New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a cybersecurity joint collaborative effort with 6 of its cities to have a command center located at Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center. Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, Rochester, and Albany are joining New York’s cybersecurity avengers team. https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-state-top-cities-fight-cybersecurity-threats-downtown-brooklyn

The ongoing besieged and understaffed US Immigration courts has many legal professionals doubting whether the current system is providing the best service to migrants and in fact may bot be notifying them ahead of their cases. People play politics and the blame game as basic functionalities of the[…]

If you are trying to stretch your dollar a little further and get a larger footprint take note of this study of Brooklyn neighborhoods. New York real estate firm StreetEasy published a January 2022 Market Report detailing the best neighborhood values and the flip side of that coin.[…]

New York has become the latest state to adopt a salary transparency law. The law will require employers to disclose salary range for any advertised job, promotion, or transfer. The law is meant to combat gender pay gaps and other possible discriminations. New York City to Require Employers[…]

This past Monday may have been Valentine’s Day but it was also a commercial holiday targeted by the New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) to stage protest and rallies dubbed ‘A Day Without Immigrants’ in an attempt to halt some of that commercial business. The group, in protests such[…]

After two years of COVID cancellations the St. Patrick’s Day Parades will be returning to Bay Ridge and Park Slope. For Bay Ridge, this will mark the 27th installment of the parade which began in 1993 at the suggestion and planning of local business owner Gene Reilly. St.[…]

The New York City Firefighters Union opposed the vaccine mandate being enforced by new Mayor Eric Adams but that has not stopped the bloodletting. New York City employees who have refused to get vaccination are being terminated. Time will tell whether their civil liberties and rights were violated[…]

A new exhibit at the Institute Of Public Architecture (IPA) suggests the possibility of New York doing away with the Brooklyn Queens Expressway – the BQE – and it being so close to being repaired. There are five proposals being championed by 5 different teams within the IPA[…]

It is almost a dead heat in the race to the top – of the skyline – in Brooklyn. The Alloy Block, Brooklyn Tower, Brooklyn Point, and 11 Hoyt are all vying to make the Brooklyn skyscrapers part of the New York skyline. https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/inside-the-race-to-build-brooklyns-tallest-tower/

The already documented backlog in New York’s Immigration Courts is now facing logistical, technical and communication issues and that’s affecting New Yorkers cases. Processing Issues in Immigration Courts Upending New Yorkers’ Cases, Lawyers Say