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woensdag 5 juni 2024
WORLD WORLDWIDE US USA - New York NY - New York City NYC - the city THE CITY - Migrant women work construction, jail phone recording ban, Con Sofrito
Dear New Yorkers,
Katy Contreras is in her coveralls, boots, respirator, boots and gloves before 7 a.m. each shift. She’s on asbestos removal duty at a construction site in Chelsea, where she wields an ax for demolition work, then removes and cleans up the toxic material.
It’s only her second month on the job — the first full-time one she’s had since arriving in New York from her native Ecuador in October.
A high school literature teacher in her home country, she didn’t imagine ever working construction. But she needed work, and pay for certified asbestos handlers in New York starts at about $22 hourly for apprentices.
“It's hard, tiring work, especially now that the heat is getting awful, but I enjoy it,” Contreras, 43, said during a recent lunch break. “I learn something new every day, and I get better and stronger.”
She is one of the scores of migrant women who have carved out spaces for themselves in the male-dominated field — amid a shortage of housekeeping, nannying and other jobs that have traditionally been the entry point for immigrant women. The surge in women seeking construction jobs has coincided with the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants from the southern border in the last two years, local organizers say.
Four in 10 trainees are now female, as local workers centers report skyrocketing demand for courses in safety, demolition and more.
Wednesday's Weather Rating: 6/10. Clouds and humidity are back, with a chance of showers by later this afternoon and tonight as well. High temperatures reach the upper 70s. It's not a washout, but the vibes are a bit more unsettled today!
Our Other Top Stories
In 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration pushed through a new rule allowing jail officials to eavesdrop on detainees’ phone calls. Now, city lawmaker Gale Brewer wants to make it illegal again to listen to and tape calls made by incarcerated people, citing unlawful snooping on lawyer calls and recent allegations of an unconstitutional database of the recorded conversations. The proposed bill would prohibit universal recording of communications made by people in jail. It would also ban the collection of voice recognition and location data, and force the destruction of all that type of information already collected. It is expected to be introduced during the Council’s weekly stated hearing on Thursday.
Remember Con Sofrito? The Bronx restaurant owned by the police commissioner’s brother — which hosted Mayor Eric Adams’ birthday party last year — ran into regulatory trouble when the fire department issued several safety violations there, and for an outdoor dining structure built without a required permit. On the eve of a hearing this week, owner Richard Caban scrambled to disassemble the outdoor structure to avoid being held in contempt of a court order to remove it. He wasn’t, but the restaurant must close before Aug. 31.
With just weeks to go until Mount Sinai’s planned July 12 closure of Beth Israel Hospital, another Lower Manhattan facility is at risk of shuttering. Mount Sinai is reportedly proposing to turn its Eye and Ear Infirmary, an ambulatory center on Third Avenue, into an urgent care center — as its nurses are in the midst of bargaining a new contract for higher salaries, and negotiating a layoff plan for when and if the health system shuts down their facility.
Reporter’s Notebook
Biden Border Order
New York City officials are cautiously optimistic that an executive order signed by President Joe Biden Tuesday could further slow the arrival of migrants from the southern border.
While the number of newly arriving migrants has declined from late last year, when more than 3,000 people were entering the city’s migrant shelter system each week, their steady arrival has doubled the shelter population over the past two years. “Whatever we can do to slow the flow and finance and allow people to work I'm all for,” said Mayor Eric Adams at a press conference Tuesday morning.
Biden’s executive order shuts down the asylum process and raises consequences for unauthorized entry if border crossings exceed 2,500 people per day, which has been the case for months now. The order has drawn sharp criticism from immigration advocates, while the American Civil Liberties Union is promising to sue the Biden administration, pointing to a Trump-era order that also tried to shut down the asylum process but was blocked by federal courts.
— Gwynne Hogan
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Wednesday, June 5: The 2024 Photoville Festival, an outdoor exhibition of photography in more than 85 locations around the city. Runs through June 16.
Friday, June 7: A show by Circus Amok, a queer and justice-oriented troupe that has been performing since 1989. Free from 6 to 7 p.m. at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens.
Friday, June 7: Films on the Green: “Final Set”, an outdoor screening of a French tennis drama (with English subtitles). Free from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Washington Square Park.
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