MARCH 29TH RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
All in-person HRA appointments have been canceled, and no negative actions will be taken on a client's case. For the safety of clients and staff, they are asking all New Yorkers who need services to do as much as they can through ACCESS HRA and by calling 311. You can download the ACCESS HRA mobile app or visit nyc.
MARCH 25TH RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
The City has created the GetFoodNYC food delivery program to provide food for coronavirus (COVID-19)-vulnerable and food-insecure New Yorkers not currently served through existing food delivery programs. Sign up here or call 311.
The Dept.
UES Community Board Cancels Meetings Through March - Patch
How remote learning will work in New York City - City and State
M.T.A., Citing Huge Drop in Riders, Seeks $4 Billion Virus Bailout - NY Times
‘Possibility of a Prolonged Recession’: Coronavirus Could Wreak Havoc on City, State Budgets - Gotham Gazette
City Closes Hundreds of Senior Centers, But Will Provide Meals to Aging Population Especially Vulnerable to Coronavirus - Gotham Gazette
Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres tests positive for coronavirus - Daily News
N.Y. May Need 18,000 Ventilators Very Soon.
New York State Coronavirus Cases Rise to 22 -WSJ
NYC orders mandatory coronavirus testing for public workers - Politico
Yeshiva University shut down as family of Westchester man confirmed for coronavirus - Politico
New Law Expands Cuomo’s Power During Coronavirus Outbreak - WSJ
Could coronavirus push gig workers’ labor fight to the fore? - City & State
Congress Approves $8.3B Coronavirus Bill - Capital Tonight
Addressing coronavirus fears, chancellor says every NYC school will soon have a nurse - Chalkbeat
NYC schools scramble to track student and teacher travel amid coronavirus threat - Chalkbeat
Amid Coronavirus Fears, Officials Say New York City Subway Is Safe - WSJ
Worried About Coronavirus on the MTA Subway? Here's What We Know - NYTimes
Why congestion pricing might be delayed - Politico
De Blasio’s latest MTA pick gets around with a city-funded chauffeur - NY Post
MTA’S ANDY BYFORD LEAVING ROLE THAT MAY BE DERAILED - The City
Who’s Your ‘Train Daddy’? On Byford’s Last Day, N.Y. Leaves No Doubt - NY Times
MTA Board Member Named Interim Head of New York City Transit Authority - WSJ
MTA to buy nearly 1,000 'open gangway' subway cars to give riders more space - Daily News
Need a New Driver’s License to Fly? Prepare for a Real Wait.
Lenox Hill may ditch apartment tower meant to pay for hospital overhaul - NY Post
Lenox Hill Hospital may scrap plans for 41-story residential tower - Curbed
MANHATTAN COMMUNITY BOARDS ARE MISSING HISPANICS, YOUNG PEOPLE — AND RENTERS - The City
Report: Half Of NYers Experienced Poverty In Recent Years - Gothamist
New York City Congestion Pricing Waits for Federal Approval - WSJ
Sorry, Renters: You Still Have to Pay Brokers' Fees for now - NY Times
RENTERS DON’T HAVE TO PAY BROKERS’ FEES ANYMORE. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - The City
Tenants Would Get Priority To Buy Their Landlord's Building Under New Bill - Gothamist
How ranked-choice voting will work in New York City - City and State
DE BLASIO TAKES MOM-AND-POP COMMERCIAL RENT CONTROL LONGSHOT - The City
Pay gap for women working for NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is 12% less than men on average, payroll records reveal - Daily News
New York City Could Seize Cars of Drivers Racking Up Tickets - WSJ
Fewer than 8,000 NYC kids in foster care, an all-time low: officials - NY Daily News
Coronavirus Updates: The Illness Now Has a Name: COVID-19 - NYTimes
The One Rent Reform That Could Change The Lives Of Millions Of NYC Tenants Gets A Second Chance - Gothamist
Here Comes The Strand - Our Town
Everyone’s got a problem with the plastic bag ban - City & State
Who Runs the Transit System? - Our Town
Child Victims Act leads to insurance woes - City & State
After Pressure Campaign From Law Enforcement, NY State Politicians Say They Will Change Bail Reforms - Gothamist
Please note: We regularly highlight articles on news sites that have limited access for nonsubscribers.
Byford, Cuomo's Popular Subways Chief, resigns (for good this time) - Politico
New York Will Finally Legalize E-Bikes and E-Scooters - Gothamist
Preservationists Want Frick Museum to Buy Epstein Home - Patch
Satirical 'Historic Landmark' Plaque For Alan Dershowitz Added to Jeffrey Epstein's Former UES Mansion - Gothamist
Miracle On The Hudson Survivors Reunite Yearly to Recount that Near Death Experience - NY1
55 Schedule Changes Coming to 41 Bus Routes in April - NY1
Is Fairway Really Closing? - NYTimes
Fairway Market Denies Plans to File chapter 7, Close Stores - NY1
New Subway Cars Let Riders - and creeps and smells - move freely - NY Post
Why Shiny New Tech Companies Love Old Industrial Buildings - NYTimes
Bill Would Grant NYC Voting Rights to Certain Non-citizens - NY1
THEP on the Upper East Side Serves Extraordinary Thai Food - Broadway World
M1 Busway Cameras Now Issuing Fines to Drivers - NY1
Video Shows MTA Subway Train Fully Covered in Graffiti - NY Post
How to Fix a $6.1 Billion Budget Hole? Attack Healthcare Spending - NYTimes
Poll: Most NYers Think Bail Reform Was a Bad Move - NY1
Is Restaurant Noise a Crime - NY Times
In a Crowded New York City, Should Newcomers 'Go back to Iowa' - NYTimes
What The Hudson Yards Kerfuffle Says About The Problem With Private Developers Building Public Spaces - Gothamist
Iconic Union Square 'Coffee Shop' Sign Replaced With Perfectly Dispiriting Chase Bank Sign - Gothamist
The Barricading of Madison Avenue - Our Town
MAYORAL HOUSING PROGRAM STRUGGLES TO INTEGRATE NEW YORKERS BY INCOME - The City
NYC bus ridership falls for sixth year, lowest level in decades - Daily News
New York Police Department Officers Leave for Better Pay at MTA - WSJ
The men in charge of running the new MTA - Politico
In Wake Of New Rent Laws, Housing Maintenance Violations Decrease - Gothamist
Fairway's Future Looks a Little Brighter - Our Town
Man's Death on Upper East Side Home a Homicide - NY1
Andy Byford Couldn't Have Stopped Political Interference in the MTA - City & State
City to propose universal taxi app amid medallion crisis - City & State
NYPD Issued More Moving Violations To Cyclists Than Truck Drivers Last Year - Gothamist
Cuomo gives a shot to an alcohol friendly agenda - City & State
MTA Launches Anti-Bias Campaign in Response to Growing Hate Problem - NY1
There Is No Exit From This Future Airline Seating Hell - Gothamist
Harlem Youth Basketball League Mourns Founder, Kobe Bryant - NY1
7 Reasons Recycling Isn't Working in New York City - NYTimes
Mexican Tacqueria to Open on Upper East Side - Patch
City Hall Cuomo's Medicaid Plan Could Cost The City - Politico
City's housing agency changes 'devastating' voucher policy after domestic violence suit - Politico
Suspected Coronovirus case in New York Is Ruled Out - NYTimes
Spike in Crime Inflames Debate Over bail law in New York - NYTimes
Restaurant Workers Left Out of $15/Hour Minimum Wage Plan - Gothamist
Shredded Escalator 'Wreck' Blamed on Lapsed MTA Maintenance - Gothamist
NJ Transit Passengers Say They Were Left Abandoned On Train Outside Penn Station - Gothamist
'I May Have Killed Someone': Drifter Charged in Upper East Side Murder - NYTimes
City Planning Commission Approves Contested Lenox Terrace Development Plan - Gothamist
Please note: We regularly highlight articles on news sites that have limited access for nonsubscribers.
New NYPD Counterterrorism Chief Is First Woman to Lead Bureau - WSJ
Changes to Bail Law Split Democrats in Albany -WSJ
City knew ferries have been for the rich since day one, documents reveal - NY Post
Demo Permits Filed For 251 East 77th Street In Lenox Hill, Manhattan - NY YIMBY
Upper West Side Panel Unanimously Backs Safe Routes for Cyclists Through Central Park - Streetsblog
As Cuomo Proposes Expansive Equal Rights Amendment Favored in Senate, Assembly Again Passes Narrow Version - Gotham Gazette
What to know about the state’s new bail reform law - City and State
Rent reforms lead small landlords to sell stabilized buildings - Curbed NY
Despite Tax Breaks, These City Institutions Shut Doors On Voters - Gothamist
The Decade Dominated by the Ultraluxury Condo - NY Times
MAYOR’S $95.3 BILLION PROPOSED BUDGET ADDS COSTS, NOT PROGRAMS - The City
Sources: Cuomo Reaches Agreement With Advocates to Legalize E-Bikes, E-Scooters - NY1
NYC’s 2019 graduation rate inches up to 77% - Chalkbeat
Report Sees de Blasio’s ‘Mandatory Inclusionary Housing’ Falling Short - City Limits
Good cause eviction among top priorities for housing advocates - Times Union
FDNY: Open Door Fueled Fire That Injured 18 in Manhattan High Rise - NY1
Subway Service Disrupted After Water Main Break on Upper West Side - NY Times
State lawmakers: Don't Cut Mental health Services - Capital Tonight
MTA Scaling back EMTs at Subway Stations - Capital Tonight
Albany airport authority suffers ransomware attack - City & State
Feds: Correction Officers Smuggled Weed, Opioid medication to Rikers Detainees In Exchange for Bribes - Gothamist
Expand Penn Station? Fight With Trump Stalls Tunnels to Get There - NY Times
How Tiffany Moved 114,000 Gems Without getting Robbed - NY Times
Attorney general launches investigation into subway policing, which MTA is expanding - Politico
NYCHA's list of unresolved issues grows - City & State
Bill to End Religious Exemptions for Vaccinations Collapses in N.J. - NY Times
Please note: We regularly highlight articles on news sites that have limited access for nonsubscribers.
BP Brewer to host task force meetings on Lenox Hill hospital revitalization - Villager
NYC evictions down almost 20% six months after state tenant protections enacted - NY Daily News
NYC Ferry ridership up 32% in 2019, with service expansions coming: EDC - AM New York
Second Avenue is going through big change thanks to more mass transit - NY Post
After a wave of anti-Semitic violence, NYC schools plans curriculum to combat hate - Chalkbeat
Working group reveals new layer of anti-harassment reforms - Politico
How New York Is Zoning Out the Human-Scale City - NY Review of Books (thanks Anthony!)
MTA starts New Year off on wrong track as widespread delays plague commuters - Daily News
NYC workers flaunting placard abuse on first day of crackdown - NY Post
"Beneath the Queensboro Bridge, 16 personal cars were parked on the sidewalk.
Former homeless man opens soup kitchen on Upper East Side - Fox 5
New UES Soup Kitchen To Distribute 200 Meals Per Day - Patch
Bike Safety Improves On UES Amid Deadly Year For City, Pols Say - Patch
90,000 Jews Gather to Pray and Defy a Wave of Hate - NY Times
Cuomo Administration Begins Medicaid Rate Cut - Capital Tonight
Census report: New York is Losing New Yorkers - Gothamist
DeBlasio misses chance to influence MTA's $51B capital plan - Politico
12 Questions for 2020 - Politico
Several firefighters injured in high rise fire on the Upper East Side - The NY Post
Tip Wage for Workers in "Miscellaneous" Industries to End - Capital Tonight
More People Are Dying on New York City's Streets.
City Commits 184 Additional K-8 Seats To Upper East Side - Patch
New York’s MTA Board Approves Agency’s $17 Billion Budget for 2020 - WSJ
NYCHA Development Dreams at a Crossroads - City Limits
NYCHA Remains The City's Worst Landlord, Public Advocate Says - Patch
Opinion: NYCHA Open Space: The Next City Park Frontier - Gotham Gazette
Analysis suggests misdemeanors, like felonies, declining on subways ahead of police expansion - Politico
City Council Wants NYPD to ease up on e-bike food deliverers - NY Post
Is It Safe to Swim in New York City's East River? - City & State
The Met Museum unveils new exhibition in Great Hall - Capital Tonight
A Church's Milestone Anniversary - Our Town
Woman Sues After Tumble in Stumble Inn - Gothamist
UES NYCHA Tenants Sue City To Demand Repairs - Patch
Tenants Sue For Repairs At Embattled East Side Public Housing Complexes - The City
"In its last iteration, the proposal for a half-luxury, half-affordable 50-story tower from Fetner Properties promised to raise $25 million for repairs.
