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.
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.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC’s Surcharge Law Must Protect Restaurant Workers
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We need the Council to courageously provide relief for all stakeholders—workers, employers and consumers—together.
The Coronavirus Crisis
City’s COVID-19 Testing Efforts for School Staffers Fall Short, Teachers Say
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The city offer prioritized COVID-19 testing for DOE staff and students at 34 sites across the city. But only for seven days.
COVID-19
Six Months Into Pandemic, NYC’s Hunger Crisis is ‘Getting Even Worse,’ Advocates Say
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One food pantry says it’s seen the number families seeking help at its doors jump from 200 a week to nearly 6,500.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Hotels Save Homeless Lives
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‘I’m enormously grateful that my patients are safer now with private rooms and bathrooms in what would be an otherwise empty hotel.’
Government
Feds’ Stimulus Stall Comes After Years of Cutting Help to NYC
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A recent report finds that aid from Washington has dropped by nearly $2 billion since 2010.
Voices of New York
Summer Season Ends for Rockaway Beach Businesses Battered By ‘3 Tragedies’
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Some of the business owners who struggled through the summer of COVID remember the impact of the 2001 plane crash and a 2012 superstorm on the peninsula.
travel
Labor Day Trip? What You Need to Know About NY’s Travel Restrictions
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Those who are still venturing to and from states on the mandated quarantine list, or are at least thinking about it, face an extra dimension of travel planning.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC Schools Can Learn From ‘Open Streets’ & ‘Open Restaurants’
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As politicians quibble over schedules and temperate checks: parents, teachers, principals, custodians and children could learn from the City’s most recent attempt to better use the public space of streets.