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Anxiety Is Side Effect of Staffing Cuts at Sept. 11 Health Program

3 days ago | thecity.nyc | Katie Honan

Layoffs at the federal World Trade Center Health Program have caused “chaos,” leaving members and city agencies alike unsure who to contact when city employees face delays in lifesaving care, according to officials, insiders and advocates. The program, which began a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attack, provides medical services to impacted individuals and studies 9/11-related illness.
Sanitation Pauses Fines for Failing to Compost

6 days ago | thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado

The Adams administration announced Friday it is relaxing its enforcement on violations of a new citywide composting mandate, just weeks after it began issuing fines. Since October, all city residents have been required to separate their food waste and yard trimmings from other trash, and owners of properties with at least four apartments have had to set out bins for curbside collection. The Department of Sanitation began issuing fines for noncompliance on April 1.
Your Cheat Sheet on Big Money in Local Politics

6 days ago | thecity.nyc | Katie Honan

This article is adapted from our April 17 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers,This week, we found out that five mayoral candidates will get millions of dollars in taxpayer-supported matching funds, according to the latest disclosure from the city’s Campaign Finance Board. Noticeably absent from that list was frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, whose campaign blamed a technical error for the delay in qualifying for matching dollars.
Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants - for Feeding Migrants

6 days ago | thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado

The Trump administration has cancelled more than $1.3 million in federal emergency grants awarded to a Brooklyn food pantry to feed migrants, after advising the nonprofit it was suspected of violating U.S. law by serving food to “illegal aliens.”The move leaves the Campaign Against Hunger — which each year serves 17 million meals to over 1.5 million New Yorkers, including thousands of new arrivals — in a lurch.
Trump-Ordered Halt to Wind Power Construction Casts Shadow on Offshore Project

6 days ago | thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado

New York’s first major offshore wind project suspended construction on Thursday in response to a stop-work order issued by the Trump administration — also potentially altering the future course of a city-owned Brooklyn port used as home base to support the project. Empire Wind 1, developed by the Norwegian company Equinor, had just started work in the ocean off Long Island this month, after the land-side construction began last year.
Migrants in City Shelters Make Tough Decisions as Feds Warn: ‘It Is Time for You To Leave’

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

A Colombian mother of a ninth grader had planned to move her family out of their Brooklyn migrant shelter at the end of the school year. That was before she got a menacing email from Customs and Border Patrol last week telling her she had seven days to leave the country. “A fear enters you,” she said in Spanish.
Pressure Grows on Adams to Budget for Trump Funding Cuts and Recession

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Greg David

Mayor Eric Adams is coming under intense pressure to increase the city’s reserve funds as the threat grows of both big cuts to federal aid and an economic downturn that would reduce tax revenues. City Comptroller Brad Lander Wednesday called for the mayor to set aside about $1 billion in case of a recession and an additional $1 billion to be used in the event of cuts to federal aid, steps the mayor declined to take in his preliminary budget in January.
NYCHA Paid Out Millions to Bribe-Paying Contractors Implicated in Corruption Takedown

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Greg Smith

One year after a sweeping corruption takedown at the New York City Housing Authority, law enforcement’s scorecard reads like this: 64 convictions out of the 70 housing authority employees arrested on charges of taking cash bribes to hand out contracts to vendors performing public housing repairs. Dozens of NYCHA superintendents and assistant superintendents have received prison sentences ranging from six weeks to 48 months.
Urged by Trump Allies, Rep. Elise Stefanik Looks at a Run for NY Governor

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Daniella Diaz |Reese Gorman

“This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute.”President Donald Trump’s allies are pushing Rep. Elise Stefanik to mount a run for New York governor — and Stefanik is apparently considering it. After Trump withdrew her nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations over concerns about the House GOP’s narrow majority, Stefanik is now looking at a bid against incumbent Gov.
Framework in Place to Roll Back Some of New York’s Discovery Reform Law

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Reuven Blau

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Tuesday that lawmakers have a “framework” in place with Gov. Kathy Hochul to adjust the state’s discovery law, which had emerged as a key sticking point in the passage of New York State’s roughly $250 billion budget . “I just briefed my conference, and we’re in a good place,” Heastie, who declined to detail the new agreement, told reporters.