In the annual right of spring known as the "budget dance,” the heads of New York City’s three public library systems testified Monday at the City Council to
"Trees cross party lines and geographic lines. They are the great uniter," said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, who with his fellow borough presidents is pushing City Hall to commit to funding the additional plantings in the sustainability plan the administration will publish in April.
In April 2015, Diana Florence was a longtime prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's office thinking about retirement. But a phone call about the death of an immigrant laborer at a building site changed her plans. And it went on to upend how New York State addresses construction fatalities.