Hundreds of tenants and rental brokers descended on City Hall Wednesday to debate legislation that would stop landlords from passing broker fees onto tenants.
Fervently chanting “Amadou! Amadou!” a large crowd of Bronx residents, activists, lawmakers, and clergy joined family members of both the late Amadou Balio Diallo and other young, Black men killed by police in the Soundview section of The Bronx on Saturday, Feb. 3, for a vigil marking the 25th anniversary of Diallo's death. According to police and media reports at the time, Diallo, a Muslim Guinean, died after he was shot 19 times by police on Wheeler Avenue in Soundview shortly after midnight on Feb. 4, 1999. He was unarmed and aged 23.
This year’s Physical Needs Assessment showed a 73 percent leap from the last report in 2017 a staggering change NYCHA has attributed to inflation and construction costs.
Across the street from where Donald Trump was being arraigned, Brooklyn Councilmembers Sandy Nurse and Chi Osse were handing out orange whistles to drown out the Republican's high-profile protesters.