10 years after Sandy, NJ eyes development rules that expect more flooding...
With the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaching, New Jersey officials are reviving a plan to make developers and towns consider the risks of future flooding brought on by climate change.The...
View ArticleNJ's long-fought temp worker bill delayed after Dems pull support
This week, a bill to improve conditions for New Jersey's temp workers was up for a final vote before the state Senate. The measure was expected to pass by a small margin and head to Governor Phil...
View ArticleMedieval Times sued its NJ union over trademark violations. Now the union is...
The union representing New Jersey performers at Medieval Times has filed two unfair labor practice charges against the dinner entertainment chain, after the company sued it over alleged trademark...
View ArticleIn Newark, a community grapples with ‘manmade, urban flooding’
Residents of Newark's Ivy Hill neighborhood say their homes routinely flood during major storms — a result, they say, of decades of nearby development that didn’t consider their neighborhood.“We're not...
View ArticleNewark steps up pressure to delay Seton Hall's expansion plans over flooding...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka asked the South Orange Planning Board this week to delay approving Seton Hall’s plans to expand its sports complex — as Newark neighbors raise concerns about flooding they blame...
View ArticleStaffing agencies ramp up lobbying efforts as NJ temp bill nears vote
Temporary staffing agencies that operate in New Jersey have ramped up their lobbying efforts this week to stop a measure they say would over-regulate the industry and hurt their business.The latest...
View ArticleFEMA gave 296 NY & NJ Ida victims extended rental assistance. Advocates say...
When theremnants of Hurricane Ida struck inSeptember 2021, FEMA distributed short-term housing aid to 19,500 displaced residents in New Jersey and New York — enough to pay up to two months of...
View ArticleMore NJ homes are owned by institutions, new report finds. And that's driving...
A new report in New Jersey says more of the state’s housing stock is increasingly owned by companies and other institutions. The report was released by the Department of Community Affairs and found...
View ArticleAdvocates demand fixes from FEMA after few Ida survivors get housing help
Advocates working with survivors of Hurricane Ida want FEMA to immediately provide more housing assistance to displaced residents in New Jersey. Nine groups sent a letter to FEMA representatives on...
View ArticleNJ's new food security advocate: We need to think bigger than meal programs
New Jersey governor Phil Murphy says he wants to end food insecurity in the state … where the Food Research and Action Center reports one in 12 households don’t have reliable access to affordable,...
View ArticleNJ FamilyCare health insurance open to all eligible children — regardless of...
New Jersey now allows all income-eligible children – regardless of immigration status – to enroll in the state’s health insurance program.Gov. Phil Murphy announced the expansion of the state’s Cover...
View ArticleGov. Murphy proposes ending liquor license caps, investing in Shore boardwalks
Gov. Phil Murphy says he wants to build a New Jersey with more possibilities, for new industries and greater affordability for families. Speaking during his State of the State address on Tuesday,...
View ArticleNJ’s Access Link ride service is promising changes. People with disabilities...
NJ Transit has six months to start improving its Access Link public ride service for people with disabilities, after the U.S. Attorney's Office found a pattern of late trips, excessively long rides and...
View ArticleSNAP 'food stamp' payments are about to get smaller. NJ lawmakers want to...
New Jersey lawmakers are rushing to pass a bill that would prevent low-income families from seeing their monthly food benefits cut in half. Nearly 800,000 residents depend on the food stamp program...
View ArticleRutgers could face first faculty strike in its history — key union vote Tuesday
The unions representing Rutgers University’s 8,000-member faculty will start voting on Tuesday on whether to authorize their leaders to call a strike after going without a contract for eight months —...
View ArticleMore help is coming for NJ Ida victims. Groups helping survivors call...
New Jersey’s Department of Human Services says it began making case managers available to Hurricane Ida survivors in January — more than 16 months after a devastating storm that led to tens of...
View ArticleNJ Transit's service for disabled riders sees the most late trips since 2017
NJ Transit says it’s still in the “planning and development phase” of work to meet a series of federally set deadlines that begin in June to improve its Access Link services for people with...
View ArticleRutgers could strike any time — blowback over school president's claim it...
Dozens of prominent academics are criticizing the president of Rutgers University after he called a looming strike by faculty unions "unlawful" in a university-wide email.A letter addressed to Rutgers...
View ArticleRutgers faculty on strike: 9,000 educators walking off the job
The Rutgers University faculty will strike Monday morning, marking the first teacher work stoppage since New Jersey’s flagship public university opened its doors 256 years ago.The historic move,...
View ArticleEXTRA: Rutgers Faculty Strike
WNYC's Michael Hill speaks to reporter Karen Yi about the faculty strike at Rutgers on Monday and members on the picket lines call in to share why they are striking.
View ArticleAs Rutgers faculty strikes, students join the picket lines
During a rally at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus Monday, professors and graduate workers crowded around speakers, chanted for better pay and job security. But past faculty members holding...
View ArticleRutgers Strike Continues
Karen Yi, WNYC reporter covering New Jersey, talks about the latest news on the Rutgers strike, including the university's response, where Gov. Murphy stands on it, and whether the two sides are close...
View ArticleSigns of optimism through Rutgers strike's third day
Negotiators for Rutgers University and three faculty unions were continuing Wednesday for a third day. Many students said they're a little anxious — but stand by their professors.Negotiators on both...
View ArticleThe Rutgers faculty strike is over, for now. What happens next?
Three unions scored major gains in job security and compensation for Rutgers University's adjunct faculty members and graduate students, and have agreed to end the strike that crippled New Jersey's...
View ArticleRutgers' union wins could inspire labor organizing nationwide
The job security and higher wages three Rutgers University faculty unions won for some of their lowest-paid members after a weeklong strike could inspire educators in labor fights at other colleges and...
View ArticleStaffing agencies sue to block NJ's temp worker rights bill
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new law this year to give the state’s temporary workers more protections — and better pay. Labor advocates have complained of unsafe conditions and what amounts to...
View Article'My eyes burned': Essential workers toil in smoke-filled air across tristate...
As smoke from Canadian wildfires continued blanketing the Northeast on Thursday, many outdoor workers in New York and New Jersey said they had no choice but to continue working and breathing in the...
View ArticleNewark community mourns after firefighters killed in massive cargo ship blaze
The cargo ship blaze that erupted Wednesday night at Port Newark and killed two firefighters is expected to burn for several more days as crews work to contain the flames and keep the steel vessel from...
View ArticleWhy these NJ schools are so diverse, while many are segregated — affordable...
The fourth-graders at Claremont Elementary School in Franklin Township, New Jersey already know many of the basic building blocks of a good neighborhood. Days before the end of the school year in June,...
View ArticleA New Jersey Summer Rec Extravaganza
There are so many summer activities to do in New Jersey, it's too hard to count. To help give us with some recommendations of how to take advantage of the rest of the summer in Jersey, we're joined by...
View ArticleEven amid dire climate change warnings, NJ doesn’t protect farm workers from...
There are no heat-specific federal or New Jersey laws regulating conditions for the roughly 25,000 farmworkers in New Jersey — even as state environmental experts expect the number of heat-related...
View ArticleOn Staten Island, 2 months of back rent can end in eviction
The owner of a large housing complex in New Dorp, Staten Island, is carrying out more evictions than any other landlord in the borough, with dozens of tenants — including many with rent subsidies —...
View ArticleFood pantry visits surge in NYC as 'perfect storm' over benefit delays and...
Lines for hot meals and free groceries are growing longer, New York City nonprofits say, citing a surge in recent months reminiscent of the worst days of the pandemic when crowds wrapped around the...
View ArticleNYC pushes to get migrants work permits, but shelter evictions could...
Some New York City legal services providers are worried that the Adams administration’s recent policy of evicting thousands of migrants from homeless shelters after 30 or 60 days and making them...
View ArticleMigrant students face schooling uncertainty as NYC gives families 60 days to...
Education and child advocates say the new shelter limits will force families to make difficult choices about keeping their children in their current schools while finding a new place to live.
View ArticleMany migrant kids at NYC schools are new to English. They're finding creative...
Valeska Cardona, 9, is still far from calling herself conversational in English — she’s trying to remember how to pronounce the word orange — but she says she’s cracked the code for making a...
View ArticleMigrant teens and young adults aren't getting necessary help, according to...
New York City is shuttling new arrivals into a different propped up shelter system than the general homeless population — a process that’s leaving older teens and young adult migrants without access to...
View ArticleMigrant families facing eviction from NYC shelter get 1 additional week to...
Migrant families with children won’t be forced to leave their homeless shelters during the holidays, but still face unclear directives from the city and a looming deadline to find other housing or...
View ArticleDozens of migrant families booted from NYC shelter as 60-day notices come due
Migrant families and their children began packing up and leaving their homeless shelter at the Row Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, saying goodbye to the place they’ve called home since...
View ArticleThis Week in Politics: A first wave of deadlines for migrant families in NYC...
This week, a first wave of migrant families living in New York City shelters reached a new deadline to move out. And that's just one of the many challenges with finding shelter that migrants in our...
View Article‘Most of us have gone through this’: Yonkers workers show new migrants the...
Silvano Bautista said he started noticing new groups of workers at the day laborer stops in Yonkers last summer. Most of them were Venezuelan, he said, and staying at a nearby migrant hotel shelter....
View ArticleThis NYC job training program is helping young adults pivot to high-earning...
A group of adults eager to switch careers or leave their low-wage gigs graduated from a unique job training program last month, ready to work in a growing industry: managing modern-day buildings.The...
View ArticleNYC expands meal delivery service for seniors as more fall into poverty
The Adams administration is expanding its program to deliver free meals to older adults at home, citing a post-pandemic rise in isolation and decreased mobility among the city’s oldest New Yorkers.In...
View ArticleAs more people turn to collecting bottles and cans, NY lawmakers push...
The workers who collect empty bottles and cans from the city's streets and trash bins want state lawmakers to double the refunds they get from recycling containers from 5 cents to 10 cents, which would...
View ArticleMigrant families suffering from PTSD find temporary relief from NYC shelter...
Some migrant families whose children have medical or mental health conditions are finding relief from having to move out of their shelters and reapply for housing despite the city limiting how long...
View ArticleNYC Mayor Adams reaches settlement in fight to roll back right to shelter
New York City officials reached an agreement on Friday to modify the city’s unique right to shelter rules by capping stays for newly arrived migrant adults, following a monthslong court fight over...
View ArticleWant to snag an appointment for NYC’s coveted ID card? Join the Friday PM rush.
Appointments for New York City’s municipal identification cards are getting harder to snag as demand for the popular photo IDs surges, but some nonprofit groups helping people apply say they’ve finally...
View ArticleHere's how NYC families can get free, quality childcare through a federal...
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is calling for more investment in early childhood education to stop New York City's exodus of working- and middle-class residents, who are leaving because they can’t...
View ArticleMayor Adams’ homeless encampment sweeps reached new high last fall
As Mayor Eric Adams doubles down on increasing police visibility to combat what he calls a perception of lawlessness in the city, his administration continued to ratchet up police-involved sweeps of...
View ArticleWhy child care is so expensive in NYC that it's become a crisis
The New York City Council is urging the Adams administration to reverse $1 billion in planned budget cuts, including $170 million in funding for early childhood education that lawmakers say is crucial...
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