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Op-Ed: Response to Mayor Adams’ Promise to Remove Derelict Dining Sheds

Op-Ed: Response to Mayor Adams’ Promise to Remove Derelict Dining Sheds

Pervasive problems with the current program will not be addressed by the removal of a handful of deserted structures.

WNMBA Statement Regarding Jacob Dangler House (441 Willoughby Avenue)

Despite overwhelming support at the hearing from more than 100 members of the community, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission did not move to designate the property within the required time-frame
Op-Ed: This Summer, Let’s All Stop to Smell the Flowers and not the Tobacco Smoke

Op-Ed: This Summer, Let’s All Stop to Smell the Flowers and not the Tobacco Smoke

Our proximity to one another means that a neighbor’s decision to smoke or vape can result in one living in a home polluted by secondhand smoke
Keep Health Care in Reach

Keep Health Care in Reach

Health care subsidies, created in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and expanded in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), are set to expire at the end of the year.
A Giant in Our Community: Albert Vann

A Giant in Our Community: Albert Vann

The Staff at the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY Mourns the Passing of DR. ALBERT VANN
Op-Ed: An Immigrant Child Story

Op-Ed: An Immigrant Child Story

By Dr. Khawar Nawaz MD I'll always remember my first day working in the neonatal intensive care unit – the place in the hospital where newborn babies who are sick or born premature are cared for.

Nowadays, You Have to go Where You Can Afford Real Estate

First of all you, shouldn’t have to negotiate above your means
The Little Park Slope School That Could

The Little Park Slope School That Could

A Park Slope school community’s reaction to the removal of a student-generated mural indicates progress toward culturally responsive sustaining education in a city without a clear course to guaranteeing safety and equity for its diversity of students.
ATL Hitmaker J Young MDK Makes the Big Apple his own

ATL Hitmaker J Young MDK Makes the Big Apple his own

By Lesley Logan New York is best known for the Statue of Liberty, Time Square, Great People, Great Food, the City is an entire VIBE! Even Hip Hop Music, traces from the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, which births iconic artists
Keeping Our Commercial Corridors Vibrant and Building Community Equity

Keeping Our Commercial Corridors Vibrant and Building Community Equity

As we look for ways to keep our commercial corridors vibrant, it's important there is a focus on employee ownership initiatives