“Over 600 union retail workers worked at the department store across the street from the World Trade Center. Many of them are now facing health challenges related to their toxic…
“Concerns about the creation of ‘mega jails’ have hounded the plans to close the jails on Rikers Island since before the historic vote in 2019. It has served as a…
Brooklyn City Councilmember Justin Brannan discusses his new Committee on Resiliency and the Waterfront and what he believes is the city’s lagging effort to prepare for coastal storms.
Local representatives are beginning the long-awaited move to define just what area of lower Manhattan might be covered by a “Chinatown” rezoning that the de Blasio administration has said it…
