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By Danielle Cruz COVID-19 After Costly ‘Reinvention,’ Nail Salons Brace For Uncertain Reopening By Fernando Martínez for El Diario Albany Opinion: NYS Must Revisit its Rushed Move to Legalize Surrogacy By K Webster Elections New Protest Movement Poses Challenges for Queens Progressives By Danny Katch News Housing and Development 10 Weeks After COVID Shut it Down, There’s a Push to Restart City’s Land-Use Review Process The city’s land-use review process, which was shut down in the spring in the face of the pandemic, needs a quick restart, a Council leader says—quicker than the one the de Blasio administration appears to be contemplating. By Sadef Ali Kully Citywide Pro-immigrant Groups Join BLM Protests at City Hall Activists representing immigrant rights groups joined Black Lives Matters protestors at City Hall, calling for the city to protect funding for immigration nonprofits. By Ramón Frisneda for El Diario Homepage Featured Japanese Artist Paints George Floyd Mural in Manhattan "I was filled with sadness. I didn’t know what to do," the street artist told NY Japion. "I looked for a space to create art." By NY Japion Brad Lander A Budget that Either Clobbers or Coddles the NYPD Two things can be said about the fiscal 2021 budget. One is that it made almost no one happy. The other is that it did not meaningfully reduce the operational size of the nation's largest police force. By Jarrett Murphy black lives matter Why ‘Black Lives Matter’ to NYC’s Latino Police-Reform Marchers 'To understand this, we have to think about the history of this relationship between African Americans and Latinos. Both communities have faced the same economic problems and have lived in the same neighborhoods.' By Daniel Parra Mapping the Future Council Softens but Doesn’t Stop Hit to Housing Budget The final fiscal 2021 spending plan staved off cuts to smaller housing programs, but retained a shift of roughly a billion dollars in capital spending on the mayor’s affordability plan. Advocates: NYC Needs More Money, New Model to Meet Housing Crisis Resisting budget cuts is just part of the plan, they say. Changing how the housing market works is the deeper goal. Will New York Launch a Public Bank? The state legislature is considering a bill, introduced in January, which would authorize local municipalities to lend money to public banks and authorize public ownership of stock in them. Queens Borough Presidency Candidates’ Positions on Development While the borough presidency is not as powerful as it once was when the BPs had votes on the seven-member board of estimate that effectively ran the city, it still does have an important advisory role on land-use policy. Tenant Advocates Cheer Rent Freeze, Fear Housing-Court Restart With the RGB vote largely a fait accompli following its earlier preliminary approval of the one-year freeze, housing advocates’ biggest concern has been the looming reopening of housing court, which will allow for eviction cases to move forward. Newsletters Sign up for our newsletters to get our reporting delivered to you. Sign up Newsletters Sign up for our newsletters to get our reporting delivered to you. Sign up for our newsletters to get our reporting delivered to you. The Weekly Never miss a probing investigative report, thought-provoking op-ed or news making podcast Mapping the Future ' Housing and Development Bulletin. News and Tools for New Yorkers to Navigate the Housing Crunch Voices of New York Spotlighting community reporting across the city Una Ciudad sin Limites (City Without Limits) Informes detallados en español First Name Email address Thanks for signing up. Please check your email for a confirmation. Podcasts ► Decorative play icon links to post: A Budget that Either Clobbers or Coddles the NYPD A Budget that Either Clobbers or Coddles the NYPD Two things can be said about the fiscal 2021 budget. One is that it made almost no one happy. The other is that it did not meaningfully reduce the operational size of the nation's largest police force. By Jarrett Murphy ► Decorative play icon links to post: Mayoral Hopefuls Have a Narrow Window for Bold Moves Mayoral Hopefuls Have a Narrow Window for Bold Moves Two veteran political strategists broke down the 2021 mayoral field and the landscape on which their contest is already playing out. By Jarrett Murphy ► Decorative play icon links to post: Budget Axe and Pandemic Padlocks Have Put City’s Parks Under Pressure Budget Axe and Pandemic Padlocks Have Put City’s Parks Under Pressure The mayor's decision to open parks but ban swimming has prompted an outcry. Meanwhile, proposed budget cuts to the already underfunded Parks Department threaten to strain the system during a summer when New Yorkers will likely flood to those spaces. By Jarrett Murphy Special Projects City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York Progress and Delays in Putting Milestone Emissions Law into Action Fourteen months after the city passed a strict new standard for building emissions and less than four years before the restrictions go into effect, there has been progress and delays in creating a mechanism for landlords to comply. Opinion: Carbon Pricing and Racial Justice in New York 'Protecting Black and brown communities calls for an overarching approach that addresses everything from economics, health care and education to law enforcement and even the very air we breathe.' Steps to Boost Climate Resiliency Hit by Delays and Cuts, Thanks to COVID-19 Budget cuts and delays in the planning process or construction on work threaten to bog down plans that critics thought were too limited to begin with. Age Justice Seniors’ Housing Needs are a Special Challenge Rents are rising for seniors as they are for everyone else. But a fixed income, vulnerability to harassment and age-related physical impairments raise the housing stakes for elder New Yorkers. Aging in New York: City Wrestles with Poverty Among Seniors Amid the debates about how the minimum wage or better schools might reduce poverty are a million New Yorkers who are largely beyond the reach of those policies. And one in five of them are poor. Opinion: Ageism and Racism are Twin Evils That NYers Must Defeat 'Older adults are at the end of the food chain of a racist world.' The Ride Foes of Cuomo’s AirTrain Say it’s the Wrong Priority for COVID-Scarred Nabes During a press conference last month, the governor announced that he will seek out federal stimulus aid from the Trump administration for the estimated $2 bi...