“Our schools are incredibly well-positioned to address hunger. They’re connected to nearly 1 million students and their families, and are one of the few resources that reach a citywide scale.”
Staff at the center, many of whom also live in NYCHA housing, say they keep the door to the mold-filled closet closed as much as possible. They say they’ve filed…
Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
“Nearly 70 percent of New Yorkers with steam heat report being chronically overheated during the winter. Tenants are uncomfortable and landlords waste energy.”
New York’s Big Apple Connect program offers free Wi-Fi in public housing—and new pathways for police access to NYCHA cameras. In Harlem, youth advocates say real safety for young people…
An annual vigil honors the New Yorkers who died living on the streets and in the city’s shelters. “Every life lost to homelessness was preventable,” the event’s organizers said. “People…
“New Yorkers, and Mayor-Elect Mamdani in particular, have an open window of opportunity to fundamentally shift the city from maintaining the status quo between the haves and have-nots to actively pursuing housing…
“By building long‑lived gas infrastructure now, we make New York’s emission‑reduction goals harder and more expensive to reach and risk forcing abrupt, disruptive adjustments later.”
"Comptroller Brad Lander has proposed moving some of the city’s enormous pension fund business from dirtier to cleaner money managers," the authors write. "If he gets the pension fund trustees…
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