Why is supportive housing denies so many homeless applicants?
Bureaucracy? Money? Care? Instead of qualifying them before housing them, let them be housed why application is being processed!
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Nonprofit payment delays
Michael Sedillo replaces Johnny Celestin as head of Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services. Johnny Celestin was there for only six months (appointed June 2024) before being replaced. Why? Joint Taskforce to Clear the Backlog Initiative Action Memo was submitted to the Mayor on February 2022. Why did the problem persist nearly three years later? What…
Election Matters: Vote against those who favor Congestion Pricing!
I don’t have a car so it does not affect me. Really? Those who are passing on the toll will also pass on the additional cost to those not living in Manhattan! How does one measure whether Congestion Pricing is meeting its objectives and goals? If not, it should be abolished! All those State politicians…
Jeffrey Maddrey, NYPD Chief of Department resigned
We read about Quathisha Epps’ $164,477 base salary plus 1,627 hours of overtime as a lieutenant D/A Special Assignment at NYPD earning $403,516. Now we know that it was a quid-pro-quo authorized by the Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey!
Sheltering homeless can give you a $1m salary!
And that’s for those nonprofit contractors who reported the salary honestly! $916,000 for the CEO of Acacia Network Housing; more than $700,000 across multiple years for the head of Camba; $1 million for the CEO of CORE, Jack Brown — who in 2021 was also caught stacking the org’s payroll with buddies and set up for-profit vendors…
Unionized without a voice or vote!
The single-largest successful union petition in New York this past year is not at an Amazon warehouse or a university or hospital, but at a home care agency on the border of Bushwick and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Workers there did not vote to join their union, the Home Healthcare Workers of America. Instead, Anchor Home Healthcare…
How many contracts have sidestepped bidding rules?
“It appears that DOE did not follow any procurement process before selecting Illustrative Mathematics” for its $34 million “NYC Solves” initiative, writes Sean Mulcahy, senior vice-president of New Jersey-based Savvas Learning Company in a Nov. 26 letter obtained by The Post. We know this is done. How common is this problem and how much extra taxpayers have…
Pop Quiz: Who are they?
Why is it we know more about the killer, and less about the victim? Is it because of media satisfying public interest or that’s how our society is? How about the following two people? Who is the victim and who is the aggressor?
CPS Commissioner Jess Dannhauser
Commissioner for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Service, Jess Dannhauser, disagrees with whistleblower’s accusation. Even if the whistleblower is wrong, should not his/her allegation be looked into and verified?
$5 billion for 82k new homes: City of YES zoning
It passed the City Council 31 to 20. The City is to commit $60,975 per projected unit to invest in sewer projects, financing for affordable housing (Land Trust) development, legal services for homeowners, and down payment + rent vouchers. How much of the $5 billion will actually benefit homeowners and tenants directly? Will that information…