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One of many issues that has at all times made me pleased with being a part of CUNY is its extraordinary poetic legacy, which fits again many years and consists of many poet laureates. And now, I’m particularly moved to see our newest poetry prodigy, Stephanie Pacheco, a younger scholar whose work has already been acknowledged on a nationwide degree, put her CUNY expertise into verse. Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of becoming a member of Stephanie at an occasion the place we marked Nationwide Poetry Month by unveiling her poem “Dear CUNY,” her lyrical and stirring ode…
Hire Pointers Board members on the June 17, 2024 assembly. Picture by Dean Moses Amid a 2025 NYC mayor’s race during which a number of Democratic candidates have proven curiosity in freezing hire will increase for stabilized tenants, Mayor Eric Adams not solely declined on Monday to do the identical but additionally challenged his rivals to pair their proposals with plans to guard small landlords from taking a monetary hit. Throughout an unrelated April 28 press convention in Brooklyn, the mayor didn’t straight reply a reporter’s query about whether or not he would assist freezing the hire for town’s roughly…