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Two years ago, Mayor Eric Adams touted his plan for vendors at Corona Plaza in Queens as the city’s “first-ever community vending area.” It was supposed to be an experimental model for vending outside the city’s backlogged permitting system.
But today, only 23 vendors remain within the market, sharing and rotating through just 14 stalls. Most of those who once sold there have dispersed across the city, unable to make a living under the new setup.
Many vendors told THE CITY that their businesses have struggled because they can no longer work during the early-morning and late-night hours — prime time for their blue-collar customers.
But vendors and their advocates are hopeful their conditions will soon improve with new faces in City Hall and the City Council.
In Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn there will be no overnight Queens-bound A trains at Spring St, Canal St, Chambers St, Fulton St and High St. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Alternate side parking 🚙
It’s in effect today, Dec. 1.
By the way…
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned on freezing rents for rent-stabilized apartments. But not sure if your apartment falls under this category? Here’s how to get your rent history.
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If you have a child in fourth grade or below in a New York City public school, they probably already have a college savings account. How? Because of NYC Kids Rise, which starting in 2021 set up every kindergartener with an account and an initial deposit of $100. Read more about the plan.
Seemingly random street arrests of immigrants by federal authorities, previously nearly unheard of in New York, are now a common occurrence, according to legal filings reviewed by THE CITY.
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Billion-Dollar Bailout
New York City should come up with $1 billion next year to help owners of all-affordable housing developments restructure their debt, according to a report issued Wednesday from the New York Housing Conference. An increasing number of such developments are close to bankruptcy and to defaulting on their mortgages, as THE CITY reported last month.
The Housing Conference also noted that Mayor-elect Zohran Mandani’s planned four-year freeze on rent regulated apartments would worsen the problem because, unlike landlords whose buildings contain both regulated and market rate units, these landlords cannot increase market-rate rents to cover rising costs.
The report also urges that the City Council exempt these buildings from a $40 an hour minimum wage bill for construction workers on city-funded housing now under consideration and calls for what’s known as a captive carrier to lower skyrocketing insurance costs.
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