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Fewer than 1,700 affordable housing units were built in New York City in the first nine months of this year, according to a new analysis by a housing advocacy group. The paltry figure emerged in a report, released by Metro IAF New York, that also found the construction of only 45 of those units began under the leadership of Gov. Hochul. “Without a doubt, these numbers demonstrate a serious ...
Beginning Saturday, Sept. 16, the St. Paul Community Baptist Church will be hosting “The MAAFA Suite...A Healing Journey.”
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Happy Easter in this city of many faiths. New York, long lambasted by know-nothing “real American” precursors of Marjorie Taylor Greene as a place of sin and godlessness, has always been brimming with churches. By one count, there are 4,000 Christian houses of worship of every denomination, size, age and color — along with an estimated 1,000 synagogues and 100 mosques.
A program organized more than 40 years ago by East Brooklyn churches helped build a community within a destitute neighborhood, and has since enabled hundreds of first-time homeowners to build equity - and hope for the future.
File it under depressingly predictable: Wednesday and Thursday, Senate Republicans and Democrats were running into political friction as they tried to turn the modest set of "breakthrough" gun safety proposals into actual legislation. Though we are decidedly underwhelmed by the ideas -- including incentives to states to enact "red flag" laws; extra scrutiny of young gun buyers; and more spending on mental health care and school safety -- it would be an epic failure if, in the wake of two galvanizing mass shootings by 18-year-old's and amid record gun violence, nothing ...