Local legislators are trying to find options to prevent 3.1 million immigrant people from continuing to bear the heaviest brunt of the crisis.
arrests
New York Courts Accepting Requests to Destroy Marijuana Arrest Records
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Arrests for two lower-level weed charges have been expunged and the records sealed, but if you want those records destroyed altogether, there’s a form to fill out.
Economy
Drop in Undocumented Immigrants Could Get Steeper Amid COVID-19
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The number of undocumented New Yorkers has dropped for three straight years. It’s a development with consequences for the local economy, some experts say.
Government
Lo que necesita saber sobre: las elecciones del 3 de noviembre en Nueva York
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¿Quién puede votar? ¿Cómo y dónde registrarse para votar y cuáles son los plazos? ¿Cuáles son mis derechos como votante y qué hago si se me impide votar?
Government
Outgoing Sanitation Chief and de Blasio Fixer Discusses Possible Mayoral Run
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Kathryn Garcia, the city’s sanitation commissioner, food czar and former interim NYCHA chief, has resigned from working for the current mayor, perhaps with an eye on becoming the next one.
Economy
Amid Unemployment and Restrictions, Latino Businesses Struggle
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Nationally, Latinos represent 18 percent of the nation’s workforce, but they are overrepresented in industries that lost thousands of jobs as a result of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.
Affordable Housing
A Call for Action to Ease Sunset Park’s Housing Crunch
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The plan includes new tenant protections, repurposing government-owned land and isolated manufacturing parcels for housing, and a rezoning to generate both market-rate and income-targeted apartments.
Voices of New York
What Opponents of the Flushing Waterfront Plan Say
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A public hearing on the controversial Queens development proposal took place this week. Fans see a potential to connect isolated areas. Foes fear gentrification.
ARTS and CULTURE
How Polish Americans Marked the 40th Anniversary of Solidarity
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The 1980 August Agreements were the breaking point in the contemporary history of Poland and the harbinger of what followed: the downfall of the communist system in Eastern Europe.
assembly
Sights & Sounds: Marchers Push Assembly Speaker to Cancel Rent
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But Carl Heastie says the next move in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the federal government’s to make.
Housing and Development
Video: The de Blasio Rezonings, Revisited
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So far, the city has approved six of the 15 rezonings Mayor de Blasio thought he’d accomplish, with one remaining on the docket. Here’s a quick video tour through the communities that have been rezoned.