City Council Demands Answers After 7-Hour 911 Outage
BY NICHOLAS GUMBS New York City Council members pressed Office of Technology and Innovation services (OTI) at a City Hall hearing on September 9 …[read more]
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Community Educational Council for NY’s District 20 Debates AI Use in Classrooms
BY MATTHEW MUSOLINO Brooklyn’s Community Educational Council for District 20 opened the school year by debatingAI use and screen time, youth vaping, and enrollment issues …[read more]
Weekly Vigils Protest ICE at Metropolitan Detention Center
BY RIVER FLEISCHNER Every Tuesday at 6 pm for the last year, a vigil organized by Indivisible Brooklyn, a civic engagement group, and Good …[read more]
Council Committee Votes to Protect Overlooked African-American Burial Grounds
BY EDDY PRINCE A bill to honor African-American burial sites has finally moved forward after nine months in limbo, following a New York City …[read more]
City Council Committee on Housing and Building Holds Hearing for The Mayors New Housing Plan
By Cyrus Storlie Members of Zorhan Mamdani’s administration spent almost four hours Wednesday responding to a cordial and primarily procedural line of questioning from …[read more]
NY City Council Calls For 9/11 Education Curriculum
BY EMILY NIXON The New York City Council on Sept. 9 unanimously passed a resolution to call on the State Legislature to create a …[read more]
The Little Apple Opens in the Big Apple
BY ESTHER BOILEAU The Little Apple has just opened its first daycare center in the DCAS building at 1 Centre St. New York’s Department of …[read more]
Workers Come Together for Labor Day Rally and March
BY ALBINA CEKA New York City union members gathered in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan for a Labor Day Rally and then marched to Foley …[read more]
CUNY Programs Aim to Improve Graduation Rates
BY ROSSI SEALEY The City University of New York’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is making a difference in addressing low graduation rates in …[read more]
A Department on Life Support: Why Puerto Rican Studies At CUNY is Still Fighting for Survival
BY KAILA MACEIRA New York has the highest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the world outside Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican Studies across City University …[read more]