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Delivery Workers Spark Schumer-Adams Project to Convert Newsstands to Rest Stops
E-bike and phone chargers are coming soon to City Hall Park and other spots, after drivers for companies like Grubhub and DoorDash dreamed of having warm places to pause between runs.
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New York’s Climate and Energy Goals Would Get Jolt With Federal Bill’s Green
The Senate’s $433 billion Inflation Reduction Act marks the most significant federal action on climate change yet. What does it mean locally?
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Delivery Workers Cheer Restroom Access and Tip Transparency Alongside AOC and Chuck Schumer
Starting Monday, restaurants must let delivery people use restrooms on request. Another reform gives workers the right to see how their tips are allocated.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer Aims to Deliver Infrastructure Dollars to Help Food Couriers
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hopes to steer funds from the federal infrastructure bill to build rest areas for New York City’s delivery workers, he announced during a Wednesday ride-along in Harlem with the labor group Los Deliveristas Unidos. “I’m going to tell them about the Deliveristas,” the Senate majority leader promised regarding his colleagues in […]
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New York Haitian Leaders Head to Texas Border to Help Migrants in Crisis
Driven by images of immigration agents on horseback chasing asylum seekers, Brooklyn Councilmember Farah Louis and Council hopeful Rita Joseph gave comfort — and supplies — to migrants. Louis called the trip a “mission that God gave me.”
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Fate of Campaign to Save Kids Trapped in Hot Cars Now in Congress’ Hands
Mandatory warning systems to keep drivers from stranding children in the backseat are buried in massive infrastructure bills. But one version offers a weak solution, said advocates — among them a father who lost his twins in a Bronx tragedy.
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MTA to Get Slim Slice of Federal Infrastructure Bill as Cars Outpace Mass Transit
The federal government could inject $550 billion in new spending on infrastructure projects around the country — but the MTA, the nation’s largest mass transit agency, stands to get about a 1.9% sliver of that. The money would help jumpstart big-ticket capital projects such as the next phase of the Second Avenue Subway, the purchase […]
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National Battle for Citizenship Path Marches Through New York City
Senate Democrats on Monday unveiled a $3.5 trillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill that included a proposed path to citizenship for “qualified immigrants” — and New Yorkers are poised to help lead the fight for passage. The National TPS Alliance came to the city last week to rally the roughly 25,000 New Yorkers who benefit from Temporary […]
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A Push to Unlock Subway Bathrooms as the City Gets Moving Again
With a mix of embarrassment and frustration, Scotty Stone described having to step off a subway train, desperate to find a place where he could relieve himself on the sly. “Luckily, nobody was around, so I had to go to the back of the platform and do whatever I had to do,” said the 53-year-old, […]