The workers - who earn an average of $26.45 an hour, or $55,000 a year - want to keep their benefits and increase their pay, which they say hasn t kept up with inflation.
In the coming days, the City Council is expected to vote on the Department of City Planning’s proposed rezoning of SoHo/NoHo. The project has been simultaneously lauded as an opportunity to deliver hundreds of new affordable units to an affluent, transit-rich area and loathed as a harbinger of displacement.
A Manhattan cop opened fire early Monday at suspected members of a high-end robbery ring casing a Manhattan restaurant who are possibly tied to last month’s shooting at Philippe Chow, police sources said.
city tonight. good evening. good evening. what is your sense of how the city is doing so far with hurricane katrina since the power is knocked out and it doesn t look like it will be on anytime soon? i won t know until the morning, and i was listening in to a radio station, and a lot of folks were calling from frederick, and there s lot of structural damage out there. one person called in and said there may be a case of a transmission line, and that s one of the big silver towers and when one of those go down it could take days to put them back up, and sometimes when we lose those it could be out in the marsh. that being said, it s going to be a challenge to get that grid