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“Let’s mobilize folks to the waterfront and establish the next generation of skilled workers."

Comptroller Brad Lander said the pension funds adopted a measurable and transparent plan that could serve as a model for other investors.

Called “Iftar On The Go”, the newly-announced event will distribute numerous zero-cost halal meals at Brooklyn’s Muslim American Society Youth Center over the course of four evenings in March and April.

City contracts are huge economic drivers, but minority and women-owned businesses, known as MWBEs, have largely been cut out of the procurement process.

According to the latest Comptroller's report, Black and Latino‐owned businesses each received under 2 percent of city contract dollars in fiscal year 2022, and only 5 percent of all new city contracts and purchase orders registered during that same period went to city‐certified minority or women‐owned business enterprises.

Two new resident-powered audits will examine the repair process and eviction rates in NYCHA developments.

New York had $14.6 billion in early February, twice as much as the same time a year earlier

In a letter to the city Board of Correction made public Tuesday, city Comptroller Brad Lander noted that the Correction Department seeks to give the contract to Securus Technologies with with “no competitive bidding, no request for proposals or scope of services provided.”

The estimated deficit for the next fiscal year is about $1 billion higher than the $2.9 billion projected by the mayor, according to Comptroller Brad Lander

The Culver El Affordable Housing Development in Brooklyn finally held its grand opening Sunday afternoon after 20 years of starts and stops along the planning