By Jon Campbell | Gothamist | September 20, 2023 An estimated 472,000 Venezuelan migrants — including tens of thousands in New York City — will receive protection from deportation and be eligible to receive work permits under a new action announced Wednesday evening by the Biden administration. The Department of Homeland Security will extend and re-designate […]
At Springfield Gardens High School in Queens, NYC DOT has installed a new traffic signal and crosswalks directly in front of the school. So far in 2023, the agency has already completed 15 safety projects near schools – with another 29 in progress – by installing raised crosswalks, increasing pedestrian space and slowing drivers near […]
Polls reveal that almost 70% of U.S. households have a companion animal, and that most households with pets consider them to be family members.
By Melinda Katz The time is ripe to better defend our society’s most voiceless members by enforcing and strengthening New York State’s animal cruelty laws. In my time as district attorney for Queens County of New York, I have encountered countless cases involving cruel acts against innocent and defenseless animals. Unfortunately, New York’s criminal statutes […]
New York state’s new regulations are forcing families to buy third-party care packages from pre-approved vendors. Families say the new policy is “retaliation” and a way to squeeze more profits from incarcerated people and their loved ones.
By Mansa Musa, The Real News The prison-industrial complex has many ways of turning the incarceration of human beings into a profitable business model. In New York state, new regulations targeting care packages for prisoners show this logic at work. Friends and families of incarcerated people can no longer send packages containing food to those […]
By Insurance Journal FBI, Homeland Security and New York police officials have charged nine defendants including gang members with a violent racketeering and extortion conspiracy in attempting to take over an entire industry designed to help victims after a fire. The defendants, who officials said include members of the violent Bloods street gang, took control […]
By Beridiana Calderon It’s no secret that rent prices are rising in NYC. But there is one secret you should know—some New Yorkers can freeze their rent. For more than twenty years, I’ve lived in my Washington Heights apartment. When I moved in, my daughter was just a baby, and now her babies are being […]
New York, NY – July 6, 2021: Former Governor Andrew Cuomo makes an announcement regarding gun violence in the state at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. (Shutterstock) By Stephen Wilt, Long Island Press Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, 64, who resigned last year in the wake of multiple sexual misconduct allegations, is eying a potential […]
By Sarah Jacoby, TODAY A woman has gone 14 months without detectable levels of HIV in her body following an experimental stem cell transplant procedure. The “New York patient,” as she’s being called, is the fourth person — and the first woman — to be apparently cured of HIV with this type of treatment. She […]