Most renters know the feeling of waking up one morning to find that something has gone horribly wrong in their building. For my neighbors and me, this past February, a retaining wall behind our East Harlem building collapsed. It’s June, and it still hasn’t been fixed. Why? Because we don’t have a landlord, and no one wants to take responsibility. Here’s the thing: the tenants do. We have a rare opportunity to stop the sale of our building to yet another slumlord and put contr

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Asylum seekers bring economic opportunity to New York by Murad Awawdeh and Juanita Lewis (republished from LoHud) More than 70,000 new...

Reposted from Gotham Gazette by Cordell Cleare & Juanita O. Lewis As a New York State Senator serving Harlem and an Executive Director of...

Reposted from amNY By Juanita O. Lewis I’ve been organizing in Black and brown communities in New York State for 13 years. The biggest...

For the past year, amidst a global pandemic, record unemployment and the exacerbation of the housing crisis, New Yorkers can not wait any...