“This city needs to acknowledge that we Latinos don’t just put hot sauce on their tostadas but we also bring our music, hard work, pay taxes.” Latino New Yorkers spoke to El Diario about the biggest contributions the community makes to the city.
Art at the Limits
Editor’s Notebook: Searching for the Ghost of Harold Bloom at the Melrose Library
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Could the Melrose branch of today nurture a similar life of ideas?
GOVERNMENT
City Council Eyes Ambitious Set of Housing Bills Before Year’s End
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This year, the City Council’s focus will be on a range of bills aimed at eradicating lead poisoning and addressing the needs of the city’s homeless population, among other housing and land-use concerns.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Dip in the NYC Poverty Rate Exposes How Much More Policymakers Must Do
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‘This new data from the U.S. Census Bureau is a call to action. It’s up to policymakers build on the policies that can fuel more positive outcomes for New York City families and to reject policies that would reverse progress.’
Report: City’s Housing Plan Goes Deep, But Not Deep Enough
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Housing units for extremely low- income households are not being preserved or created in line with the level of need in the city, the report from ANHD found.
In Wake of Homeless Slaying, City Shelter Plans in the Spotlight
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From Voices of New York: community news outlets across the city report on the killing of four homeless men in Chinatown last week, and on the de Blasio administration’s ongoing attempts to reform the shelter system.
Debate Over Fine Points of Campaign-Finance System as Deadline Nears
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While commending Gov. Cuomo’s proposal for a voluntary matching system on the state level, many experts have also suggested that the governor’s blueprint requires significant changes to be successful.
BRONX BUREAU
Courts Need to Adapt to New Rights for Tenants: Report
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Many tenants facing eviction in housing court are unaware of their right to a publicly funded lawyer, Bronx advocacy organizations contend.
council
Council Bill on Commercial Leases in Limbo as Evidence of Vacancy Problem Grows
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Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.
age discrimination
Debate Over How to Root Out Age Discrimination in NYC Workplaces
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A package of Council bills would mandate more workplace testing, but an administration official says that’s not the best way to detect a subtle form of bias that often intersects with other types of discrimination.
GOVERNMENT
Where Have All the Whistleblowers Gone?
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Only one complainant out of 170 cases spanning five years and the entirety of New York City government was officially considered a ‘whistleblower.’