The Department of Racial and Social Justice invite all to the 2026 Juneteenth Flag Raising ceremony on Tuesday, June 16th at 12pm at City Hall
There will be a short speaking program, light refreshments, and community gathered together to honor Black heritage, resilience, and joy!
“Since New York City introduced congestion pricing, the state has heralded significant reductions in traffic and rush hour delays, fewer crashes and noise complaints, & toll revenue projected to hit $500 million by the end of 2026.
Now, Cornell researchers have tallied the environmental benefits.”
Sweeps are not only immoral, they are counterproductive. They leave vulnerable worse off and many times set them back further from getting the support they need to get housed.
I believe we have a Home Rule Petition in the works for this, but it’s worth noting that’d be unnecessary if we can get the MA house and senate to pass these bills: H.3587/S.2334
news.cornell.edu
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA
More seriously, we're trying to get a "cultural trust" approved at the state house - which is a rough analogue of the community land trust. That cultural trust would intermediate and do the bureaucracy to help those little guys.
That is not yet available. It is in the planning stages.
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