If you’ve ever put off a chore like doing your dishes or cleaning out a vacuum filter, you know that the problem tends to only get worse and harder to deal with the longer you wait. Multiply that by several orders of magnitude and you get the New York City Housing Authority system, the nation’s largest public housing authority by far with about 340,000 residents spread out over some 162,000 apartments.
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Waitlisted for your first high school pick?
If you have any questions about the high school offers and waitlists, the DOE is hosting a series of virtual information sessions starting today. The sessions will begin with a presentation followed by time for questions from attendees.
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Mayor Adams defends budget cuts
Last week we shared how to check to see if your school’s budget was cut for this upcoming 2022-23 school year. Now, we know just how much the New York City school budget has been axed for September: $215 million. And while teachers and families have organized rallies in outrage over the news, Mayor Eric Adams says that since the lower budget is based on lower enrollment, it doesn’t count as a cut.
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Sasha Silverstein
This week we welcome Sasha Silverstein. Silverstein is an artist who has been living and working in New York City for more than 40 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in […]
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Julius’ — a bar full of history and pride
Rainbow pride flags can be found year-round on nearly every surface at Julius’, a bar in the West Village. Photographs of patrons and celebrities that have come throughout the years and pieces of gay history, like magazine covers and newspaper clips cover its walls. It’s a welcoming space for everyone who visits — making it difficult to imagine that many years ago, three gay men were refused service there.
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There’s a layered approach to dealing with grief
We’re roughly halfway through 2022 and there have already been more than 250 mass shootings in the United States. New Yorkers were still reeling from the racially motivated shooting in Buffalo that claimed 10 lives when we began receiving notification about the massacre in Uvalde, Texas. When a shooting happens, it’s not only direct family members who are affected, but entire communities. But how does one effectively grieve? Jill Cohen, a NYC-based grief counselor, speaks with Epicenter-NYC reporter Andrea Pineda-Salgado about how to best cope with the feelings that follow tragic events like mass shootings.
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The rise of surveillance in New York City
New Yorkers walking down the street are likely to be dimly aware that they are being surveilled, in some way, by a mixture of private and public entities. It’s part of the trade-off that we’ve made as a society, a kind of persistent monitoring in exchange for a sense of security and convenience.
The shift has been accelerated by the twin engines of post-9/11 cultural shifts and the growing primacy of social media and targeted advertising, and elicited relatively little pushback as the technologies have grown more sophisticated while receding out of sight.
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Paid White House Internship Program
Applications for the new White House Internship program are now open and will close on Friday, June 24. The program is a public service leadership and development program, and this year will be the first time in history that interns will be paid. This will help provide an equal opportunity for low income and first-generation professionals.
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Students threaten violence at Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens schools
Last week, Robert Kennedy School on the Upper East Side went on lockdown after a 12-year- old made threats in a group chat. A parent of one of the members of the group chat found the conversation where the 12-year-old girl threatened to “shoot up the teacher and the school.” It also included a photo of a gun. The student was not charged, but sent for evaluation at a nearby hospital.
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How to check your school’s budget for next year
There is a lot of conversation happening over on Twitter after NYC school budgets were released on Monday. Executive director of the nonprofit Class Size Matters, Leonie Haimson, is outraged at the fact that many schools are losing millions of dollars for the upcoming school year.
