By law, NYC Votes must send a Voter Guide to every household with a registered voter in New York City for city elections. Based on census data, we send a guide in English and Spanish to every registered voter and in Chinese, Korean, and Bengali to voters in targeted areas.
The NYCEM Hurricane Evacuation Zone Map can be used to help New Yorkers find out if they live in an evacuation zone, to locate the nearest evacuation center and to learn what to do before a storm.
The ABC's of Housing is HPD's guide to housing rules and regulations for owners and tenants.This booklet is designed to help owners and tenants gain an understanding of the rules and regulations affecting housing and provide you with information about where you can receive assistance.
Apartment/ Loft Order #51 establishes the lease guidelines for rent stabilized apartments and lofts effective between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020.
This guide provides tips on how to stay healthy and cool during the summer months, conserve water and energy and identify and treat individuals with heat-related illnesses.
Consumers may request at any time that a debt collector stop communicating with them permanently about a debt or alleged debt. If you are facing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis, you can request that debt collection agencies stop contacting you temporarily about the debt.
In February 2021, the Chief Privacy Officer (“CPO”) released revised privacy protection policies and protocols for New York City (“CPO Policies”). The CPO, who heads Mayor’s Office of Information Privacy (“MOIP”), first issued the CPO Policies in January 2019.
On February 6, 2023, the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) published revised citywide privacy protection policies and protocols for New York City. The CPO, who heads the Office of Information Privacy, published the previous version of the policies in February 2021.
Chart outlining incident command system organization chart, core competencies of City agencies and partners, incident sequence, and NYC emergency management roles. Version 1.
Chart outlining incident command system organization chart, core competencies of City agencies and partners, incident sequence, and NYC emergency management roles. Version 2 published 12/21/2017 - only changes made were to Commissioner name and color scheme.
This guide includes charts which describe ICS organization, command element, agency core competencies, primary and supporting agencies by incident type, incident sequence and NYCEM's role.
The Mayor's Office of Information Privacy, lead by the Chief Privacy Officer, has released the city's first privacy protection protocols for the City of New York. This Policy sets forth the baseline requirements for City agencies relating to the protection of identifying information.
The Guidelines provide step-by-step instructions on how to supplement historic climate data with specific, regional, forward looking climate change data in the design of City facilities.
SBS developed this Comprehensive Guide to BID Formation and Expansion to outline the multi-year process to form a new BID and serve as a resource for those interested in expanding an existing BID.
This guide provides basic information to consider before you enter into a commercial lease in New York City. Topics include location selection, evaluating space needs, space construction, working with professionals, reviewing key lease terms, and limiting business and personal risk.
This guide is a resource for local stakeholders to start the process of merchant organizing and potentially form a formal merchants association to bring additional resources to commercial corridors in New York City.
CRIMINAL RECORD? YOU CAN WORK WITH THAT. Criminal history can’t be part of the hiring process until after a job offer. That means you get a fair chance, and employers get to consider more candidates.
CRIMINAL RECORD? YOU CAN WORK WITH THAT. When employers consider qualifications first, more New Yorkers go to work. That makes businesses strong and powers our economy.
This guide provides a summary of the rights and responsibilities, pertinent to residential properties and leases, of diplomatic tenants and their landlords in New York City. It also includes steps that can be taken to address violations, as well as relevant points of contact.
All New Yorkers deserve to have equal access to housing, employment, and public places. Our factsheets give a snapshot of rights and responsibilities under the NYC Human Rights Law.
This document provides information regarding new protections for tenants and individuals seeking housing who are victims/survivors of domestic violence, sex offenses, or stalking, with a specific focus on obligations of housing providers.
Employers: What You Need to Know About Social Security Administration No-Match Letters. Taking an adverse action against an employee due to a discrepancy, such as putting an employee on leave or terminating employment, could violate the NYC Human Rights Law (NYCHRL).
The Street Harassment Resource Guide, 'End Street Harassment,' is an accessible, practical, comprehensive document that contains important information for New Yorkers on how they can prevent and respond to street harassment.
Executive Order 16 requires all City agencies to ensure that City employees and members of the public have access to single-sex facilities consistent with their gender identity or expression without being required to show identification.
A compilation of forty years of public art on display in NYC Parks including images and descriptions of public art displays in the Parks Department gallery.
Hotel Order #49 establishes the lease guidelines for rent stabilized Class A hotels, Class B hotels, lodging houses, rooming houses and SROs effective between Oct. 1, 2019 and Sept. 30, 2020.
IDNYC Benefits Guide is a multilingual brochure that provides an overview of the key benefits associated with the IDNYC card in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. Additional translations of the Benefits Guide can be found here https://www1.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/benefits/benefits.page.
If you work in NYC, you have rights regardless of immigration status, national origin, or country of origin.
In addition to the languages checked off, it's also available in Nepali, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, Vietnamese, and Punjabi.
Describes FAQs about public charge and Trump administration's rule proposal. Details resources for legal services and calls for action on submitting a comment