Immigrant group alleges NYPD fails to provide interpreters for limited-English speakers
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant rights organization Make the Road New York has filed a complaint against the NYPD, alleging that the department has…
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NYC Stands to Lose $150M in Services, 1,000 City Jobs with Latest GOP Sanctuary City Bill
Leave your thoughtsCity Hall and local advocates remained opposed to the latest Republican-led effort to cut federal funds for local governments that…
Thousands of New Yorkers now eligible for paid sick days
Leave your thoughtsLess than two weeks after it was signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, an expanded law making hundreds of thousands…
Underpaid car wash workers to receive $2.2 million
Leave your thoughtsOwners of a series of New York City car wash chains must pay hundreds of their workers more than $2.2…
Six months after Sandy, residents struggle with stubborn mold
Leave your thoughtsWhen Hurricane Sandy hit Jackie Rogers’ home in Far Rockaway, the last thing she was worried about was a mold…
New Yorkers ask cops to stop confiscating condoms
Leave your thoughtsClara Sierra was leaving a club after a nice night out when cops accused her of being a prostitute. Sierra,…
Female pols push Quinn for sick-days vote
Leave your thoughtsFive days home sick from work with a paycheck – that is what might stand between Council Speaker Christine Quinn…
Occupy Wall Street protests Mitt Romney with mock funeral procession
Leave your thoughtsOccupy Wall Street protesters [including members of Make the Road New York] are rallying outside the Waldorf-Astoria hotel today, where…
War on Wall Street May 12
Leave your thoughtsThousands [including members of Make the Road New York] descended on the Financial District yesterday to protest the $400 million…
Overcrowding at NYC school
Leave your thoughtsThe fact that New York City public schools are badly overcrowded is not news. But one Queens school is so…