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News of the Week
One More Casualty of COVID-19: The Death of El Cocotero ([link removed])
An estimated 5,000 restaurants across the city were predicted to shutter by February 2021 due to the pandemic. While there’s no officially tally, the loss of Latino-led businesses in New York was already a worrisome trend prior to the crisis.
Policy Shop: Hate Crimes and Climate Change Get Attention from Candidates ([link removed])
So did healthcare, education, crimes against workers and transportation.
New Programs Needed to Address Declining Black Homeownership in NYC: Report ([link removed])
Black homeowners pay more than white residents when purchasing a home and face other financial challenges that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report found.
Two Bronx Council Races Undecided as Ranked-Choice Voting Kicks In ([link removed])
In District 11, which covers the northwest Bronx, Eric Dinowitz led with 42 percent of the vote. Tenant lawyer Oswald Feliz led the pack in District 15, in the central Bronx, with 28 percent of first-round votes.
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** Pandemic Delays for Consular Services Upend Immigrants’ Lives
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** Max & Murphy on the Issues:
Health
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COVID-19 has elevated health to the top of the issues candidates for municipal office in 2021 must talk about. But what are the health issues the city must deal with? Who are the players? And what are the questions all voters should ask the candidates promising to make New York City a healthier place?
** NYC, A Year Later:
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** Una Ciudad sin Límites
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El estado postpone temporalmente el requisito de “orden de desalojo” para el programa de suplemento de alquiler familiar ([link removed])
El cambio suspenderá el requisito de “orden de desalojo” para el Suplemento para la Falta de Vivienda Familiar y la Prevención del Desalojo (FHEPS, por sus siglas en inglés) donde los solicitantes tenían que mostrar prueba de que el propietario había presentado una orden de desalojo en su contra en el tribunal de vivienda.
Un año después del inicio de la pandemia en Nueva York, restaurantes latinos y administrados por inmigrantes siguen cerrando sus puertas ([link removed])
Los pedidos a domicilio o para recoger son menos de un tercio de las ventas necesarias para operar dice la más reciente encuesta de New York State Restaurant Association (Asociación de Restaurantes del estado de Nueva York).
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Opinions on Policy and Politics
Opinion: Let’s Transform NYC’s Waterfront Street-Ends for Equitable Water Access ([link removed])
‘Places to enter and exit the harbor safely in canoes, kayaks, rafts, sailboats, and rowboats, to educate by interacting with the water—or just to touch the water—remain strangely scarce for a city of over 8 million people.’
Opinion: Reinstate the Environmental Bond Act to Aid New York’s Recovery ([link removed])
‘Building safe and healthy communities with clean air, clean water, good-paying jobs and access to nature must be the focus of our state’s climate plans. The $3 billion Environmental Bond Act can help pave the way.’
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