by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The City Council on Wednesday will approve a package of five bills intended to cut back on the number of scaffolds — known as sidewalk sheds — that have long darkened New York’s streets, and improve the aesthetics of the ones that must remain up. Several of the bills...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The New York City Council is set to pass a package of measures Wednesday to speed up the removal of the dreary, green, wooden structures that encase apartment buildings citywide — sometimes for years at a time. The sheds, colloquially known as “scaffolding,” protect...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Liu and Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, both said that sidewalk sheds set New York apart from cities in this country and in Europe. Levine said it was “hard to overstate” how sheds define the look of the city and the way the world sees New York. “When...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Moderate-income New Yorkers are increasingly becoming the face of eviction in the city, according to a new report by the Community Service Society of New York. The report titled “Preventing Eviction in New York State: What Works and What Doesn’t,” released on...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Walk down the streets of Manhattan or ride the subway late at night, and you see a painful truth: New Yorkers, many of whom are struggling with serious mental illness, caught in a cycle of neglect. Right now, our system fails them. It fails their families. And it...
