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The uptick comes despite a decline in the estimated number of new infections overall, which dropped by 17 percent. Latino New Yorkers represented 42 percent of the city’s new diagnoses…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Nov 2024

Crown Heights Homeowners Say They’re Bearing the Brunt of Mayor Adams’ War on Rats

Two years into the mayor’s anti-rodent siege, rat infestations persist, but one consequence of the policy change has emerged: a major uptick in homeowner fines. “The summonses started escalating,” said…

ByDana Edwards 6Comments

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Jul 2024

Health Immigration

Despite Long Term Declines, New York Sees Recent Rise in HIV Diagnoses Among Latinos

While experts cautioned that the low numbers in 2020 should be taken with a grain of salt—likely an undercount due to the pandemic, and at odds with a longer term…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Dec 2023

Housing and Homelessness

NYC Council Scrutinizes Barriers to Supportive Housing

“How can the agencies make this process more streamlined for the applicant, easier to navigate, less given to subjectivity and less prone to error and discrimination?” asked Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala.

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Aug 2023

Economy Government Labor News

In First Months of Street Vendor Enforcement, Sanitation Seized—Then Donated—32,220 Pounds of Food

Since Sanitation took the street vending enforcement reins, the department has confiscated abandoned or non-compliant material from street vendors in 228 cases, and has donated 32,220 pounds of food and…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Aug 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness

As City Health Dept. Weighs New Lead Paint Standard, a Push for Stricter Enforcement

Advocates want the city to take a more proactive approach to lead paint inspections and enforcement, saying the current system contains loopholes that allow property owners to skirt the rules.…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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May 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness

‘Bill of Rights’ Law for NYC Supportive Housing Tenants Went Into Effect Last Week, But Word Isn’t Getting Out

While the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is notifying city-contracted supportive housing providers of their requirements under the new law, the same isn’t happening for those contracted primarily…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 3Comments

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Mar 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness

2021 Was Deadliest Year on Record for Homeless New Yorkers

Last year, 640 unhoused people died in shelters, hospitals or the streets, 4 percent higher than in 2020, when COVID-19 first struck New York City. The rise in fatalities was…

ByDavid Brand 9Comments

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Mar 2022

Government Health Opinion

Opinion: NYC Needs a Collaborative Approach to Improving Residents’ Whole Health

‘Historically, city agencies have been too siloed and funding for programs too disparate to create meaningful improvements to people’s health. I believe Eric Adams is the mayor to change that.’

ByJody Rudin 0Comments

New HIV Diagnoses Increased Last Year, With Highest Rates Among New Yorkers of Color

Crown Heights Homeowners Say They’re Bearing the Brunt of Mayor Adams’ War on Rats

Despite Long Term Declines, New York Sees Recent Rise in HIV Diagnoses Among Latinos

NYC Council Scrutinizes Barriers to Supportive Housing

In First Months of Street Vendor Enforcement, Sanitation Seized—Then Donated—32,220 Pounds of Food

As City Health Dept. Weighs New Lead Paint Standard, a Push for Stricter Enforcement

‘Bill of Rights’ Law for NYC Supportive Housing Tenants Went Into Effect Last Week, But Word Isn’t Getting Out

2021 Was Deadliest Year on Record for Homeless New Yorkers

Opinion: NYC Needs a Collaborative Approach to Improving Residents’ Whole Health

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