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‘Information is power’: New law empowers rent-stabilized tenants to fight overcharges • Brooklyn Paper Landlords who own buildings with one or more rent-stabilized units are now required to post signs informing tenants that the building contains rent-stabilized

ICYMI: Buildings with rent stabilized units will soon have signage alerting tenants to the building's status! This is just a small, simple awareness tool to empower tenants.

Thanks #BrooklynPaper for covering the bill.
www.brooklynpaper.com/rent-stabliz...

Our Caucus Co-Chairs @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social and
@cmsandynurse.bsky.social, and Vice Co-Chairs @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social and @cndelarosa.bsky.social
issued a statement in response to a targeted shooting outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.:

The drone attack on the Freedom Flotilla, delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, is a blatant and transparent violation of international law and human decency. Targeting those bringing relief to civilians is indefensible. Solidarity with everyone at the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

Eric Adams is despicable, never wanted to #CloseRikers and now that he is a total lame duck he floats this. @sandynurse.bsky.social says it best “ Any attempt to reverse the law that requires the city to close Rikers is a useless unproductive waste of f-king time” @nycprogressives.bsky.social

Issue No. 6 from @hammerandhope.bsky.social is full of gems from some super talented people who are reflecting on this moment. Check out the full issue!

Thanks to @astra.bsky.social for inviting me to opine on what this moment feels like from inside the largest City Hall in the country.

I wrote for @hammerandhope.bsky.social about why Black Leftists must take power in the streets and in elected office.

In this era, protest isn’t enough. We need Black Leftists in City Halls across America.

Stop ceding ground.
Take power at all levels.

Read: hammerandhope.org/forums/georg...

Our campaign is endorsed by workers who build, run and care for this city. Our team fights everyday for a city where every worker, every family, and every neighborhood thrives. I’m proud to be a candidate backed by labor! 💪🏽

Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult

✏️ Today, our members penned an open letter to NYC college and university presidents:

We write this letter as the New York City Council Progressive Caucus representing over 3 million people, many of whom are students, faculty and staff at your institutions.

My universal child care plan isn't built on feel-good rhetoric or empty promises. It's a real, actionable plan that leverages the full power of the comptroller’s office to address our city's child care crisis with strategic audits, smart investments & a commitment to families.

The 12,000-acre Jones Road Wildfire has already destroyed multiple buildings, vehicles, and at least one commercial property: bit.ly/4480PyC

🌎Happy Earth Day! Today, our team is celebrating some of the climate justice wins for our district and across the city!

In 2024, The @council.nyc.gov unanimously passed my bill Local Law 99 putting NYC on a path to install 150 MW by 2035 using union labor.

Thank you Rep. Nydia Velazquez, BK Boro President Antonio Reynoso, @juliasalazar.bsky.social, Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, Councilmember Jen Gutiérrez, @sandynurse.bsky.social and Councilmember Lincoln Restler.

New Law Takes Effect Requiring New York City to Install Solar Power on Public Buildings

The law, intro by Council Member @sandynurse.bsky.social and passed unanimously by the NYC Council, commits the city to install 100 MW of solar energy by 2030 & 150 MW by 2035, which will bring solar energy to approx 700 bldgs, with a focus on disadvantaged communities.

nycclc.org/news/new-law...

🧵Today I chaired the @council.nyc.gov Criminal Justice Committee hearing on the Independent Commission's Blueprint to Close Rikers.

Alongside my colleagues, we're pushing for urgent action and investments to close Rikers and improve public safety as outlined by the Commission's findings.

This Wednesday, I'll be hosting an oversight committee hearing examining the Independent Rikers Commission's Blueprint to Close Rikers.

Join us in person, watch the livestream at council.nyc.gov/livestream, or submit testimony at council.nyc.gov/testify

VICTORY!

The New York City Council, thanks to @cmsandynurse.bsky.social, just passed #FreeToPee legislation that would create, maintain, & report on 2,000+ public restrooms by 2035. When ya gotta go, ya gotta go — and now people in NYC won't have to purchase anything to meet their basic needs!

Progressive Caucus Council Members at CM Shahana Hanif canvass launch. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
🎉☂️ @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @alexaforcouncil.bsky.social @sandynurse.bsky.social @chiosse.bsky.social @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @newkingsdems.bsky.social @bkforge.bsky.social & BK Young Dems

Progressive Day of Action with #TeamShahana–Council Members and More! · Shahana Hanif For City Council Join six members of the Council Progressive Caucus–Chi Ossé, Alexa Avilés, Sandy Nurse, Julie Won, Amanda Farias, and Jennifer Gutierrez–alongside the Brooklyn Young Democrats, Indivisible Brooklyn, N...

Big one tomorrow!

Join us Sat, April 12 to support @shahanafrombk.bsky.social!

Feat. @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social, @alexaforcouncil.bsky.social, @sandynurse.bsky.social, @chiosse.bsky.social, BK Young Dems, @bkforge.bsky.social, @bkindivisible.bsky.social and more!

12 pm in Park Slope, RSVP here:

HUGE VICTORY! Thank you to Picture the Homeless for starting this work, @vocal-ny.bsky.social for carrying it forward, and @sandynurse.bsky.social for championing it in the city council!
#Free2Pee

This day has been a swirl!🥁

Thank you to everyone who organized for years and to my colleagues who supported the cause. 1000+ new public bathrooms are on the way.

Today, we actually got some 💩 done!

Up early to talk about 1000+ more public toilets coming to NYC! 🚽

Thanks @patkiernan.bsky.social @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social for having me on #Morningson1!

Tune in for the @council.nyc.gov vote on our Bathroom Bill later today ⬇️
council.nyc.gov/livestream/

@WhiteHouse: DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED

Me, wary, to my hissing cat, with a medication syringe in my hand.

New Yorkers Deserve a Mayor With Good Character Both Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo have become experts at dodging hard questions and avoiding accountability. Voters shouldn’t accept that, writes Errol Louis.

Both Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo have become experts at dodging hard questions and avoiding accountability. Voters shouldn’t accept that, writes Errol Louis.

🗣️Tomorrow! Join the #FreetoPee coalition for a rally ahead of the Council vote on our Bathroom Bill!

We need a citywide public bathroom network of 2100+ restrooms. Why?

💩 We all gotta go
🩸 For menstruators
🤰🏿 For the pregnant
👵🏽 For older adults
👶🏻 For the babies
🚴🏽‍♀️ For workers
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 For everyone!

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

Adams Administration Inks Executive Order Allowing ICE Back on Rikers Island After the Trump administration demanded the mayor’s cooperation on immigration enforcement, a deputy authorizes federal officials to resume operations at the city’s jail complex.

New: First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing ICE to reestablish an office on Rikers, rolling back a provision of the city’s sanctuary protections that had been on the books for more than a decade. — with @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/09/r...

New Yorkers aren’t stupid. We see exactly what this is. Eric Adams is letting ICE onto Rikers to serve his deal with Trump and court MAGA support, now that he’s back to being a Republican.

Hope to see a new advocate for alternatives to incarceration in the Council.

Reporter: Do you think you can have a good relationship with a mayor Andrew Cuomo? Trump: I've always gotten along with him.

Of course Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo have “always gotten along”

Both men are serial sexual harassers driven by massive ego and the desire to weaponize literally anything for personal political gain.