City Limits/Jeanmarie Evelly
The Quill bus depot on Manhattan's west side, which flooded during Sandy.
Buses played a critical role in the day’s after Sandy, and some bus facilities suffered serious damage. Will the system be ready to step in again—next time?
‘Esta orden judicial, este cambio que están tratando de poner en práctica, en realidad afecta a muy poca gente. La idea de carga pública no aplica a todos los inmigrantes, ni a todas las solicitudes de inmigración.’
On Tuesday, New Yorkers will hit the polls to cast ballots in a number of races: for public advocate, for district attorneys in three boroughs, in one City Council race and for a number of judicial posts. There are also proposed charter changes.
‘This rule, this change that they’re trying to put into effect, it actually touches very few people. Public Charge as a test does not apply to all immigrants, does not apply to all immigration applications,’ says Sonia Lin, of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
‘We need to create our own voice, we need to create our way of doing journalism,’ says QueensLatino director Javier Castaño, who founded the Spanish-language local news outlet nearly a decade ago.
More than 150,000 residents meet the requirements for the current eligibility criteria, officials say. Of those, 76,021 have enrolled so far, and the city has been conducting outreach in the form of phone calls and letters.
Postponed hearings, delayed arraignments and miscommunication are caused by the limited number of interpreters, making the already high-stakes, onerous process of navigating the legal system even more challenging for those who rely on such services.
‘As a Caribbean-American myself, my heart hurts for those whose lives have changed as they know it back home in the Caribbean,’ Clarke told the news site Caribbean Life.
The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY) is now accepting applications for the Fall 2019 semester of our Introductory Reporting Internship.
