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Citi Bike leaves out a chunk of New Yorkers including those most in need of a ride

More than 70 percent of neighborhoods with a median household income under $20,000 lack access to bike sharing. 

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Seeding Opportunity Initiative seeks to build equity in NY’s cannabis industry

Promoted as the ‘first’ of its kind in the country, the initiative seeks to award the first 100 retail adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses to individuals with cannabis-related criminal records, or their immediate relatives.

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New York City’s Ukraine Village unites as war in Ukraine continues

 As the war goes on, the community keeps gathering for fundraising events.

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Formerly Incarcerated People Call Hochul’s Private Prison Labor Proposal “Legal Slavery”

“It is slavery,” Johnson said.  “You’re getting 10 cents an hour, and it takes jobs away out here. If private companies can have prisoners make products, they aren’t going to pay minimum wage out here.”

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Q&A with Ukrainian LGBTQ Rights Activist Yevhen Trachuk

"I'm sure that if the baddest happens, if Russia takes control of Ukraine, it's bad for all and for gay people also, because still they don't like gays."

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International Women’s Day rally for abortion rights

Over 100 people organized in the downtown Manhattan park to march from Union Square to Washington Square Park in support of safe and legal abortion, preserving women’s rights, and in support of preserving Roe v. Wade. 

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The fight for climate education in New York

Education is a missing link in the climate action plan. 

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Public housing residents in East Harlem live in food desert

From 125th to 129th street on Lexington Ave, residents are met with fast food chains like Popeyes, Dunkin Donuts, IHOP, various bodegas, and a couple of pizza places.  There are about 750,000 New York City residents living in food deserts.

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US truckers protest convoy sputters

Several convoys of truckers sprang up across the US over the last several weeks intending to drive to D.C. in time for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address this past Tuesday, March 1. The groups, however, have failed to gain significant traction, while some have already turned around and headed home.  

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City’s mask mandate comes to an end