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Tuesday, May 7, 2019
NEW YORK — More than a dozen NYCHA senior centers across the city are set to be closed or consolidated and tenants are not happy.
Holding signs and chanting, residents of New York City Public Housing Authority called on Mayor Bill de Blasio Tuesday to restore the $500 million they say he promised for senior housing on NYCHA property.
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Monday, May 6, 2019
Raúl Ávila es en quien Anna Wintour más confía para darle personalidad, luz, identidad y color a la tradicional Met Gala. La editora de 'Vogue' y máxima organizadora de este evento ha quedado fascinada año con año con la creatividad y gran sentido de la estética de este talentoso colombiano.
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
Angrily denouncing Mayor de Blasio over what they call a broken $500 million promise, tenants and church leaders marched in the South Bronx on Saturday to demand more public housing for seniors.
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
NUEVA YORK.- Cientos de inquilinos de los complejos de NYCHA, en el Sur de El Bronx marcharon este sábado desde la Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción a un lote vacío propiedad de NYCHA que está en la calle en 152 entre Courtland y Melrose, para instar al alcalde Bill de Blasio a cumplir su promesa de invertir $ 500 millones para construir viviendas asequibles para personas de la tercera edad.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
New York City is sitting on the leading edge of a major storm that’s about to make landfall: How and where is the city going to house its burgeoning senior citizen population? If left unresolved, its impact will have dire and far-reaching consequences that will encompass many sectors of our economy and social structure.
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Monday, April 15, 2019
In Part 2 of his "Mondays with the Mayor" interview on NY1, Mayor Bill de Blasio sat down with Errol Louis to discuss the city's actions after string of tragic deaths of construction workers, his efforts to build more senior housing, and President Donald Trump saying his administration is considering sending migrants to "sanctuary cities."
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Friday, April 12, 2019
We already knew that, after pledging last summer to commit $500 million in city funding to help build housing for seniors on public land — freeing up large NYCHA apartments for the use of others — Mayor de Blasio had essentially reneged.
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Friday, April 12, 2019
Nearly a year ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised $500 million to build low-income housing for seniors. Now, the city is walking back that figure, which it says merely reflects an estimate of the total resources needed to fund the senior developments—only $100 million in direct city dollars will actually go toward building those apartments. The rest of the housing will be funded through subsidies, tax credits, and borrowing off of revenue expected from rent subsidized by the federal Section 8 program, according to a mayoral spokesperson.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Nearly a year after the de Blasio administration announced a $500 million commitment to build housing for low-income seniors, the city has advanced development on only one of six planned sites.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
A year after Mayor Bill de Blasio stood on the steps of City Hall and promised $500 million to build senior citizen housing on public lots, his administration this week quietly conceded the money was not put in his budget, THE CITY has learned.
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Sunday, March 31, 2019
Mayor de Blasio committed $500 million to Metro-IAF’s plan for building new apartments for seniors, starting with six already identified NYCHA and Housing Preservation and Development sites where money could be spent and units put up quickly. Or at least that’s what the community group says.
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Back in the summer, under pressure from NYCHA tenant groups and members of the clergy, Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson brokered a budget deal that included a crucial commitment: a half-billion dollars to build public housing for seniors on vacant city land.
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Friday, October 6, 2017
The four-story building sits on a quiet street in Brooklyn, across from a church and an arts school. Eight apartments, front and back, two on each floor.
The building, near the boundary of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, has gone through incarnations as a rental, then a tenant-run cooperative, then a rental again. The most recent change brought a handful of new tenants, lured not by a landlord seeking to profit off the neighborhood’s gentrification, but by the promise of affordability.
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Thursday, October 5, 2017
In a few weeks New Yorkers will hit the polls once again for the 2017 mayoral election with candidates that include Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and current Mayor Bill de Blasio. However, for de Blasio, local officials and community members are no longer playing nice when it comes to the demands of New York City residents.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The opening of the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island last week reminds us that New York can act dramatically and in a hurry. In just six years, an idea championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg went from idea to reality.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
BROOKLYN - Dozens gathered Sunday to protest conditions at NYCHA residencies that have been called “deplorable.” St. Paul Community Baptist Church and East Brooklyn congregation members were marching to East New York NYCHA houses in protest of environments they say are unsafe and rat-infested. One resident says they have mold and chipping paint, while another submitted video to News 12 of water damage and a rat infestation.
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Sunday, September 17, 2017
Community leaders marched in Bushwick Sunday, calling for more affordable housing for seniors.
Those affected by rising living costs marched alongside elected officials, asking the city to build 1,500 new units of senior housing on NYCHA land.
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
A city starved for affordable housing needs groundbreaking ideas for salvation — like a new push to pair religious institutions that own land with developers who possess the financial, construction and management know-how to turn that real estate into new apartments at fair rents.
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Friday, July 28, 2017
To help keep illegal guns off the streets, the city's top cop on Thursday vowed to take the fight straight to the NYPD's main gun manufacturer. Brooklyn reporter Jeanine Ramirez has more.
Church leaders and parishioners packed the St Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York Thursday night not only to gather and pray but also as a call to action. The religious network East Brooklyn Congregations made a list of demands for their invited guest, Police Commissioner James O'Neil.
"We want guns out of our communities," said Rev. Steven Carter of East Brooklyn Congregations.
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
Two chapters in two lives are being lived out in the tidy room on East 28th Street that Andrew Byrnes now calls home — two chapters that are different but entwined. One is the latest chapter in Mr. Byrnes’s life. His previous chapter was troubled, and troubling.
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
WASHINGTON — After the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2010, it created a review mechanism intended to prevent exorbitant increases in health insurance rates by shaming companies that sought them.
But this summer, insurers are turning that process on its head, using it to highlight the reasons they are losing money under the health care law and their case for raising premiums in 2017.
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Saturday, June 25, 2016
There were no support groups for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender students at the Academy for Young Writers in East New York when Michelle Eisenberg joined the school in 2012.
Now, the Brooklyn public school’s first Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA), co-founded by Eisenberg, is recognized as one of the best in the country.
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Sunday, June 5, 2016
It took 30 full minutes for the steady, awesome stream of humanity to file down the dozen steps outside Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, on Decatur St. just off Lewis Ave. in Bedford Stuyvesant.
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
On Sunday, April 24, 2016, more than 150 leaders and parishioners will lead a procession from Mass to bless a new traffic signal in front of the parish. They will be joined by Queens Transportation Commissioner Nicole Garcia who met with and made a promise to more than 100 parishioners in November.
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Monday, February 22, 2016
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