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    City Reaches Settlement Agreement with Verizon FiOS Regarding Expansion

    Mayor  •  Internet Access  •  Citywide

    Mayor Bill de Blasio. Image credit: CityLand

    The new agreement stresses the need for internet access. On November 24, 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio announce efforts to tackle the digital divide in New York City by ensuring that Verizon builds out its FiOS footprint to 500,000 additional householders, making high-speed fiber broadband available to more New Yorkers. Verizon failed to meet the terms of its current cable franchise agreement made with the Bloomberg administration to build out its FiOS network. (more…)

    Tags : internet access, NYCHA, Verizon, Verizon FiOS
    Date: 12/15/2020
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    NYCHA Community Centers to be Renovated with $22 Million from NYPD Capital Funding

    Mayor  •  NYCHA  •  Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan

    The community center within 816 Soundview Avenue will be renovated as part of an investment of $22 million reallocated from NYPD capital funds. Image Credit: Google Maps

    The funding will help four community centers. On July 21, 2020, Mayor de Blasio announced that three NYCHA community centers will be renovated, and a fourth will receive expense funding for programming, using $22 million in capital funding shifted from the NYPD to NYCHA in the Fiscal Year 2021 Adopted Budget. This project is a part of the Mayor’s commitment to reinvest $450 million in NYPD capital funds to community centers across the City. (more…)

    Tags : community center, NYCHA, NYPD capital funds
    Date: 08/05/2020
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    Comptroller Study Finds Majority of Lobbies in NYCHA Buildings Have Unsecured Doors

    Comptroller's Office, New York City Housing Authority  •  Public Housing Security Issues  •  Citywide

    Image Credit: Office of the Comptroller.

    NYCHA residences throughout the five boroughs have serious security lapses from propped open and broken doors. On October 12, 2018, the City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer released the results of an investigative survey on the exterior door security at New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments. Between July and August 2018, auditors visited 299 NYCHA developments and observed the conditions of exterior doors. The auditors observed 4,551 doors in development in the five boroughs. (more…)

    Tags : Comptroller, doors, NYCHA, safety, security issues, unsecured
    Date: 11/13/2018
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    City Council Holds Oversight Hearing on Mayor’s Affordable Housing Plan

    City Council  •  Oversight  •  Citywide
    City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod and HPD Commissioner Vicki Been are sworn in before the Council's oversight hearing. Image credit: William Alatriste, New York City Council

    City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod & HPD Commissioner Vicki Been are sworn in before the Council’s oversight hearing. Image credit: William Alatriste, NYC Council

    HPD, City Planning, NYCHA among those who answered questions on the results and direction of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan.  On November 17, 2014, the City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings, joined by the Committee on Land Use and Committee on Community Development, held an oversight hearing on Housing New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing plan. The Council heard testimony over the course of seven hours from Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been, City Planning Commission Chairman Carl Weisbrod, along with representatives from the New York City Housing Authority, the Housing Development Corporation, labor unions, tenant advocacy groups, and other stakeholders.

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    Tags : Chairman Carl Weisbrod, City Council, Commissioner Vicki Been, Council Member David G. Greenfield, Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Council Member Mark Levine, Council Member Mark Weprin, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Department of City Planning, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, NYCHA
    Date: 11/20/2014
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