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Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Senior housing development to rise on site of Boerum Hill parking lot, April 25th, 2025
“Transforming the parking lot on Third Avenue between Bergen and Wyckoff Streets into 100% deeply affordable, permanently rent-stabilized senior housing is exactly the kind of bold, community-driven solution we need to tackle our city’s affordability crisis, address low vacancy rates, and support the needs of our growing senior population,” said Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who represents the area. “I’m proud that my Council district ranks among the Top 10 in housing production citywide.”
AMNY: City Council approves sweeping protections for trans and gender-diverse communities, April 24th, 2025
The City Council on Thursday approved a broad legislative package aimed at strengthening civil rights protections and healthcare access for transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) individuals, marking one of the most comprehensive local efforts in the nation to safeguard gender-diverse communities.
Introduction 1201-A, sponsored by Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif, expands the city’s private right of legal action to include interference with gender-affirming care. The “Affirm Act” allows anyone traveling to New York for care to counter lawsuits from states with anti-trans policies.
“This bill will give our trans and gender non-conforming communities the legal power against those who attempt to criminalize or punish their care,” said Hanif. “New York City is and must remain a safe harbor, a place of protection, dignity, and access for all who seek gender care in our five boroughs.”
Gothamist: NYC Council to take up two bills aimed at preventing immigration services fraud, April 14th, 2025
The City Council Committees on Consumer and Worker Protection as well as Immigration will have a joint hearing to crack down on fraudsters looking to prey on the influx of migrants in New York City.
One bill, Intro 205, sponsored by Councilmember Shahana Hanif, looks at how messaging around immigration services is positioned around New York City…
The measures come as the Trump administration seeks to deport documented and undocumented immigrants alike, sparking outsize fear in the city’s booming immigrant population.
BK Reader: Brooklyn Marine Terminal Plan is Not Ready For Approval, Task Force Members Say, April 7th, 2025
Council Member Hanif won praise for criticizing EDC’s housing plan when she stated that it was "not acceptable" that 75% of their proposed housing were luxury units.
“We are in an affordability crisis and we want to build affordable housing and the best and easiest way to do that is on public land,” Hanif said.
Hanif and Nichols were especially critical of EDC’s community engagement process.
“Each time, as we neared a pivotal moment, it seemed very predetermined,” Hanif explained. “It seemed that we were arriving at a position that had already been decided on for us and so that's really frustrating.”
NY1: Councilmembers turn up heat on DOT for center-running bus lane on Flatbush Avenue, March 25th, 2025
Four city councilmembers — Shahana Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Rita Joseph and Crystal Hudson — want to see a center-running bus lane on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, signing a letter urging the DOT to take action.
“I recognize just how much of a necessity buses are for working people, for people with disabilities, folks trying to get to their hospital, childcare center, school,” Hanif said. “We need working buses. We need fast, reliable buses.”
Gothamist: NYC Council press officials to cut wait times for mobile mental health teams, March, 24th 2025
City Council members pressed health officials Monday on the long wait times New Yorkers with serious mental illnesses face when trying to enroll with teams that connect them with treatment and housing.
“These are extremely important programs and we are looking to expand them,” said Councilmember Shahana Hanif, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn.
PIX 11: City Council approves walk-in appointments for IDNYC,
March 14th, 2025
The popular IDNYC card is about to get easier to obtain for thousands of New Yorkers.
The New York City Council passed legislation on Wednesday that will allow for same-day and walk-in appointments at certain IDNYC service enrollment centers. It was one of many changes to the system to improve the application process.
The bill, sponsored by Councilmember Shahana K. Hanif, will also make it so that residents can find the earliest available date and time on any online appointment scheduling system.
PIX 11: City Council approves walk-in appointments for IDNYC,
March 14th, 2025
The popular IDNYC card is about to get easier to obtain for thousands of New Yorkers.
The New York City Council passed legislation on Wednesday that will allow for same-day and walk-in appointments at certain IDNYC service enrollment centers. It was one of many changes to the system to improve the application process.
The bill, sponsored by Councilmember Shahana K. Hanif, will also make it so that residents can find the earliest available date and time on any online appointment scheduling system.
Gothamist: NYC and state lawmakers push back on Trump’s executive order targeting gender-affirming care, March 10th, 2025
New York lawmakers are moving quickly to protect access to gender-affirming care for transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people in response to a sweeping executive order from President Donald Trump…
Councilmember Shahana Hanif of Brooklyn, a lead sponsor of the bill, said the legislation is necessary amid rising anti-trans rhetoric and protests.
“Anti-trans protests are on the rise nationwide, fueled by bigots emboldened by President Trump’s dangerous trans erasure agenda,” Hanif said. “In this increasingly hostile climate, we must use every tool available to ensure trans patients can access the care they need.”
The City: NYC Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Muted on Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda, March 6th, 2025
Castro declined to respond when Councilmember Shahana Hanif (D-Brooklyn) pressed him to outline what parts of the president’s agenda the Adams administration opposed, and what parts it’s actively fighting.
Hanif, for her part, said it was “quite embarrassing” that the commissioner of immigrant affairs “has nothing to say about the Trump Administration’s rollback on immigration protections and the mass deportation agenda.”
Daily News Opinion: Shahana Hanif on The child care fix NYC really needs, February 28th, 2025
With Universal 2-Care, we have the opportunity to increase capacity in child care deserts, assist working-class families who are at a breaking point in staying in the city they love, and boost billions into our local economy. My husband and I were both raised here and are better off for it. We want to be able to raise our kids in the city that has given us so much.
For us and so many other families, we need to pass Universal 2-Care now.
Brooklyn Paper: ‘Flagrant act of Islamophobia:’ NYPD investigates anti-Muslim incident at Kensington mosque, February 24th, 2025
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-Islamic incident outside a Kensington mosque last week after a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat was filmed shouting derogatory rhetoric at the house of worship.
“I am deeply disgusted by this flagrant act of Islamophobia at Masjid Nur-Al Islam, a local mosque in my district in Kensington — a space that has long served as a haven for immigrant elders, families, and youth who have the right to feel safe,” Hanif said. “Islamophobia, antisemitism, or any form of hate have no place in our city or country. Jews in Boro Park and Muslims in Kensington deserve to live, pray, and walk about their neighborhoods safely and without fear.”
Tip Theft Prevention Act aims to combat wage theft and union-busting for food service workers, February 17th, 2025
The Tip Theft Prevention Act, introduced in the City Council last week, aims to protect food service workers from stolen tips and union-busting tactics.
After Brooklyn food service workers noticed their paychecks were lower than expected, they realized tips left by customers paying with credit or debit cards were not reaching them. They brought their concerns to Council Member Shahana Hanif, who represents a swath of Brownstone Brooklyn in District 39.
“Workers deserve every penny that they’ve earned,” Hanif said in a statement. “I’m proud to be introducing the Tip Theft Prevention Act to ensure that workers receive the tips that customers have left for them in full. Daily reports on tips are an important mechanism to stop wages from being stolen.”
Shorter, More Affordable Arrow Linen Build in Park Slope Passes Council Committees, February 12th, 2025
The City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises and Committee on Land Use voted unanimously to approve the rezoning, which now includes a zoning change to R7A for the commercial site and a legally building commitment from the developers to stick to 10 stories, local Council Member Shahana Hanif said. Hanif called the new proposal “a triumph for the Windsor Terrace community.”
“We have an opportunity to create 100 new affordable units, and do so without constructing super tall buildings that would disrupt the character of the neighborhood,” she said, adding the project set “a strong standard for community driven and affordability focused land use policy” following the passage of City of Yes.
“Thanks to a new bulkier design, we were able to secure this height reduction without impacting the total count of 250 units. This is a win-win modification that makes the project more contextual in Windsor Terrace without undermining affordability goals,” she said.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Gounardes, Hanif and Simon Host Town Hall,
February 10th, 2025
About 200 Brooklynites joined a community town hall discussion titled “Light the Way BK” in the auditorium of M.S. 51 in Park Slope on Sunday, Feb. 9 to learn how to navigate the next four years of the Trump administration.
The event, hosted by City Councilmember Shahana Hanif (D-39) in collaboration with State Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-26) and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon (D-52), included a panel of three experts on immigration, education and reproductive rights. Vladimir Tlali, senior policy strategist for New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, co-executive director for Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), and Jenna Lauter, policy counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) spoke on the panel.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Parents, Council’s Hanif Rally for Free Childcare, February 2nd, 2025
Members of New Yorkers United for Child Care joined Councilmember Shahana Hanif at J.J. Byrne Playground in Park Slope to gather petition signatures for “2-Care,” a plan to supplement the city’s free pre-K program with free childcare for 2-year-olds. The group says it has gathered hundreds of signatures from parents and would-be parents since its campaign launch last month…
Recent budgets have seen cuts to pre-K programs, despite an affordability crisis that many Brooklyn parents say is driving them to leave the workforce – or the city, potentially causing as much as $23 billion in economic losses for NYC.
BK Reader: Speeding NYC Drivers Fuel Traffic Fatalities in NYC, Report Finds, February 2nd, 2025
Advocates are urging officials to implement measures such as mandatory intelligent speed assistance for repeat offenders, expanding protected bike lanes, and increasing intersection daylighting to prevent future fatalities.
“We cannot afford to wait for another tragedy, another injury, or another life lost to traffic violence before we take action to make our streets safer,” said Council Member Shahana Hanif.
"The statistics are harrowing: child and pedestrian fatalities are rising at an alarming rate, with 90% of these deaths occurring at intersections without proper daylighting," she said. "I urge our city to prioritize hardened universal daylighting with physical barriers at the deadliest intersections to deter vehicles from speeding and taking widened turns."
Gothamist: NYC, where a lot can get lost in translation, is getting an 'Interpreter Bank', January, 29th 2025
New York City is contracting with a nonprofit to provide free interpreter services at government offices, while employing immigrants in the process…
Interpreters with the bank will provide free help at city-funded legal service providers, city assistance centers for asylum-seekers and other community organizations…
The service is modeled on a similar program for legal interpretation started in 2007 in Washington, D.C. Its launch follows the advocacy of local officials, including Councilmember Shahana Hanif and former city Comptroller Scott Stringer.
BK Reader: New York Education Panel Says No to School ICE Raids,
January, 24th 2025
Brooklyn City Council Member Shahana Hanif, who is a member of the Council's Committee on Immigration, found the mayor's failure to condemn Trump's recent executive orders allowing for mass deportations "deeply troubling."
"It reflects a growing alignment with Trump," Hanif told BK Reader. "Mayor Adams is betraying the values that make New York City great."
BK Paper: Columbia Street Waterfront residents demand city shut down concrete recycling facility over dust, health concerns, January 20th, 2025
Columbia Street Waterfront District residents and politicians are demanding the immediate shutdown of a city-owned concrete recycling facility they say is filling the air with hazardous dust.
“You can’t say, ‘No, this is not dust,’” Hanif said. “This is happening, and whatever mechanism you have in place is not efficient.”
Short-term exposure to concrete dust can result in eye and respiratory irritation, according to OSHA. Longer-term, it can cause lung injuries and disease, and local residents — and parents of children at P.S. 29 on Henry Street, a few blocks from the facility — are worried about their health, Hanif said.
ABC7: Community rallies in support of 90-year-old man facing eviction from home after deed stolen, January 15th, 2025
A 90-year-old Brooklyn man is fighting to stay in the home he says was sold out from under him years ago without his knowledge -- and now his neighborhood is joining the fight to keep him from being evicted.
Flanked by neighbors, family, and lawmakers, Ray Cortez is fighting eviction from the only home he's known for over half a century.
"This is very troubling that our city is allowing this to happen. I call for an expedited investigation and to end the eviction proceedings," said Council Member Shahana Hanif.
Gothamist: Police investigating vandalism at Park Slope restaurant as a hate crime, January 26th, 2025
Miriam, a beloved Israeli restaurant in Park Slope, was vandalized early Sunday morning in what the NYPD is investigating as a hate crime, officials said.
Brooklyn Councilmember Shahana Hanif, whose district includes Miriam, said her office was working with local authorities and business groups to support the restaurant.
Streetsblog: Ninth Street should be safer, say Brooklyn residents as they mourned one of their own last week, January 14th, 2025
Friends and family of Sarah Schick, the Citi Bike rider who was killed by a truck driver on Ninth Street in Brooklyn two years ago, rallied at the fatal corner on Friday to mourn and also to demand that the city make the roadway safer…
“Barriers are not in place for about 75 percent of Ninth Street and are chronically blocked, particularly by businesses like Ferrantino Fuel [whose] trucks park on the sidewalk and in the bike lane daily, often overnight,adjacent to the spot where Sarah Schick was killed, and parking in the bike lane forces cyclists to drive in traffic," Council Member Shahana Hanif, Transportation Alternatives' new executive director Ben Furnas, Brooklyn Community Board 6 and Families for Safe Streets wrote to Mayor Adams and DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez.
Brooklyn Paper: Out in the cold: Council Member Hanif distributes holiday pies to Gowanus Houses tenants without power, December 24th, 2024
While many New Yorkers prepare for holiday gatherings this week, 34 families in Gowanus Houses face a grim reality due to a gas line shutdown that has plagued three NYCHA buildings for weeks.
To spread some holiday cheer, Council Member Shahana Hanif (D-Brooklyn), her staff, members of the Youth Fellowship Council, and the Gowanus Houses Tenant Association distributed 37 freshly made holiday pies from Four & Twenty Blackbirds bakery.
Emergency meal kits were also distributed to tenants of the three buildings — 182, 186 and 238 Bond St. — at Hanif’s district office on Dec. 21.
The pol told Brooklyn Paper that her office partnered with CHiPS, a soup kitchen and food pantry in Gowanus, along with Meals on Wheels, People in Need, and Grand Street Settlement, to organize food services for the affected residents. Those residents include families with young children, teenagers and individuals with disabilities.
Daily News: Opinion | Shahana Hanif on Uniting to fight New York City’s housing crisis, December 8th, 2024
New Yorkers are most concerned with the pocketbook issues that determine whether they can afford to stay in this city. With the passage of this housing package, we are rising to the occasion, providing a much-needed, timely solution to the affordability crisis.
There’s still much more work to do. We must enforce strict affordability standards on developers, collaborate with our state partners to advance a social housing development authority, preserve our existing affordable housing stock, and ensure that the Rent Guidelines Board doesn’t raise rents for rent-stabilized tenants.
As someone who ran for City Council as a pro-housing candidate, I am committed to continuing the fight to ensure that New York City remains affordable for working-class residents.
USA News Online: NYC Council Adopts Hanif’s Resolution 95, Advancing Religious Diversity Education in NYC Public Schools, November 18th, 2024
“As the lead sponsor of Resolution 95 and Co-Chair of the Council’s Task Force to Combat Hate, I am proud to see the Council advance this important Resolution, which urges the Department of Education to collaborate with faith-based organizations to create a comprehensive curriculum on religious diversity for all grade levels,” said Council Member Shahana Hanif.
“Educating students about New York City’s vibrant mosaic of religions is key to fostering understanding, respect, and mutual appreciation among our youth. Backed by a broad interfaith coalition, this resolution embodies the diverse religious tapestry of our city and emphasizes that religious discrimination can be challenged and unlearned. With a troubling rise of antisemitic, Islamophobic, and other hate crimes, it is more crucial than ever to cultivate inclusivity and prevent hate through education.”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Tenants, officials rally to save 63 Tiffany Place, in gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood, November, 1st, 2024
Waving signs reading “TOPA and COPA,” dozens of tenants of 63 Tiffany Place, in Brooklyn’s Columbia Street Waterfront District, rallied along with numerous state and city officials on Thursday to stave off eviction from their 70-unit, low-income housing…
“Once again, the landlord of 63 Tiffany Place is threatening to displace long-term, working-class residents from one of the last affordable housing options in the Columbia Waterfront neighborhood,” said Councilmember Shahana Hanif. “I am so disappointed that they removed themselves from this agreement and, unfortunately, are not coming back to the table …It is not right.”
Patch: Newly Redesigned Dog Park Unleashed In Park Slope,
October 14th, 2024
After nearly a year of construction, a newly refreshed dog run has landed at Washington Park in Park Slope, complete with dog-friendly turf and amenities, New York City Parks Department officials said.
Parks officials said the dog park, which cost $654,000 to overhaul, features fenced-in zones and new dog-sized water fountains. The turf is a significant improvement from the gravel that the dog park had previously.
"I'm honored to have brought this project to completion," Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who represents District 39, told Patch. "I want to give a big shout-out to our neighbors for their involvement, patience, and support throughout this project."
City Limits: ‘Stop Evicting Children’: Rally Calls to End Shelter Deadlines for Migrants As New School Year Starts, September 5th, 2024
A day before public schools reopened in New York City, elected officials, advocates, and community members gathered to protest Mayor Eric Adams’ policy that evicts migrants and asylum-seeking families—including school-going children—from the city’s homeless shelters every 30 or 60 days…
“This is shameful,” Councilmember Shahana Hanif said at Wednesday’s rally, held in Audubon Park in Washington Heights. “Children should be focused on their education, not on whether they have roofs over their heads or be able to stay in their school.”
While families with children can reapply for a new placement after their time runs out, Hanif said that the process of eviction, re-application, and moving to another shelter every two months could repeat up to five times in a single school year.
“This policy undermines educational outcomes, disrupts family stability and raises serious concerns about the risk of children experiencing street homelessness,” she said. In March, Hanif introduced Intro. 210, which would prohibit city agencies from imposing such time limits.
News 12: Park Slope groping cases: Councilmember Shahana Hanif steps in, August 22nd, 2024
There has been ongoing harassment of women in Park Slope…
The district's councilmember, Shahana Hanif, says she's meeting with the local precinct to figure out their action plan for gender-based violence.
A bittersweet celebration of safety improvements on Atlantic Avenue,
July 25th, 2024
On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Transportation announced that after decades of community advocacy, DOT would finally be making the safety improvements to the western section of Atlantic Avenue that the community has been pleading for.
“Today’s announcement marks a long-anticipated and crucial step towards ensuring that our city’s street infrastructure prioritizes pedestrian safety while adapting to the diverse and evolving demands placed on our streets,” said Councilmember Shahana Hanif.
Daily News: When Jews are threatened, I’ve always showed up, April 21st, 2024
I stand firmly against the abhorrent rise in antisemitism and I have been consistent in supporting my constituents against hate violence…
I categorically denounce the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7. I continue to mourn all of the lives that were lost on that day and share my deepest sympathies to those grieving.
To my Jewish neighbors: Please know that fighting antisemitism is and has always been central to my work in District 39 and in City Hall. I am in your corner.
Red Hook Star Revue: Participatory Budgeting Vote Week, April 9th, 2024
Council Member Hanif’s office has become a model for participatory budgeting. The office’s Budget and Organizing Director Hannah Henderson-Charnow has led the district through three cycles and runs a tight ship. She began community outreach earlier than many districts and has continued to refine how the district conducts the program, engaging volunteers during every step of the process, fostering partnerships with local nonprofits, translating materials to ensure wider participation, and attempting new means of voting outreach, such as the upcoming expo.
AMNY: Op-Ed | Shahana Hanif and Alexa Avilés on why NYC’s sanctuary policies make our city safer, February 29th, 2024
As elected leaders committed to safety for all New Yorkers and a city that recognizes the human rights of all its residents, we need this mayoral administration to stop parroting Trumpian talking points and attacking the basic due process rights that everyone should be protected by. We call on the Mayor to stop stoking division and focus on bringing communities together with proven safety solutions.
We must strengthen, not roll back, our existing sanctuary protections so we have meaningful trust between immigrant communities and government actors.
Gothamist: Free lock-change law aims to help domestic violence survivors stay in their homes, February 8th, 2024
The New York City Council is expected to greenlight a program on Thursday that will give domestic violence survivors across the city access to free and speedy lock changes.
The program will send locksmiths to install new locks within three days and comes amid a rise in reports of domestic violence in the city. The aim is to allow more people to stay in their homes and nearby their established support networks, including schools, places of worship and family, instead of moving into shelters
“Survivors should have the opportunity to rebuild their lives in the communities that are home to them and their children and not be forced out because of fears of an abuser,” said City Councilmember Shahana Hanif of Brooklyn, who sponsored the bill.
Gothamist: NYC ramped up legal assistance for asylum-seekers, and it's starting to pay off, October 19th, 2023
Immigration advocates and members of the New York City Council have long pushed Mayor Eric Adams' administration to ramp up its efforts to help newly arrived migrants apply for asylum and work permits — and it finally has.
The city has filed more than 5,600 asylum applications, or about 75 per day, through its Asylum Application Help Center, which launched in July at the Red Cross headquarters in Midtown, officials said at a Council oversight hearing on Wednesday.
Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who chairs the immigration committee and has long criticized the administration for failing to help new migrants apply for asylum and work permits in large numbers, applauded the city’s latest efforts.
Brooklyn Paper: ‘A long time coming’: Three new elevators open at 7th Avenue station, November 22nd, 2023
Council Member Shahana Hanif — who worked in Lander’s office before being elected to succeed him — recalled the years of advocacy in the community.
“As a disabled New Yorker, I know how difficult it can be to navigate our city’s subway system and how critical ADA accessibility is for our public transit network,” Hanif said in a statement. “This elevator is a big win for our district, especially the elderly who live in Park Slope and makeup 10% of the population, families with young children, members of the Center for Successful Aging, and many of the 42,000 inpatients and 500,000 outpatients who use New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital each year.”
Brooklyn Paper: Beverley Road open street transformed into permanent pedestrian plaza, October 12th, 2023
Kensington’s temporary open street on Beverley Road has officially been transformed into a permanent pedestrian plaza…
“I am so thrilled to announce the expansion of Kensington Plaza today,” said Council Member Shahana Hanif on Wednesday. “Creating this extended open space in Kensington has been in the works for years. Unlike nearly every other neighborhood in District 39, Kensington has few public pedestrian spaces, so the inclusion of East Second Street and Beverley Road is a welcome addition. Creating accessible public spaces like the new Kensington Plaza is safer for pedestrians, good for small businesses, cuts down on our community’s greenhouse gasses, and will make our neighborhood stronger.”
Brooklyn Paper: Kensington mosque embraces open streets for Friday prayers, October 10th, 2023
Every Friday afternoon, worshippers at Masjid Nur Al-Islam gather on the decorated pavement of car-free Chester Avenue to offer their prayers for Jummah. The mosque has secured an official open street in front of its premises for Friday afternoons throughout the year.
The mosque reached out to Council Member Shahana Hanif, who is Bangladeshi-American, in hopes of discussing the opening of Chester Avenue. Hanif did not hesitate to take action, as she represents the neighborhood and has been a vocal advocate for open streets.
“This is a working-class community where many people are living in crowded apartments and buildings,” Hanif continued.“The Covid-19 era catalyzed more constituents to understand that we needed more open streets and walkable corridors where the community can come together.”
Documented: New York City Council Passes Landmark Bill of Rights for Immigrant Workers, October 2nd, 2023
The New York City Council passed landmark legislation today establishing the city’s first workers’ bill of rights, a victory for immigrant workers.
The bill, which was first introduced by Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif in May, would require multiple city departments as well as community and labor organizations to create a workers’ bill of rights that would detail the rights and protections workers are guaranteed under federal, state, and local laws regardless of their immigration status.
Employers would be required to provide a copy of the bill to newly hired employees, and would also be required to post it in a visible location in the workplace. The bill must be posted in English as well as in the primary language spoken by at least 5% of employees.
City & State: Opinion: Shahana Hanif on why The right to shelter makes New York stronger, August 25th, 2023
As the daughter of immigrants, it pains me to see our leaders engage in xenophobic rhetoric and walk back decades of policy that has guaranteed housing as a human right. Rolling back these critical rights, refusing their expansion across the state and undermining them to avoid housing vulnerable people who have risked everything to come to the United States is a betrayal of our city’s values. At the welcoming door of our city, the inscription on the Statue of Liberty reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” We must heed these sacred words and uphold the values that make New York City the greatest place on Earth.
Everyone has the right to housing in our city, and I am proud to be part of the fight to ensure that right is realized.
Wastedive: New York City zero waste package, including mandatory residential organics program, becomes law, July 13th, 2023
Intro. 244-A, introduced by Council Member Shahana Hanif, makes residential organics collection participation mandatory for all New York City residents come October 2024. Hanif hailed the measure becoming law in a Monday social media post, noting it will begin rolling out in Queens and Brooklyn in three months…
“Universal curbside organics collections, if successfully implemented, will cut climate-destroying methane emissions, produce useful finished compost and over time save taxpayer dollars when compared to sending food scraps and yard waste to distant landfills and incinerators,” Goldstein said in an emailed statement.