Strict Illegal Home Conversions May Add to the City’s Homeless Problem
Thousands of city tenants can be forced out of their homes with no long-term housing alternatives as the city cracks down on landlords who violate New York City’s Department of Buildings (DOB) construction guidelines. Landlords who illegally convert buildings to create additional housing without obtaining permits from DOB now face huge fines. The health and fire risks associated with such […]
Where Seasonal Work Can Be More Than Just a Holiday Gig
Every holiday season, the number of workers at Brooklyn-based online retailer UncommonGoods grows by the hundreds, swelling the company from its payroll of 200 employees to 1,000 or more. Jamel Venn-Simmons, 37, of East New York, is happy to be one of them. “They’re a really good company,” says Venn-Simmons, who tracks down merchandise for outbound packages. “On the weekends they give us […]
News Literacy in Action
A consumer’s responsibility to seek the truth should mirror a journalist’s obligation to tell the truth. This marriage represents the ideal highway of communication between two factions important to “organized community journalism” in a free and self-governing nation (Kovach & Rosenstiel 32). While news literacy is contingent on two parts working together, journalists are responsible for the verification process in […]
NYComicon 2017 – A Profile
The whimsical world of cosplay descended on Gotham City this weekend, filling the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center with thousands who represented all things pop culture during the 11th annual New York Comic Con. On the third day of the convention, sometime late afternoon, a Game of Thrones fandom troupe huddled for an HBO photo op, while the likeness of […]
Update: Quaglione Says DOT Needs To Give Drivers More Notice Before Towing
This article was originally posted on Kings County Politics, but since the Department of Transportation did not respond to me within a reasonable time period, the editor ran the story without DOT’s input. I thought it imperative to inform the constituents of Bay Ridge about a caveat DOT mentioned in their response concerning street paving and ticket adjudication.
Photojournalist Sean Gallagher Speaks at CUNY
More than 50 CUNY students and staff gathered to watch celebrated photographer Sean Gallagher connect photography and environment this evening at City University of New York (CUNY)’s Guttman Community College. Gallagher, an English native, has spent the last decade in Asia photographing the corners of the continent while narrating the region’s response to climate change. Gallagher’s hour-long lecture and Q […]
Mayor Vows J’Ouvert Security Tight as Times Square on New Year’s Eve
Mayor Bill de Blasio came to the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library this morning to announce that security measures at this year’s J’Ouvert celebration will resemble enforcement procedures of the New Year’s Eve gathering in Manhattan’s Times Square. De Blasio, who announced along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, City Councilmember Jumanee Williams (D-Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood) and police […]
