June 2026

When, a little over 10 years ago, the Mayor Bill de Blasio administration approached East New York City Councilmember Rafael Espinal to win his support for a plan to rezone East New York, many residents of the economically struggling Brooklyn neighborhood feared that a rezoning would lead to gentrification and push them out. Espinal had […]

There’s something different about just walking to work or to get your laundry, and then just disappearing. People are grabbed up who sometimes have never had an interaction with the immigration system before. They’ve never had a lawyer. These street arrests involve a lot of discretion in the field from ICE officers. https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?delaney Gwynne Hogan

Officials from the newly-launched Office of Community Safety haven’t met yet with anyone from the NYPD about collaboration or shifting responsibilities to the newly-launched office, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday. Council Speaker Julie Menin asked the commissioner during an executive budget hearing on public safety about coordination between the police department and OCS, which