Claudia Irizarry Aponte

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte

Unions representing teachers, federal workers and healthcare workers are seeking to reverse the Trump administration’s gutting of a little-known federal agency that provides crucial mediation services to help resolve labor disputes between workers and employers.

2 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte

For years, workers at Citywide Mobile Response, a Bronx-based ambulance service, griped about what they described as their absentee union. Whenever medical equipment and safe trucks were in low supply, they said, their complaints to management fell on deaf ears — and their union was nowhere to be found.

3 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte

Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared at a candidate forum for the first time on Thursday at a carefully choreographed event with nine mayoral hopefuls moderated by the Rev. Al Sharpton. A defiant Adams railed against the Democratic Party and former allies at the National Action Network’s annual convention in Times Square — while repeating attack lines about the media and the corruption case federal prosecutors had brought against him.

3 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte

A transgender tennis player is calling on the city’s Human Rights Commission and Parks Department to investigate an amateur tennis league, alleging Brooklyn Tennis League, a division of Tennis League Network, kicked her out last week after a cisgender female opponent complained about competing against a trans player. Cammie Woodman beat her opponent 6-2, 6-0 in what she described as a friendly match at Lincoln Terrace Park Tennis Courts in Crown Heights last week.

4 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte

Cash advance apps like Dave and EarnIn have charged New York consumers more than $500 million in hidden fees and “tips” since 2019, a new report estimates — allowing the loan platforms to thrive despite New York’s strict limits on consumer interest rates. The report from the New Economy Project concludes that borrowers in New York City account for nearly half of that amount, with an estimated $217 million siphoned from their paychecks during that period.