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Reply March 1, 2021 New York, NY – City Councils Small Business Committee is holding a hearing today at 1 p.m. on two bills providing civil penalty relief for small businesses, who for too long have been subjected to onerous fines from New York City. After conducting a year-long review of the extensive network of rules and regulations that apply to the Citys small businesses, the Council drafted legislation to permanently update more than 180 laws and to provide immediate relief to businesses...

Mayor Bill de Blasio today signed a package of legislation that will transfer jurisdiction of Rikers Island to the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and require a study of renewable energy generation and storage on Rikers Island. Intro. 1592-A transfers jurisdiction of portions of Rikers Island that are not in active use as a jail site to the Department of Citywide Administrative Services beginning July 1, 2021, with the full transfer of Rikers Island to DCAS to be completed by Aug...

January 27, 2021 Join Next City for the first of two virtual conversations in our series, “The Future of Monumentality,” as we examine the past, present, and future of public monuments from the unique intersection of art, design, and urbanism. The speaker series, moderated by New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet, is co-presented in partnership with the High Line. In 2020 communities around the world protested the institutional racism of police violence toward Black, Latinx, and Indigenou...

Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images NYC mayor says that he will support proposed street vendor bill Mayor Bill de Blasio has voiced his support for proposed legislation that would add 4,000 street vendor permits to the city’s system over the next 10 years, according to the New York Post. “This is something I’ve wanted to see for a long time,” de Blasio said, indicating that he would sign the bill into law if the City Council passes the measure. The City Counc...