Claudia Irizarry Aponte
Reporter at THE CITY
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5 days ago |
thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado |Katie Honan |Claudia Irizarry Aponte |Anna Oakes
Neither rain nor an extreme heat warning could keep New Yorkers in the five boroughs away from polling stations Sunday, the final day of early voting ahead of the city’s June 24 primary. As of Saturday, the eighth day of early voting, 305,896 New Yorkers had cast their ballots, more than double the number of early voting check-ins during the same period in 2021, although turnout then was impacted by the COVID pandemic.
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1 week ago |
thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte |Katie Honan
The state’s highest court has overruled a state Supreme Court judge’s decision that had barred the administration of Mayor Eric Adams from switching the city’s quarter-million retirees to a privatized Medicare Advantage plan, in a blow to retirees aiming to preserve their traditional Medicare coverage.
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3 weeks ago |
thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte
Last winter, Virginia tearfully relayed an incident from the previous holiday season, when she and other workers at a Cypress Hills sweatshop waited for hours to receive their promised back pay after confronting the owners of the tobacco-processing business.
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3 weeks ago |
thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte
A New Jersey man and two associates were criminally charged Wednesday for their role operating a tobacco-processing empire in the heart of Brooklyn, with prosecutors alleging they failed to pay two dozen immigrant workers — most of them middle-aged mothers from Ecuador — hundreds of thousands of dollars in owed wages and made them work under illegally hazardous conditions.
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4 weeks ago |
thecity.nyc | Claudia Irizarry Aponte
As some City Council members push to bring job protections and paid sick leave to food delivery workers, industry giants Uber and DoorDash are spending millions of dollars to influence next month’s Democratic primary — backing some incumbents, seeking to topple others and investing in open seats. The tech platforms’ spending blitz follows a first-in-the-nation minimum pay rate for food delivery workers, based on the Council’s similar scheme for ride-hail drivers.
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