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Downtown councilmembers champion participatory budgeting: Voting is this week
Two staffers from Councilmember Christopher Marte's office, budget director René Castellanos, left, and legislative director Ian Wang, manned an outdoor voting site at Madison and Rutgers Streets for participatory budgeting on Mon., April 4. (Photo by Dashiell Allen)

Downtown councilmembers champion participatory budgeting: Voting is this week

April 5, 2022

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | It’s the closest New York City gets to direct Democracy. All residents of Downtown Councilmembers Erik Bottcher and Christopher Marte’s districts…

‘We live in constant fear’: Chinatown slams Grand St. homeless shelter plan as C.B. 2 concedes to write a resolution
Elderly vendors sell raw ginger, mushrooms, hats and gloves and the like in front of the vacant Bowery Hanbee Hotel, at Grand Street and Bowery. The building is slated to be a homeless drop-in center and Safe Haven site with stabilization beds operated by Housing Works. (Photo by The Village Sun)

‘We live in constant fear’: Chinatown slams Grand St. homeless shelter plan as C.B. 2 concedes to write a resolution

March 30, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Thurs., March 31, 2 a.m.: Nearly 500 people “packed” a Zoom meeting, albeit virtually, last Thursday evening as Chinatown residents…

‘We cannot have 10 shelters’: Chinatown pushes back on planned Grand St. homeless site
Housing Works plans to open a new homeless shelter and drop-in site at the Bowery Hanbee Hotel, at Grand St. and Bowery. (Photo by The Village Sun)

‘We cannot have 10 shelters’: Chinatown pushes back on planned Grand St. homeless site

March 21, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Chinatown residents are up in arms about yet another homeless facility planned for their neighborhood. The city, for its part, argues…

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