QNS

"Twenty-five years of building this movement, bringing the vendor movement to where it is right now. We have recruited more than 3,700 members, all of whom are street vendors. We’re looking at a lot of progress over the last couple of years. Earlier this year, we passed the street vendor reform package. It’s a huge package of bills that will change the landscape of the street vendor and the street vending system. Offering licenses, creating services for the vendor community and so much more."

Gay City News

"Voces Latinas, Ali Forney Center, New Pride Agenda, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the Sex Workers Project, and the Free to Be Youth Project were among other organizations involved in the City Hall rally."

New York Focus

"It is not completely surprising that only one homeless New Yorker has retrieved belongings from storage,” said Marika Dias, an attorney and the managing director of the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project, the group leading the lawsuit that led to the court order."

Gothamist

"NYC DOC in fact has the highest staffing ratio of any jail system in the entire country, but that does nothing to help people in their care when they don't carry out the most basic functions of their job,” he said."

Brooklyn News Service

"Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda and a former Rikers inmate, testified that more than 1,500 people at Rikers have been diagnosed with serious mental illness, a figure he said has increased 83% since 2022."

Canary Media

"Batteries also tend to cost more upfront than generators, and vendors must be able to afford a system big enough to get them through the entire day. The nonprofit Street Vendor Project — a partner on the PopWheels effort in Queens — ran a pilot a couple of years ago in which it provided NYC vendors with batteries they were responsible for charging themselves."

Gothamist

"The death reports BOC has issued over the past several years point out a tragic pattern — officers too often leave their posts to congregate with other officers, and when they are on post, fail to fulfill their most basic responsibility to check that people in their care are safe,” said Darren Mack, the cofounder of the Freedom Agenda, a group that has long pushed to close Rikers Island."

Gothamist

"The idea that our criminal legal system produces so much despair should be chilling to all of us," Darren Mack, co-director of the Freedom Agenda, said in a statement Thursday. The nonprofit is an advocacy group that supports decarceration."

Daily News

"For Mr. Lopez Castillo, that included a year and counting at Rikers with no resolution to his case. We are grieving with his family at this horrific confirmation."

Gothamist

"It’s time to stop sending people into this death camp. We need urgent action from City Hall to substantially reduce the jail population and get people out of this hellhole – and this preventable death is yet another human cost of delay,” Mack said."