Josefa Velásquez
Articles by Josefa Velásquez
Josefa is a former WNYC & Gothamist editor.
The third installment of our community survey pilot dove into how the shops and their customers were adjusting to new trash pickup times and this year’s slate of environmental disasters.
Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research group, discusses the state's newly formed ethics board and why he thinks an Albany judge ruled it unconstitutional.
City officials were bracing for a strike next week just as the school year is set to begin.
La mayoría de clientes repiten quejas sobre el alza del delito y los investigadores observan un episodio de hurto a la tienda, “shoplifting”, mientras realizan la encuesta.
Most customers also echoed previous sentiments that crime was on the rise, and while conducting the surveying, researchers recorded an episode of shoplifting in real time.
Several nearby schools are under “shelter-in” orders as the suspects remain at-large.
En una nueva encuesta comunitaria de salud, preguntamos a los dueños y clientes de bodegas sobre el costo de alimentos, la carga mental del delito y sus opiniones sobre la legalización de la marihuana.
In a new health community survey, we asked bodega owners and customers about food costs, the mental toll of crime and their views on weed legalization.
The WNYC and Gothamist newsroom will host an event with Mayor Eric Adams, Comptroller Brad Lander and other top housing experts to discuss what the future of housing looks like in the five boroughs.
The soon-to-be-lawmaker said in a 2020 podcast that he received radiation therapy for the tumor.
The soon-to-be congressman admitted to fabricating key parts of his resume.
The Park Department’s annual “Mulchfest” offers drop offs around NYC to recycle trees into mulch.
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