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As the state’s budget deadline approaches, Queens democratic lawmakers are at odds over whether it should include a path for legalizing the city’s basement and cellar apartments.
Seven workers' organizations have compiled a database on wage theft during the pandemic totaling $130.5 million owed to workers. The preliminary data from just seven groups dwarfs the nearly $3 million Gov. Kathy Hochul boasted of the state having recovered for workers last year. A preliminary version of this data has been shared with City Limits.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Monday ordered an emergency public fish salvage at Queens Reservoir about south of Eads along Highway 287 in Kiowa County due to declining water levels related to intensifying drought conditions.
Queens State Sen. Michael Gianaris wants New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to set aside $2.2 billion on rent relief as part of the state budget.
"We need this HERO Act to pass because without it, you canât call us heroes. You may as well just call us suckers, because we have to go into work, because if we donât, we wonât eat,â said Robert Williams, a chef who worked at an assisted-living facility in Queens throughout the height of the coronavirus pandemic. As the numbers of COVID cases and hospitalizations increase across the state, Mr. Williams, along with health-care staff, laundry workers and other essential workers, Dec. 17 renewed calls to pass the New York Health and Essential Rights Order, or NY HERO Act....