New York City (NYC)

City Excludes Parts Of Chinatown From Small Business Pandemic Loans

January 3, 2021 Sydney Pereira, Gothamist. Educate! CARES Act, Chinatown, New York City (NYC), Small Business

A city pandemic loan program intended to help out small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color has left out a swath of Manhattan's Chinatown. In late November, the city's Department of Small Business Services launched a $35 million low-to-moderate income storefront loan program. Small businesses in certain neighborhoods could receive up to $100,000 in a zero-interest loan. The funds would provide loans for at least 350 businesses across the city, depending on the size of loans allocated. To qualify, businesses need to have fewer than 100 employees and be located in a low- to moderate-income ZIP code. But not all of Chinatown—a "hard-hit" neighborhood that was reeling from economic impacts from COVID-19 even before the city became the epicenter of the pandemic—was included.

NYC Will Prohibit Major Fast Food Employers From Firing Workers Without ‘Just Cause’

December 19, 2020 Sydney Pereira, The Gothamist. Educate! Low Wage Workers, New York City (NYC), Worker Rights and Jobs

NYC fast food workers would get increased protections under two bills that passed in the City Council on Thursday. The two bills would increase protections for workers at large fast food companies, expanding upon worker protection laws passed in 2017. One measure would prohibit fast food employers from firing workers without "just cause," meaning showing the employee failed to meet job duties or has harmed the employer's business interests. Another would require that any layoffs occur by seniority, protecting workers who have been with a given company longer. Arbitration guidelines are laid out in the bills as well.

NYC Drivers Cooperative Aims To Smash Uber’s Exploitative Model

December 14, 2020 Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. Create! Cooperative, Drivers, New York City (NYC), Uber

Ken Lewis grew up on the island of Grenada, and witnessed the progressive aftermath of its 1979 revolution. “I remember the power of cooperatives, people getting land, turning places that were barren into productive places,” he says. That image stayed with him after he moved to New York City for grad school and started driving a taxi on the side. Now, several decades later, Lewis is finally getting a chance to put the power of cooperatives into practice, in service of the drivers he worked with for so long. He is one of three cofounders of The Drivers Cooperative (TDC), which aims to realize a long-held dream of socially conscious New Yorkers in a hurry: a ridesharing app that you can feel good about.

Tenants Take On The ‘City’s Worst Landlord’ With Rent Strike

December 1, 2020 Caroline Spivak, Curbed. Resist! Cancel the Rent, New York City (NYC), Rent Strike, Tenant Rights

Standing outside the four-story brick apartment building in Crown Heights she calls home, Jemiah Johnson took her turn with the black megaphone. “This building is literally killing us!” the 26-year-old mother shouted to the small crowd of neighbors waving homemade signs scrawled with phrases like DEFEND RENT STRIKERS and TENANT POWER. “My child is waking up three or four times in the middle of the night struggling to breathe.” At the November rally, she and her fellow mask-clad tenants described a long-standing pattern of neglect and shoddy repairs: crumbling ceilings, leaky pipes, walls caked with mold, repeated desultory work that never truly fixes anything.

Food Insecurity In NYC Rises Precipitously

November 19, 2020 Sophia Chang, Gothamist. Educate! Food Insecurity, New York City (NYC), Pandemic, Recession

Food pantries in NYC are struggling to keep up with a dramatic increase in demand for assistance due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has inflamed the already desperate situation faced by many New Yorkers living at the poverty line. Before the virus tore a hole through the city's economy, some 12% of residents were already reporting food insecurity fears. That percentage has jumped to 32% of surveyed residents, according to a new report from the Robin Hood Foundation -- underscoring the need for immediate federal help as local food pantries are stretched to the limit.

Israel Lobby Spreads More Lies About Palestine Groups At NYU

October 24, 2020 Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada. Educate! Higher Education, Israeli Lobby, New York City (NYC), Palestine

New York University has agreed to settle with the US Department of Education over allegations that the university had not appropriately responded to claims of anti-Semitism. Two attorneys filed the complaint last year on behalf of a student who alleged that she faced “two years of extreme anti-Semitism on the NYU campus which has created an intolerable and unlawful hostile atmosphere for Jewish students.” Echoing previous attempts by Israel advocates to silence Palestinian rights activists on campuses, the complaint accused Students for Justice in Palestine of creating the “hostile” climate due to the group’s criticism of Israel and its state ideology Zionism.

The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters

October 23, 2020 Ali Winston, Black Agenda Report. Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, Police violence, Rebellion2020

This summer in New York City was defined by protests. The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer drew hundreds of thousands into the streets in late May and early June, demonstrations that were fueled by violent confrontations with the NYPD in Union Square and downtown Brooklyn. On May 29, Officer Vincent D’Andraia was filmed throwing Dounya Zayer to the ground and calling her a “stupid fucking bitch.” Zayer suffered a concussion from the incident and also said she later had seizures .

Way Down In The Hole: Pipeline Lockdown

October 17, 2020 Kevin Duggan, Brooklyn Paper. Resist! climate crisis, New York City (NYC), Oil and Gas, Pipeline

Police arrested four protesters who locked themselves to a controversial National Grid fracked gas pipeline construction site in Williamsburg on Thursday morning. Two environmental advocates fastened each other to the underground tube for three hours while two more activists secured themselves to the active building site at the corner of Manhattan and Montrose avenues at around 9 am, protesting the utility company’s seven-mile fossil fuel pipe. “They don’t care about us. They never asked for our consent to come in here so we need to stop it because no politician is doing it for us,” said Pati Rodriguez...

Fracked Gas Pipeline In Brooklyn Continues

October 14, 2020 Jessy Edwards, BK Reader. Organize! climate crisis, Fracked Gas, New York City (NYC), Pipeline

New York City - Fracked gas could soon be running through a new pipeline near you, despite rising calls for construction on the North Brooklyn Pipeline to be halted immediately. National Grid started construction on the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project — also known as the North Brooklyn Pipeline — more than three years ago in May 2017. Now the first four phases of the pipeline are almost complete, and the utility wants to start running gas through it in the coming months, according to state filings.

Staff Refuse To Enter Unsafe School Building

September 10, 2020 District 75 P352X Special Education Staff, Popular Resistance. Resist! COVID-19, New York City (NYC), PPE, Public schools

Bronx, NY - The special education staff of P352X, composed of five different sites (buildings), will be coordinating a refusal to enter unsafe buildings. We have not received inspection reports from the UFT or the DOE for all five sites. When staff arrived on the first day, the promised PPE was not available and due to no fault of our administration, we still did not have enough information to have a plan for the first day back. Guidances from the department of education change and are updated daily.

Racialized Austerity: The Case Of CUNY

August 28, 2020 By Michael Fabricant and Steve Brier, Gotham Gazette. Create! Austerity, Higher Education, New York City (NYC), Systemic Racism

In the aftermath of the covid outbreak and in a moment of Black Lives Matter national organizing in response to police brutality the issue of racial justice has lit up cities and towns across the country. Racist policing practices have had a huge impact on public opinion, with polling data showing that even more white suburban voters favor policy reforms. The shift has been public, sudden, and potentially electorally-decisive during this political season. What remains less visible are racialized and racist choices to deepen state disinvestment in institutions critical to the health and welfare of Black and brown communities, what we term racialized austerity.

New York City’s Newest Neighborhood: Abolition Park

August 13, 2020 Amba Guerguerian, The Indypendent. Create! Mutual Aid, New York City (NYC), Occupy, Police Abolition

At the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall Park lies in a cold-stone land where law and order rule. The area is defined by French Renaissance-style courthouses and municipal buildings. The NYPD’s headquarters is across the street and the Manhattan Detention Complex, colloquially referred to as “the Tombs” by many, is a short walk away. While the park provides one of the only green spaces in the concrete-scape of Lower Manhattan, it does not have a laid-back, community ambiance the way that many smaller New York parks do.

New York City: Protest Leader Targeted In Police Raid

August 9, 2020 Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist. Educate! Black Activists, New York City (NYC), NYPD, Police abuse

The failed NYPD raid that brought riot cops, police dogs and helicopters to a prominent Black Lives Matter activist's home on Friday was sparked by his alleged crime of shouting into an officer's ear with a megaphone nearly two months ago. Derrick Ingram, the 28-year-old co-founder of the Warriors in the Garden collective, said he awoke to cops with the NYPD's warrant squad banging at his door at 7 a.m. on Friday. For the next five hours, dozens of officers — stationed outside Ingram's apartment in Hell's Kitchen, on his fire escape and in a neighboring unit — urged him to surrender, claiming they had a warrant, but declining to provide one.

As New York Eviction Moratorium Ends, Tension Escalates

August 7, 2020 Popular Resistance. Resist! Cancel the Rent, Evictions, New York City (NYC), Recession

Dozens of New Yorkers marched through the streets of Brooklyn Wednesday morning before entering two landlord attorney firms buildings and Brooklyn Borough Hall calling for a ban on evictions and cancellation of rent in the Big Apple. The demonstration comes just hours before New York's residential eviction moratorium expires, leaving thousands of tenants vulnerable to homelessness. Fears are mounting over how many residents will manage to keep a roof over their heads as dismal research released at the end of July revealed almost half of New York renters were unable to pay rent.

Mutual Aid Unites NYC Neighbors Facing COVID-19

August 5, 2020 James Ives, News Medical. Create! COVID-19, Mutual Aid, New York City (NYC), Recession

Nancy Perez, a 45-year-old resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, contracted COVID-19 in March. She stayed quarantined in her room for a month to isolate from her two sons and grandson. A few days before she got the virus, she'd met a volunteer with Bed-Stuy Strong — one of the many mutual aid groups around the country that have rallied to provide help in the face of the pandemic. Bed-Stuy Strong assembled an army of volunteers to help vulnerable neighbors with food deliveries and basic supplies.

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