Daniel Parra
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New York, NY, United States
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NYC Homeless Shelter System Awaits Some Immigrants Bused From Texas
After a two-month journey from South America to the U.S. Border and a two-day bus ride from Texas to New York City, immigrants who spoke with City Limits just wanted a bite to eat and a place to rest. "I just want to work and get ahead," one recently-arrived man said. → Read More
Street Vending Tickets Went Up During First Year of New Enforcement Policy
The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) took over as the main city agency handling street vendor enforcement last June. But the NYPD remains active in enforcement, too. Together, the agencies issued 2,427 tickets to vendors during the year ending in May, a 33 percent increase compared to 2019, when police alone issued 1,609 tickets. → Read More
Who Are The Families Entering NYC Shelters From the Southern Border?
For weeks, City Limits has been talking to several Latin American families who entered the city's shelter system after arriving in the U.S. from southern border states. Mayor Eric Adams has accused Texas and Arizona of sending newly-arrived immigrants to the city, something governors of both states have denied, and the families who spoke with City Limits said they came here with help from… → Read More
Green Design Could Prevent Ida-Style Flooding in 40K Queens Basements: Report
Just three acres in Central Queens are designed to handle stormwater runoff, but to more effectively prevent flooding, the area would need about 120 acres of green infrastructure, the report found. → Read More
Uneven Distribution of Language Interpreters on Slow NYC Primary Day
Spanish translators were missing at two Queens polling places that City Limits visited Tuesday morning, while interpreters for other languages said they had interacted with very few voters. → Read More
Meet Your New NYC Council: Bronx Students Interview Their Reps
To learn more about these new officials and their plans for their time in office, City Limits partnered with students from the Department of Journalism & Media Studies at CUNY’s Lehman College, who contacted their district representatives for audio interviews. → Read More
Photo Essay: The Bronx's Shrinking Auto Corridor
According to the United Auto Merchants Association (UAMA), a nonprofit trade group, between 35 and 40 auto and auto-related businesses on Jerome Avenue have been displaced since the city's 2018 rezoning of the corridor, and around 150 still operate. → Read More
What You Need To Know: How Can Undocumented New Yorkers Apply For Storm Damage Assistance?
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the creation of a $27 million relief program for undocumented survivors of the flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. → Read More
Four Candidates Vie For City's 8th District, One Seeks Re-election
Big differences in money raised for the campaign separates the candidates in the 8th district, which includes neighborhoods in Manhattan and the South Bronx. → Read More
Unresolved Questions About NY’s Excluded Workers Fund—& What We Can Learn From Other States
How did relief funds for immigrants and excluded workers work in California and Chicago, and what lessons can New York learn as it prepares to launch its own aid program? → Read More
ICE Reactivates in New York: Advocates Demand Investigation
ICE agents have once again been active in neighborhoods such as Sunset Park, Red Hook, Bay Ridge and Fort Greene in Brooklyn, as well as in upper Manhattan and the Bronx, according to advocates. → Read More
Amid Unemployment and Restrictions, Latino Businesses Struggle
Nationally, Latinos represent 18 percent of the nation's workforce, but they are overrepresented in industries that lost thousands of jobs as a result of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. → Read More
In Run for Congress, Díaz Sr.'s Strategy is to Give Out Food and Skip Debates
His campaign relies on Twitter and Facebook posts, pictures, and videos capturing him doing old-school politics, like giving away food, toys and—since the coronavirus pandemic hit New York—masks. → Read More
How Widespread Was Violence on New York's Nights of 'Unrest'?
To get a better sense of what was seen around the city last week, City Limits surveyed all the city's 59 community boards to ask what violent unrest—and peaceful protest—they had seen. → Read More
City's Courts Seen Lacking in Interpreters
There appears to be no accurate record of how many people per month or per year require the services of an interpreter to exercise their right to access to justice. → Read More
Slow Start for City Fund to Help the Undocumented as Private Money Dries Up
Likely CBO partners have not received detailed information from the city about how the immigrant emergency relief program will operate. → Read More
More Questions Than Answers About the Racial & Ethnic Skew in COVID-19 Deaths
There’s been less discussion of how underlying conditions and longstanding inequalities actually translated into deaths, or about other factors that might help to explain the racial disparities characterizing COVID-19’s impact. → Read More
Undocumented, Essential and Sick: The Coronavirus Comes to the Farm
First came the fever, then dark urine and diarrhea, then a cough 'that wanted to tear my throat up.' And then his roommate got sick, too. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: People Detained for Parole Violations Still at Risk, Advocates Say
The new budget totals $89.3 billion, with more than $2 billion in cuts. These cuts include service reductions for 50 municipal initiatives, but programs serving the city's youth incurred some of the most significant cuts. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: New Calls for Action to Protect Inmates as Death Rate Inches Up
The announcement came nearly four weeks after de Blasio on March 15 reluctantly closed the schools through April 19. Gov. Cuomo announced earlier this week that schools statewide would be closed through April 29. → Read More