Sergio Fabara Muñoz
Celebrating the Year of the Rooster
A Trump presidency and persistent incidents of anti-Asian sentiment are disturbing. But this author is appeased by the footsteps of the Year of Rooster and its prophetic messages.
Amid far less rancor than greeted the mayor’s first rezoning in East New York, the City Planning Commission certified the Downtown Far Rockaway proposal, starting the ULURP clock.
(New York. N.Y.) – The Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District’s (BID) 10th annual Community Survey finds robust support for the neighborhood’s Public Plazas, and a majority of respondents favoring the BID’s safety and sanitation services. Released today, the survey notes that 90.8% of respondents like the Public Plazas at 23rd Street, Broadway, and Fifth Avenue; that result echoes survey findings in 2015 and is up by nearly 5 percentage points from 2014. “Over the last nine years, the Flatiron Plazas have transformed the heart of the district,” said Jennifer Brown, Executive Director of the BID. “They have enhanced local economic vitality, pedestrian mobility, access to public transit, and safety for all street users, and become attractive destinations not only for visitors but for those who live and work in the neighborhood.”
The Public Plazas were established in 2008, courtesy of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Flatiron Partnership.
A mission-based enterprise, City Beet Kitchens is focused on providing customers with fresh, high quality food and a personalized service.
Some are worried about a Syrian invasion, and others about refugee ‘leeches.’ As a 2016 panel in Brooklyn discussed, refugees themselves have a different set of concerns. And theirs are based in reality.
From Baltimore County to San Antonio, LA to Chicago, many cities are now accepting reports of minor crimes via online tools.
New York still has the highest unionization rate in the country—although it fell slightly.
If neighborhoods don’t want the shelters New York City needs, make them a better offer like the one Mayor Koch developed during an earlier era’s housing emergency: promising that today’s shelter will be tomorrow’s community resource.
What are New Yorkers—in particular, New York’s immigrants—prepared to do to resist the president’s executive orders and other anti-immigrant actions?
If President Trump truly wants to truly heal our nation and put it back to work, he needs smart, effective strategies for building cultural understanding. I urge him to start with artists.
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