David Brand
@DavidFBrand
Covering housing for @WNYC @Gothamist | [email protected] | Past: @CityLimitsNews, @QueensEagle, @CityWatchWBAI & before that, a Licensed Social Worker
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23-02-2009 03:04:17
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hey, remember that whole 'turn empty hotels into the housing we need' thing?
Arun Venugopal with a good look at the one conversion actually happening over near Kennedy Airport
gothamist.com/news/a-hotel-r…
IS THERE A CONSPIRACY OF OUTSIDE AGITATORS FUELING PROTESTS IN NYC AS LLEGED BY NYPD NEWS AND Mayor Eric Adams????
OR ARE COLLEGE KIDS JUST BUYING THE CHEAPEST, MOST DISPOSABLE TENTS????
A Hell Gate *subscribe today!* INVESTIGATION
hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-ou…
.Columbia Daily Spectator overnight reported the midnight deadline was pushed back campus admin another 48 hours, after administration cited 'important progress' in talks with student organizers.
These sleepless student journalists are following every twist and turn of this ⬇️⬇️
32 women have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually assaulted by medical staffers while detained at Rikers. Most said they were assaulted during exams, including the medical assessments that all detainees undergo when they arrive. By Samantha Max: gothamist.com/news/women-hel…
powerful reporting from Samantha Max: “The claims highlight ongoing concerns about the city’s safety measures for protecting detainees during medical procedures and speak to the difficulty of bringing criminal charges against health care providers and other staff at Rikers.”
Listening back to The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast’s budget debrief and loling his reaction to Jon Campbell describing the new construction exemption going back to 2009:
“What!”
Spent six hours on Columbia University’s campus reporting on the multiple demonstrations that took place today even despite the hundreds of arrests that happened last week. w/ Ramsey Khalifeh رمزي خليفة + Bahar Ostadan gothamist.com/news/columbia-…
NY now has Good Cause eviction measures in place.
So ... what does that mean?
More from the great David Brand:
gothamist.com/news/good-caus…