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Hoylman, Epstein intro bill to guarantee NYCHA residents have clean water, food during water disruptions
The Vision Urbana Food Security box truck delivered pallets of bottled water (120 cases) to Riis Houses during the complex's water crisis. Doordash also donated $15,000 in food credits for hot meal purchases to Vision Urbana to coordinate with local participating Doordash restaurants. (Vision Urbana)

Hoylman, Epstein intro bill to guarantee NYCHA residents have clean water, food during water disruptions

September 19, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | State Senator Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Harvey Epstein introduced a bill (S.9557) to create a process for ensuring public housing residents…

Arsenic and saving face: City says tainted-water tests at Riis Houses were all wet
Mayor Eric Adams distributed water bottles at the New York City Housing Authority’s Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village on Fri., Sept. 2. (Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)

Arsenic and saving face: City says tainted-water tests at Riis Houses were all wet

September 12, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | After what amounted to a weeklong false alarm about the drinking water at the Jacob Riis Houses, on Saturday the…

‘You don’t speak for us’: Pro-resiliency plan rally slams park defenders
Councilmember Carlina Rivera spoke in support of the East Side Coastal Resiliency plan at a Dec. 17 press conference at two Housing Authority developments that border East River Park. (Courtesy CoDA)

‘You don’t speak for us’: Pro-resiliency plan rally slams park defenders

December 18, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Opponents of the East River Park resiliency plan have been making lots of noise lately. Though, admittedly, it’s been hard to…

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