The de Blasio Administration announced the launch of its first large-scale solar program at NYCHA, which will provide low income New Yorkers, including public housing residents, access to clean, low-cost energy throughout the city and jobs in the growing solar industry.
Each school year there is considerable movement of students who transfer from one school to another or out of the city’s public school system altogether.
On a typical day in fiscal year 2016, there were about 9,700 people in New York City jails: roughly 7,700 pretrial detainees, 1,200 sentenced to serve time in city jails, and 800 sentenced to terms in state prisons but who remained in city custody.
Among the many spending reductions included in President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget are cuts to federal aid for lowincome individuals and families, including cash assistance, food stamps, and Supplemental Security Income.
The number of inmates in New York State prisons reached a peak of over 71,000 as the 1990s turned to the 2000s, and then fell to 51,743 in January 2016.
The number of hospitalizations at public and voluntary hospitals in New York City has been declining for some time, falling from 1.3 million hospitalizations in 2009 to 1.1 million in 2014.
Customer service related articles from various agencies and, where applicable, includes photos, tables and charts as well as agency contact information. The newsletter is distributed primarily to agency Customer Service Liaisons and is also posted online on the Mayor's Office of Operations website.
Efforts to rezone elementary schools to increase socioeconomic integration and ease overcrowding can spark vigorous debate in the affected communities. But admissions methods vary across the 32 school districts, and even among individual schools within districts.
The number of students in the city’s public schools who lived for some part of the school year in New York’s homeless shelters during school year 2015-2016 rose by more than 4,000, or 15 percent, over the preceding year to nearly 33,000.