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Since June, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), which took over inspecting duties from the police this year, has conducted 1,508 street vending inspections and issued 424 tickets, slightly surpassing NYPD’s three-month average number of civil citations prior to the pandemic.
Two years ago, before COVID-19 arrived, New York City’s 35 then-marshals collectively took home almost $14 million in net income. But like various industries, much of the marshals’ livelihood ground to a halt in March 2020.
Newly passed legislation may lower the threshold for acceptable lead levels in water fountains in New York public schools. Hundreds of fountains in city parks have tested above that new number.
After an extensive legal battle over its handling of COVID-19 at detention facilities, ICE will not provide basic information on how many detainees have been vaccinated at its Buffalo (Batavia) Center upstate. Here’s what City Limits has been able to find out.
Source of income discrimination constitutes the most common form of illegal housing bias in NYC. Yet the city has only a handful of attorneys and staffers at the two agencies dedicated to tackling the monumental problem.
The New York City mayoral candidate says his achievements as a financier will equip him well to steer the city. But many of the mega-mergers he brokered left big batches of workers behind.
The de Blasio administration used the term to refer to gang crackdowns, domestic violence response, nuisance abatement, efforts to stop knife violence and more.
He’s raised big money from real estate, advocated for lots of development, and approved the majority of development deals he’s considered—with a few important exceptions.
Do his comments on casinos, yeshivas and the teachers union suggest that his campaign has not done its homework?
The Senate’s version of the 2021 spending plan fast-tracks the siting process—even as it carves out tax breaks for existing casinos that are struggling—and gives the City Council a voice.