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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has introduced a $38.4 million funding to put in electrical warmth pumps at NYCHA’s Seashore forty first Road Homes improvement in Edgemere as a part of efforts to deliver dependable heating to NYCHA tenants throughout the town. Mamdani mentioned the eco-friendly electrical warmth pumps, which have been first put in at Woodside Homes in 2023, would deliver dependable warmth to all 712 models on the Seashore forty first Road improvement. The brand new pumps will substitute conventional pumps powered by pure fuel, which Mamdani mentioned would offer extra dependable, inexpensive and environmentally-friendly warmth for NYCHA residents. He…
Nurses make their calls for clear on the picket line exterior Mount Sinai on Jan. 12, 2026. Photograph by Dean Moses The biggest nurses strike in NYC historical past entered its twenty fourth day on Wednesday with almost 15,000 caretakers nonetheless off the job. Members of the NYC Council’s Progressive Caucus, together with Tiffany Cabán, Alexa Avilés and Sandy Nurse, supported the nurses on the picket line exterior NewYork-Presbyterian, one of many three non-public hospitals concerned within the strike, of their combat for safer staffing. Staffing requirements have been a sticking level in contract negotiations between the nurses’ union and…