‘Food waste is troubling in the best of time, but given current hunger epidemic, it’s particularly shocking to see dairies dumping milk and farmers discarding good produce.’
Cleaning is now being done in earnest, residents say, but delays in basic maintenance have been the norm for years.
‘Mayor de Blasio has shifted the police’s role. What comes next must be a smart, actionable plan that empowers local communities to educate, assist, and lead first-level enforcement of social distancing rules.’
The pandemic forced the city to create a whole new food-distribution system. While there have been bumps, experts say the effort has been a success,
Undocumented migrant farm workers are facing evictions as farms in upstate New York encounter financial losses, according to farm worker advocacy groups.
‘Men take the jail phone one by one to ask me questions. They beg me to contact their families so I can tell their families that they love them in case they die.’
‘Nowhere is America’s problematic relationship to Chinese-Americans more apparent than on Doyers Street in Chinatown, Manhattan. To many, it’s the Bloody Angle.’
‘These cuts don’t have to happen; in fact, this could be a moment to reverse the decades of debilitating disinvestment— lifting up the very people whose labor, smarts, and persistence make New York what it is. ‘
Likely CBO partners have not received detailed information from the city about how the immigrant emergency relief program will operate.
‘Instead of protecting tenants, the order puts the onus on tenants to prove they are entitled to not be sued or evicted.’