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July 27, 2024
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New York City’s Asylum Application Help Center Wins American Bar Association’s Hodson Award for Public Service

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Prestigious Award Recognizes Application Help Center for Extraordinary Service by Government Law Office  In First Year, Center Submitted More Than 58,000 Work Authorization, Temporary Protected Status, and Asylum Applications  Innovative Model is First-in-Nation to Combine Government, Law Firm, Corporate, Nonprofit, and University Support to Provide Pro Se Application Support at Scale NEW YORK – New York…

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Mayor Eric Adams Announces Return of ‘Rise Up NYC’ Summer Concert Series, Featuring 18 World-Class Concerts Across Five Boroughs

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the return of the ‘Rise Up NYC’ summer concert series, offering 18 free outdoor concerts to New Yorkers across all five boroughs this summer. The highly anticipated concert series — put on in partnership with City Parks Foundation SummerStage — is expanding significantly for its third season, inspiring…

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New York Mayor Eric Adams Celebrates $53 Million Investment for City’s Cultural Institutions, Totaling Record High $254 Million in Budget to Support Over 1,000 Cultural Nonprofits Citywide

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– New York City Mayor Eric Adams today celebrated a historic investment in the city’s cultural institutions as part of an on-time, balanced, and fiscally-responsible $112.4 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Adopted Budget that addresses the city’s affordability crisis head-on and invests in the future of the city and the working-class people who make New York the…

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New York Governor Hochul Announces $8 Million Now Available to Help Develop and Operate On-Demand Transit Options in Upstate New York

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Governor Kathy Hochul today announced $8 million is now available to develop and operate microtransit and other on-demand transportation options in local communities in Upstate New York. The funding is part of Governor Hochul’s groundbreaking Innovative Mobility Initiative and being made available via a competitive solicitation to eligible transit operators with innovative approaches to expand…

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New York State Governor Hochul Joins State and Federal Officials to Announce $6.88 Billion Full Funding Grant Agreement for Gateway Hudson Tunnel

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Governor Hochul: “Today is a historic day. We have moved into places that others thought was impossible… Tunnels that were built in 1910, that were ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, and people said, ‘Well, stuff happens, right?’ No. You find the investment, you find the partners, and you make $16 billion of investments happen.” Hochul: “95,000…

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New York Mayor Adams, Sanitation Commissioner Tisch Unveil First-Ever Official NYC Bin for Trash Pick up, Release Timeline for Residential Containerization of all one to Nine Unit Buildings

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch today symbolically set Gracie Mansion’s trash and recycling out at the curb, marking the next step in relegating New York City’s once-omnipresent mountains of black trash bags to the dust bin of history. This waste was the first…

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