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Community Board 5 offers little hope for pedestrians seeking a reprieve from speeding e-bikes

September 9, 2022 by Talia Barrington

A motion-blurred delivery worker rides his e-bike onto the sidewalk. He wears a blue puffy jacket and carries a red delivery bag on his back.

NEW YORK – The debate regarding unsafe e-bike usage continued Thursday night as Manhattan’s Community Board 5 fielded calls to action on zoom from residents of New York’s most densely populated district. One Midtown resident, who was introduced on the Zoom meeting as Charles, voiced her concerns, saying she has witnessed e-bike riders running red […]

Filed Under: Politics, Uncategorized

M.T. A. to launch pilot program testing subway platform screen barriers

April 21, 2022 by kanita tariq

Riders wait at a subway station

On Wednesday, Feb. 23, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced the launch of a pilot program to test platform screen barriers in subway stations after years of arguing against the idea. These barriers will be tested at three stations: the E line platform at the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station in Queens, the L line platform […]

Filed Under: Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: MTA, New York City, subways, transportation

Thousands gather in Times Square in support of Ukraine

March 9, 2022 by Asher Fields

A woman holds a sign written in both English and Ukrainian

NEW YORK — “We’re not angels, Russia’s not the devil, but what they’re doing is wrong,” said Karen Cahn, a protester in Times Square on Saturday, March 5. Cahn, like thousands of others, showed up for a rally organized by Razom for Ukraine, a nonprofit dedicated to the betterment of Ukraine. The rally, one of […]

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LGBTQ Adults Condemn Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

February 28, 2022 by Grace Symes

Edward Martí Kring knew from a young age that he was different, but he couldn’t say the word gay. To him, gay was synonymous with bad, and he knew he was a good person. It wasn’t until he joined a confidential LGBTQ club at his Florida high school that he started to change his opinion […]

Filed Under: Politics, Social Justice Tagged With: Don't Say Gay, Florida, LGBT, politics

One Million Voices Rally: A fight for immigrant suffrage

January 26, 2022 by Caroline Coyer

Listen to this story as it appeared on WNYU here. Immigrant New Yorkers deserve a voice in their city. A super-majority has been secured on Introduction 1867, which would expand the right to vote in municipal elections to immigrant New Yorkers with legal permanent resident status or work authorization. To celebrate this achievement, on June […]

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Legalized Marijuana Has Arrived In New York, Many Awaiting New Rules

May 14, 2021 by Maria Sanz Bentivegna

New York officials have yet to roll out fresh regulations now that the state has joined more than a dozen others that have legalized marijuana and cannabis to help boost revenue. Andrew Rosner, the co-founder of HR Botanicals, a small farm located in Sullivan county New York that grows a species of marijuana known as […]

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How Will Reparations Move Forward In America?

May 12, 2021 by Aidan Taylor

Photo by Life Matters from Pexels

A bill that would advance the fight for reparations is moving up the legislative ladder in Congress, opening the door for a national conversation about how America will finally address reparations after 400 years of enslavement of African Americans.  Since slavery’s abolishment 150 years ago in the United States, a path to carrying out overdue […]

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The Yang Gang Just May Be Behind Yang’s Success

May 12, 2021 by Sarah Unterberger

Andrew Yang’s fresh face and bold ideas struck a chord with voters around the U.S during the Democratic presidential primary. Now the original members of the “Yang Gang” are ushering in his success in the New York City mayoral race.  The Yang for New York campaign conducted a poll of 824 likely Democratic primary voters […]

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NYU International Students Face Additional Pandemic Hurdles

April 7, 2021 by Elle Liu

Elle Liu Cooper Squared

The Covid-19 health pandemic created a new set of hurdles for international students at New York University from travel restriction to securing visas, leaving many bewildered about what to do next and causing enrollment rates to  drop. As student lives were abruptly uprooted across the United States last March, more than a million international students […]

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New York Legalizes Marijuana

April 7, 2021 by Jack Gordon, Laura Beard, Rachel Fadem, Kiana Turner

On March 31, 2021, New York legalized the use of recreational marijuana. See what people in NYC’s Washington Square Park think about the new legislation. By Laura Beard, Rachel Fadem, Jack Gordon, and Kiana Turner      

Filed Under: Multimedia, Politics, Video Tagged With: marijuana, new york, New York Legalizes Marijuana, New York Legalizes Weed, Weed

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