Karen Juanita Carrillo
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Shuttered Navy Yard Boys & Girls Club could become a development site (opens the original)
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In Downtown Brooklyn, there’s a section of the Farragut Houses that sits on Navy Street, and across the street is a low brick building that used to be the site of the Navy Yard Boys & Girls Club at 240 Nassau Street. For decades, the Navy Yard Boys & Girls Club was the safe space where children from the Farragut, Ingersoll and Whitman Houses went after school. Operated by the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club Foundation, it had enrichment programs for 6- to 18-year-olds. But the clubhouse was shu
System Failures, Part Two: Heirs’ property, partition sales, and paper wars (opens the original)
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System Failures Part 1: In Black neighborhoods, deed theft hides in plain sight When a Black person dies without a will in New York City, or falls behind on property taxes or home loans, their families may be at risk of losing the family home. If they owned property and the deed was in that person’s name, their children, grandchildren, spouses, and cousins could each inherit a share of the house as “tenants in common.” One relative could still live in the home and pay the bills, while others mig
At Schomburg, New York Puerto Ricans urge City Council to stand against colonial-style control (opens the original)
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Puerto Rican elected officials and organizers held a press conference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on September 28 to call on New York City to stand up against the financial, political, and environmental pressures displacing Puerto Ricans and weakening public services throughout the archipelago. Councilmember Alexa Avilés hosted the “NYC Stands with Puerto Rico” press conference, which brought Puerto Rican diaspora advocates and community organizations together just befo
New York is the nation’s fifth 'side-hustle capital' (opens the original)
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In NYC, side hustles have a long tradition. New Yorkers are known to take the time to turn their specialized skills into income. A new national report on “America’s Side-Hustle Capitals” from the online rental marketplace Giggster found the New York–Newark–Jersey City metropolitan area placed fifth in side-hustle capitals. Giggster looked at 30 major U.S. metro areas based on business density, earnings, pay rates, and purchasing power to create its Side-Hustle Capital Index. Miami ranked first o
System Failures Part 1: In Black neighborhoods, deed theft hides in plain sight (opens the original)
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Across New York, officials have admitted to a growing problem, one that has communities increasingly alarmed: deed theft. It is fraud that has affected older adults, immigrants, and homeowners of color in gentrifying neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Brownsville, East New York, and Harlem, and has become blatant. Victims report being initially confused and later incensed at the realization that they’ve been harmed –– and no one seems to be doing anything about it. Deed theft
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