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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 […]

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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: News, 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: News, 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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Looking Toward Chinatown’s Future

November 30, 2021 by Isaac Tay

Chinatown will receive $20 million in funding from winning the fifth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI), Governor Kathy Hochul announced in November 2021. last Wednesday.  The funding will be used to help increase housing, improve connectivity and create new arts and cultural spaces to attract more tourists to the area.  The grant is […]

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The Rise of Asian American Presence in American Politics

November 23, 2021 by Isaac Tay

Asian Americans are beginning to see more faces like them in the political sphere after a long history of being under-represented. Last November, Michelle Wu became the first Asian American, first woman, and first person-of-color to ever become the mayor of Boston, and in New York City, five new Asian Americans joined the City Council, […]

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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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