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Queens Eagle

“There is a realistic plan for reducing the jail population to meet the target of fewer than 3,300 individuals incarcerated in city jails, and a critical component is prioritizing decarceration of people with mental health concerns and expanding supportive housing and community mental health supports,” said Jennifer J. Parish, the director of Criminal Justice Advocacy at Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project

NY Daily News

“This administration has consistently undermined its legal and moral obligation to close Rikers and complete construction of the borough-based jail system by the mandated deadline of 2027,” said Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda.

Gothamist

"Marika Dias, managing director for the Safety Net Project, a homeless advocacy group, said decades of disinvestment in public housing and NYCHA’s systemic failure to secure basic repairs for existing tenants and fix empty apartments are at the root of the problem."

AM NY

"Supported by Times Square Arts and the Street Vendor Project, the art installation Hot Dog in the City was co-created by conceptual artists Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw...Mohamed Attia, managing director of SVP, was once a hot dog vendor in the same location for five years. “Between 2010 and 2014, if you passed Times Square around that time, you probably purchased a hot dog from me."

W42nd

Mohamed Attia, the managing director of the Street Vendor Project, remembers first encountering the hot dog when he began working as a vendor himself 15 years ago. “I was told that there are businesses that are based on one item and one item only, and that item was the hot dog,” he said. “Hundreds of food vendors actually make a living and thrive in our city selling this iconic snack.” 

QNS

The Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center took umbrage with Moya’s comments to Telemundo, saying, “We have regulations here; if you want to do something, you have to apply to get a license to vend.”