“Every New Yorker deserves to know what their city is doing for them in the language they speak at home,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a press conference announcing the…
“We almost feel like we’re doing something wrong by asking,” Jazmin Grubb said of her family’s struggles to obtain American Sign Language accommodations for her aunt, who is deaf and…
“With MetroCards no longer being sold after Dec. 31st, 2025, thousands of older New Yorkers must now navigate a system they did not choose and have not been guided through.”
New Yorkers speak over 800 languages, and more than 350,000 city households participate in HUD programs. But advocates say many local tenants won’t be greatly affected by the change, since local…
During the past five years, requests for interpretation by phone that were answered by the city’s Language Line or with an on-site interpreter increased more than five-fold in the Department…
“With legal services to obtain work authorizations, language access so they can navigate our government bureaucracy, childcare so they can go to work, and education so their kids can get…
During the last two years, over 189,200 migrants have come to New York City and about 64,400 are currently under the city’s care; of those, roughly 17 percent are from…
The planned budget cuts, including some scheduled for the next fiscal year that starts in July, include reductions for programs offering English-language classes and legal help for people at risk…
A patchwork of agencies, stakeholders and community groups help provide language-specific educational materials and translation services around city elections, what experts say is essential to making sure residents aren’t locked…
Spanish translators were missing at two Queens polling places that City Limits visited Tuesday morning, while interpreters for other languages said they had interacted with very few voters.