Each night, Tsomo Dasel, the owner of Himalayan Yak restaurant on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, lets some of her staff leave work hours before closing. The measure is protective: Most of her employees, she said, are female and are regularly accosted by men on the street seeking paid sex.
Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that the city would up its effort to cut down illegal vending, littering and sex trafficking on Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue. But critics said the mayor’s dedication to cleaning up the notorious street in Western Queens sounded eerily familiar to his past efforts to cut back on crime on Roosevelt, leading some to wonder if the new plan will actually lead to any lasting change.
Caucus progresista del Concejo Municipal, conformado por siete hispanos, presiona para que mandatario deje el cargo.
New York City voters will most likely be confronted in November with a referendum that may dilute the City Council’s power on public safety issues, thanks to a panel formed by the mayor.
Demonstrators protested Tuesday evening, days after the NYPD announced they would not discipline the police officers involved in the death of Kawaski Trawick. "Mayor [Eric] Adams should be ashamed of himself as a father and as a Black man for not firing the police who murdered my son," said organizer Keith Fuller as he read a statement from the Trawick family.
Elected officials and criminal justice advocates held a press conference outside City Hall to react to the decision not to fire the two NYPD officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick. Trawick, an aspiring dancer who suffered from mental health issues, was living in a supportive housing facility in the Bronx when he called 911 on the night of April 14, 2019.
“You’re called school safety agents, but you’re not giving the school safety,” said Jolie S., a high school junior from…
“It feels like PR,” said Kesi Foster, a leader at Make the Road NY, which advocates for immigrant and minority…
“I would like to see all the police that were committed in this crime arrested and fired from their jobs…
Make the Road New York, an activist organization, organized the event. Adilka Pimentel, a lead organizer with the group, said…
