Updated with a statement from the city Commission on Human Rights. A transgender woman sexually harassed and denied housing by a real estate broker is still waiting a year later for $50,000 in damages — and said she’s heard little from the city agency that put her in an anti-discrimination ad campaign. “I received absolutely […]
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Posted inBrooklyn, City Commission on Human Rights, Housing, Racism, Real Estate
Racial Profiling Allegations Emerge at Luxury Brooklyn Rental Building After Guest Screening Conflicts and Dog Park Bans
For more than a year, roommates Nikko Sherard Lester and Stephan Nylon Bartholomew lived without incident at AVA DoBro, a luxury rental building in Downtown Brooklyn. But this past spring, the duo say, things started to sour. In April, another tenant’s dog lunged at their Alaskan husky, Onyx, near an elevator in the high-rise at […]
Posted inRacism
Black New Yorkers Describe Racism as ‘Inescapable’ in Quietly Released Human Rights Report
Anti-black racism is present in almost every facet of New York City life, charges a new City Commission on Human Rights report — a timely but quietly released indictment of systemic discrimination and the de Blasio administration’s response to it. The 74-page document — which features accounts from black New Yorkers who have experienced racism […]
Posted inThe Bronx
Landlords Ghost Apartment Hunters When Housing Vouchers Come Up
Additional reporting by Claudia Irizarry Aponte Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. A monthslong quest to get Bronx retiree Irma Troche an apartment has followed a pattern, her two daughters say: They find a place, reach out to the landlord […]
Posted inGovernment
Dozens of Sex Harass Complaints Left Unresolved for Years at NYC Commission
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Dozens of sexual harassment cases brought to the City Commission on Human Rights by employees at private firms have dragged on for years without resolution, data obtained by THE CITY shows. Investigations of 44 […]