Espaillat has benefited from more than $4 million in outside spending. Some $1 million has been spent on Avila Chevalier. Both traded barbs about that during a forthcoming BronxNet debate.
Animal welfare advocates rallied to support the latest legislation after over a decade of failed attempts to end the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a pro-Palestinian activist and self-described “millennial with an internet connection” is actually giving Rep. Adriano Espaillat a run for his money.
The mayor has proposed defunding the Portal software platform, which connects people across different city agencies and nonprofits who work with the city’s children.
The city’s choice to spend billions of dollars maintaining a shelter system instead of investing in permanent housing isn’t fiscally responsible, it’s unforgivable.