What Happens When a New York City Landlord Threatens to Call ICE?
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We hear from a lot of tenants who are afraid of losing their homes during the pandemic. (We also hear from a lot of small landlords who are worried, too. If you’re a small landlord,
When we teamed up with our friends at
Documented a nonprofit news organization that focuses on New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives we started getting questions about
what rights tenants have if landlords threaten to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (
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It’s no secret that in New York City, like much of the country, Black and Latino people suffer from worse health outcomes than white people, or that women are less likely to participate in the labor force than men. These kinds of gaps in equitable access to health care, education, employment and more have only become more apparent and pronounced during the coronavirus pandemic.
Now, a new city resource promises to make it easier than ever to observe just how pervasive some of those gaps are, with the eventual goal of eradicating those disparities. On Tuesday, the city launched EquityNYC, a website that pulls together data on social equity outcomes – in areas including health, education and economic security – with the data broken down by factors such as race, gender and income.
, claiming that the company failed to protect warehouse workers at facilities in Queens and Staten Island during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing inadequate health and safety protections in those facilities. As reported below, Amazon sued James last week in an attempt to preempt charges such as these, and to Tuesday’s suit that James’ claims didn’t represent an accurate picture of the company’s pandemic response.
In early March 2020, when little was still known about the new coronavirus, state and federal health authorities issued some broad guidance. Wash your hands frequently, avoid touching your face, keep a few feet of distance between yourself and others.
All Tessica Brown wanted was for her hair to be laid, but instead she found herself in a scary, sticky situation.
Brown went viral when she turned to social media for help after using heavy-duty Gorilla Glue spray on her hair to keep it in place after running out of Got2B glued hairspray, which she noted was a bad, bad, bad idea.
On Thursday, TMZ shared footage of Brown after she finally had the glue removed with the help of a plastic surgeon.
The woman, who s been dubbed Gorilla Glue Girl, says she washed her hair 15 times to no avail.
Vivian Lee and
Amanda Farinacci filed a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights. In the complaint, they say NY1’s parent company, Charter Communications, failed to fulfill an agreement to submit their entries for this year’s Emmy Awards. The five are represented by Wigdor, LLP.
Charter has refused to submit Roma Torre, Kristen Shaughnessy, Jeanine Ramirez, Vivian Lee and Amanda Farinacci for Emmy Award nominations for their work despite having previously agreed to do so. By refusing to submit them for Emmy Awards, which are among the most prestigious recognitions a television journalist can receive, Charter is materially harming their careers and retaliating against them, the complaint alleges.