Food Insecurity In NYC Rises Precipitously By Sophia Chang, Gothamist. November 19, 2020 Food Insecurity In NYC Rises Precipitously2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/food-e1605831763198.jpg200px200px Above photo: In Washington Heights, people line up beside a pop up food pantry for canned goods, cartons of milk and bags of fruits. Gwynne Hogan/Gothamist/WNYC. No Federal Help In Sight. Food pantries in NYC are struggling to keep up with a dramatic increase in demand for […]
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A worker prepares to check stacks of ballots in July at a Board of Elections facility in New York City. The city’s election board says it will send about 100,000 new absentee ballots to voters after mailing out error-filled ones. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP A worker prepares to check stacks of ballots in July at a Board of Elections facility in New […]
Dozens of voters in the NYC borough of Queens have received military absentee ballots, despite never having served. While the Board of Elections has insisted the ballots are “correct,” some fear their votes could be challenged. Reports from concerned Queens civilians who’d received forms labeled “official absentee military ballot for the general election” began proliferating on social media over the weekend. They may have gone out […]
The union asked state authorities to intervene in New York City schools, just days before schools are set to open for in-person instruction. (Image credit: Mark Lennihan/AP) Source link
We’re teetering on the brink of an unthinkable future. Our democracy hangs by a thread. “How are you doing?” feels like a useless greeting; everything is bad now. Americans are simultaneously fed up and burned out. We feel a fiery rage and debilitating grief. But hey: at least Katie Holmes is having a good time. The 41-year-old actress is, as the New York Post put it […]
In the wake of last Monday’s arrest of a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer charged with spying for Beijing, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a New York Post interview on Wednesday accused the Chinese consulate in NYC of “crossing the line from normal diplomacy”, describing the embassy as an espionage hot spot on US soil. James M. Olson, former chief of counterintelligence […]
A former assistant at a well-known New York City investment bank sued her previous employer on Tuesday, alleging she was wrongfully terminated in August after complaining about walking in on one of her bosses masturbating in the conference room. Logan Williams, a former member of the United States Coast Guard, filed the suit against Marathon Capital in Manhattan federal court, claiming she endured a “discriminatory and […]
At Middle School 839 in Brooklyn, teachers say there aren’t enough custodial staff on hand to carry out the city’s recommended pandemic cleaning plan. The electrostatic sprayer for disinfecting surfaces is missing parts and doesn’t work, they allege, while classroom windows only open three inches, making ventilation an issue. And the school only has about two weeks worth of face masks instead of the 30-day supply […]
There is a building on Lexington Avenue in the 70s that’s easy to ignore. Its facade is three stories of rain-streaked beige in a sea of taller apartment blocks and tonier shopfronts. A slate-grey door with a faded gold mail slot hides in a recess on the ground floor. Its intercom has four buttons, three of which are covered with tape. The fourth, however, is shiny […]
New York City is not dead, but the Hamptons have sure had a good pandemic so far. From Southampton to Montauk, the exclusive holiday towns strung along the south fork of Long Island have been hopping all summer. Unsurprisingly, many New Yorkers who can afford it are now planning to stay out east until coronavirus is no longer a threat. It’s a prospect that could change […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would only allow indoor dining to resume in New York City if the NYPD sets up a task force to enforce social distancing rules, as restaurants sue authorities for $2 billion, citing “irreparable harm.” Cuomo addressed reopening businesses in NYC and elsewhere during a press call on Thursday, saying “compliance and enforcement” would drive the state’s guidance on lifting sweeping shutdowns […]
New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at New Bridges Elementary School in Brooklyn on Aug. 19. Carranza has said that without an infusion of cash, thousands of city education jobs could be lost. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at New Bridges Elementary School in Brooklyn on Aug. […]
Many of New York’s streets have come alive with fenced-in dining areas with tables and umbrellas and decorated with flower boxes and hanging plants. (Image credit: Rob Kim/Getty Images) Source link
New York City Councilman Paul Vallone came out this week and credited Hydroxychloroquine for saving his life. The New York Post reported: A Democratic New York City Councilman says hydroxychloroquine saved his life after a near-fatal run-in with COVID-19 in March. Paul Vallone, who represents northeast Queens, took the drug along with a standard Z-pack — given for bacterial infections — and came back from the […]
Mutual Aid Unites NYC Neighbors Facing COVID-19 By James Ives, News Medical. August 5, 2020 Mutual Aid Unites NYC Neighbors Facing COVID-192020-08-052020-08-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/bed-stuy-e1596643728973.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Ioby. It’s about love and solidarity. Nancy Perez, a 45-year-old resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, contracted COVID-19 in March. She stayed quarantined in her room for a month to isolate from her two sons and grandson. A few days […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has a strange sense of priorities. Crimes and murder in the city are out of control, millions of people are still out of work, businesses have been destroyed by rioters, and de Blasio is devoting as many as 27 of the city’s remaining police officers to guarding the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower. That’s what […]
Four people have been arrested for splattering blue paint on the state-sanctioned Black Lives Matter eyesore painted in the road outside Trump Tower in New York City. The brave activists shouted “Blue Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter” as they painted over the city-approved vandalism. Group of Trump supporters splattered blue paint onto BLM mural outside Trump Tower, saying “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter”. […]
At least two people were arrested after vandalizing a Black Lives Matter mural near Trump Tower in New York City, prompting a heavy police response and a face-off with activists in the mural’s second defacing in a matter of days. A group of some 10 people gathered around the art installation in New York City’s Midtown on Friday – a massive street painting of the words […]
A former assistant to tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, whose dismembered body was found in his luxury Manhattan apartment earlier this week, was taken into custody by the NYPD on Friday. Tyrese Haspil, 21, was being held in connection with the gruesome slaying of the 33-year-old startup whiz. He was expected to be charged with homicide. A law enforcement source told The Daily Beast that detectives began […]
Dozens of immigrant workers have begun a joint 24-hour fast and sleep-out outside billionaire Jeff Bezos’ $16 million penthouse in Manhattan, to lobby New York authorities to tax the wealthy to help the pandemic-affected poor. High-profile Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among those behind a campaign to push New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to further tax the mega-rich in the state and use the revenue generated to […]
In response to a viral video of a Bronx man putting an officer in a headlock, that outraged police unions, New York mayor Bill de Blasio said there is “a lot to do to heal the relationship between police and the community.” “That starts with standing together and advancing reforms, but it also means we cannot accept violence against our police officers,” de Blasio added in […]
Comments from Alexandria Ocasi-Cortez on her theory about crime spiking in New York City have gone viral and been slammed relentlessly, as the congresswoman believes it all boils down to people being broke and hungry. Asked about the increase in crime in her city during a recent virtual town hall, Ocasio-Cortez connected the stats to a bad economy putting people in desperate situations. “Do we think […]
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has banned all large public events for the next three months, citing the Covid-19 pandemic – only to make a belated exception for Black Lives Matter rallies, incensing Americans far outside the city. Fresh off painting a giant “Black Lives Matter” mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, the mayor took to CNN to expand on his office’s […]
The pro-Trump organization Women for America First has sent a formal request to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio requesting a permit to paint a street mural similar to the Black Lives Matter one he allowed outside Trump Tower. “We have retained counsel should de Blasio continue infringing upon our Constitutional rights,” the organization’s founder Amy Kremer tweeted with the annoucement. BREAKING: @America1stWomen has sent […]
Michael Cohen, the former attorney of US President Donald Trump, is back in federal custody after reportedly refusing to comply with conditions necessary for his home confinement agreement with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). “On May 21, 2020, Mr. Cohen was placed on furlough pending placement on home confinement,” a Bureau of Prisons official noted in a Thursday statement, according to ABC News. “Today, Michael Cohen […]
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray joined activists on Thursday to paint Black Lives Matter on the street in front of Trump Tower. De Blasio does this as violence soars in his city and businesses are still locked down. Advertisement – story continues below Later Thursday afternoon, the Commie mayor told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he is banning all large […]
New York City workers, community leaders and volunteers joined together Thursday morning to paint the phrase “Black Lives Matter” along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, which runs in front of US President Donald Trump’s Trump Tower. Following in the footsteps of Washington, DC, San Francisco, Hollywood, Chicago and several other cities across the nation, New York City residents painted a “Black Lives Matter” mural in massive letters across […]
The story of the economy as told by five macroeconomic indicators including Chinese stocks, New York City real estate, coronavirus cases and more. In this extended Brief, NLW tells the story of the economy through five themes: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is […]
Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to federal lockup in NYC ahead of her court date. Jeffrey Epstein’s pimp Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested last Thursday morning by the FBI, and now she faces two counts of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, two counts of conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and two counts of perjury. […]
Three people were murdered in New York overnight into Thursday, in line with a grim trend that saw police responding to the highest number of shootings in over 20 years last month amid a leftist push to divest from the force. The murders took place in the space of 20 minutes early on July 2, as two men were shot in the back of their heads […]
Christians and Jews are being openly persecuted against in the United States while Black Lives Matter militants are given special treatment. There is zero equality under the law. This is pure Marxism. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday defended his decision to ban religious gatherings while allowing Black Lives Matter militants and Antifa domestic terrorists to raise hell in the streets. TRENDING: Woke Harvard Senior […]
Amid a larger cultural reckoning with race following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, employees at the historic American Kennel Club were hoping to join a number of other companies and organizations in making Juneteenth a company holiday. Instead, while the nonprofit’s staff were hard at work that day, they received a brief email: Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, […]