Data from 2013 indicates that some New Yorkers are more vulnerable to the heath risks of heat that others. People aged 65 or older made up a third of the 26 heat-related deaths that year.
Albany
Loft Law Update Stirs Tensions Among Tenants, Housing Advocates, Pols
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This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to craft a fair bill.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Longtime Homeless-led Organization Says it May Shut Doors
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Picture the Homeless, a homeless-led grassroots organization is raising money to keep the doors open.
coastal resiliency
East Side Resiliency Plan Faces Key Hearing
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Two community boards have approved the plan, but with conditions, and some neighbors are still stunned the city dropped a plan developed in cooperation with local stakeholders.
Age Justice
10 NYCHA Senior Centers to Remain Open
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Funding was restored to 10 senior centers at NYCHA buildings that were slated to close due to budget cuts.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Critical Voice for Ethnic Community Press Re-launches at City Limits News
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Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and City Limits Announce Plan to Preserve ‘Voices of New York’
GOVERNMENT
ICE Raids Anticipated: Know Your Rights (Conoce Tus Derechos)
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Posters and information from legal advocates ahead of an anticipated wave of immigration enforcement actions.
bailout
Councilmember & Taxi Drivers Call for Bailout, Citing City’s Role in Crisis
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Brokers and lenders convinced drivers to take out risky loans they ultimately could not afford. But drivers and their allies say the city, too, profited from the industry’s downfall.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Housing Update: New Worries About Children in Lead-Tainted Apartments
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The housing headlines you missed this week
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Bushwick Tenants Sue to Force City Takeover of ‘Reprehensible’ Building
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The building at 299 Troutman Street has eight units with only four units being utilized. The other four units sit burned and empty on the third and fourth floors after a 2008 fire.
Art at the Limits
What Bushwick’s Children Think About Trump’s Wall
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Among those who did come to the Brooklyn neighborhood from overseas, there are feelings of deep vulnerability.