Mayor DeBlasio has marshalled agencies together to implement a series of additional efforts to support and improve the health, safety and working conditions for the city’s 65,000+ delivery workers.
DSNY installed 16 pioneering “Smart Bins” to collect food scraps in Astoria, Queens. Along with a similar pilot launched by Alliance for Downtown New York in Lower Manhattan this week, these bins are the first test of an effort to allow round-the-clock drop-off of compostable material.
On December 9, 2021, the Deputy Comptroller for Audit and Investigation by letter provided the New York City Schools Chancellor with the results of an investigation the New York City Comptroller’s Office conducted of the Department of Education’s (DOE’s) procurement of food.
Describes factors related to food insecurity and access during the 1st year of the COVID-19 pandemic, including economic barriers to food (increased prices, less income); households with children and NYers in low income neighborhoods were very impacted.
The Department of Sanitation announced the next Community Boards to receive Curbside Composting following its pandemic-related suspension and relaunch. Service is being restored as a sign-up only program.
This quarterly report lists all of the emergency feeding programs in NYC and all of the quantities of applications distributed reflect a quantity of “0“reflecting HRA's focus of submitting SNAP applications electronically.
For the FY 2021 reporting period, MOCS worked to improve upon the data collection process for the Local Law 50 report. In addition to gathering information on food related purchases from the City’s Financial Management System, we reached out to all City agencies to independently confirm what, if any
The NYC Department of Sanitation has announced that curbside composting is on the way back to many city residents! By composting, New Yorkers keep their neighborhoods clean, reduce waste being sent to landfills, create compost for City Parks, and produce clean, renewable energy to heat homes.
Charter section 20-d(f) requires the Nightlife Advisory Board to submit recommendations about nightlife in New York City to the Mayor and the City Council. This report contains those recommendations.