Mike Prohaska, Business Manager of Local 79, across the street from 152 E 116th Street in East Harlem, the pink building with blue window mullions. The construction project located at 152 E. 116th Street took advantage of city benefits but did not hire anyone through HireNYC.
HireNYC gets a lot of hype from the de Blasio administration, but four years in, 80 percent of applications through the initiative are listed as ‘pending.’
As community groups oppose the city’s moves on an East Side resiliency project, the region awaits the Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal for harbor storm barriers.
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