Thanks to the generous support of the Arlene Libowitz Fund, the Board will facilitate a client-centered practice that will truly infuse JRP clients as partners and leaders in the process.

The initiative will combat discrimination faced by workers with arrest or conviction records living in New York City, according to the Queens Daily Eagle.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is the fourth local prosecutor to release such a list following the Bronx, Brooklyn, and most recently, Queens, reports Gothamist.

The action would provide rent rebates to residents who went without heat or hot water during specific parts of the 2017-2018 winter, reports Fox 5 NY.

We have an intrinsic connection to the daily lives of New Yorkers. Here are a few of the places we made a difference, provided context or added valuable perspective this week.

Toys and donations were distributed to over 500 children and their families.

The Legal Aid Society, fellow local criminal justice advocacy organizations, elected officials, and New Yorkers from over-policed communities unveiled the new campaign – Erase The Database NYC – today at City Hall.

These reforms will help to unravel a system that long criminalized poverty, fed mass incarceration, led to wrongful convictions, and contributed to court delays, according to the New York Daily News.