring. And Illinois and Maryland have enacted laws […]
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The City Council in New York is set to approve this week a major expansion of a rental subsidy program to help people move out of homeless shelters and into homes more quickly. But the effort will run into a formidable opponent: Mayor Eric Adams. A set of bills that the Council is expected to […]
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For decades, affordable housing in New York City has followed a seemingly simple rule: To make new development more palatable, half of new affordable apartments must first be offered to people already living in the area. The policy, put in place in 1988 by Mayor Ed Koch, was designed to benefit low-income communities. It has […]
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Since tens of thousands of migrants began arriving in New York City last year, the administration of Mayor Eric Adams has searched for one place after another to house them: hotels, parking lots, a cruise ship terminal and a pair of giant tents on Randall’s Island among them. Almost every idea has caused an uproar. […]
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Jace Knight had heard about Somerville, Mass., while working on a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama in 2020. The small city had recently passed a law granting domestic partnership rights, like the ability to receive employment benefits or make hospital visits, to people in polyamorous relationships. Mx. Knight, who is nonbinary and has been […]
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Three days after a man choked another passenger to death in a New York City subway car, law enforcement officials said they are still sorting out what happened and whether he should be criminally charged. To a layperson, what happened may seem obvious: a man held Jordan Neely, a homeless 30-year-old, in a chokehold for […]
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If the bill passes the Council, it would be up to the city’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, along with other agencies chosen by Mayor Eric Adams, to decide which civil offenses would be subject to a sliding scale and how to determine how much New Yorkers should pay in fines according to their […]
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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has consistently pushed a moderate brand of Democratic politics, prioritizing public safety, policing, pro-business policies and fiscal austerity. Others in his party have pushed back — arguing that New York, where Democrats overwhelmingly outnumber Republicans, should be a model for progressive stances, setting the tone for other large […]
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Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted of a 1989 rape in Central Park, is finally where he seems to belong: on the campaign trail. In Harlem, where Mr. Salaam is a first-time candidate for the City Council, he is magic to watch. He gives dap to men outside subway stations […]
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But had we really swayed far enough in the other direction, toward genuine acceptance, away from the view that a low body mass index was something to venerate? Fat activists believe that we have not, which is why there are proposed laws in the New York City Council as well as in the State Legislature […]
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When Nancy Davis of Baton Rouge, La., learned last summer that the fetus she was carrying had a rare and fatal condition, her anguish was compounded by the chaotic legal terrain surrounding the abortion ban in her state. A local abortion clinic had shut down, and her hospital refused to perform the procedure, despite an […]
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For the first time since he took office last year, Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday raised the specter of cutting critical municipal services in response to what his budget director described as worsening economic conditions. The message, delivered in a letter from the budget director, Jacques Jiha, directed the leaders of nearly every city agency, […]
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For nearly three years, New Yorkers have been able to take advantage of a pandemic-era lifeline that provided people like Jocelyne Grandu, a retired French teacher who lives in Harlem, with an extra $80 each month in food stamp benefits. But with that federal assistance ending this month, more than 30 million people across the […]
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In 2021, Chi Ossé, 24, a former Manhattan party promoter and activist against police brutality, pulled off an impressive win to become the youngest member of the New York City Council. Now, he faces a new test: moving out of his mother’s townhouse and finding an apartment. Over the past two months, in between City […]
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In a preview of potential Democratic battle lines in New York City, Adrienne Adams, the powerful speaker of the City Council, laid out her vision for the city on Wednesday, detailing an agenda that seemed to put her in conflict with Mayor Eric Adams. In her second State of the City speech, Ms. Adams called […]
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While his comments might have struck some as Nixonian hyperbole, they ran the risk of understating the scope of the problem. Last month, at a City Council hearing to address the issue, Lynn Schulman, chair of the Committee on Health, reported lab findings that showed “prohibitive levels” of E. coli, salmonella, nickel and lead in […]
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GEMS has been very successful both at the level of policy and practice, a fact disputed by virtually no one. Fifteen years ago, after much advocacy on the part of herself and others, Ms. Lloyd helped write the draft legislation for the state’s Safe Harbor Act, which recognized that young people taken in by the […]
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In the summer of 2020, New York’s progressive movement looked more robust than ever before. The murder of George Floyd by the police led activists to occupy City Hall Park for a month and prompted the City Council to pass a budget that called for $1 billion in cuts to the New York Police Department. […]
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New York’s housing shortage has been building for years, and for just as long, state officials have done relatively little to address it. But now, as rents and home prices reach crisis levels, Gov. Kathy Hochul is racing to come up with solutions. She appears to have found one in California. And in Massachusetts. And […]
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Since the governors of Texas and Florida began sending migrants northward in acts of political theater last spring, the city of New York has received close to 44,000 asylum seekers, a number greater than the populations of SoHo and TriBeCa combined. According to City Hall, there have been 12,000 new arrivals during the past month […]
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