Chin, Rosenthal Meet with Committee on Aging and Women
The Committees on Aging and Women, chaired by Council Members Margaret S. Chin (D-Battery Park City, Chinatown) and Helen Rosenthal (D- Central Park, Lincoln Square) respectively, will be holding an oversight hearing tomorrow on the plight of elderly women living in poverty.
Chin and Rosenthal will discuss the factors that contribute to the growing number of impoverished elderly women – including the wage gap and disproportionately high medical expenses for women – and what can be done to counteract them.
The hearing is slated for tomorrow, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., in the Council Chambers at City Hall.
NYC Advisory Commission Holds Meeting on Tax Reform
The New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform, formed by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson,(D-Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen) will be holding a meeting today.
Johnson, along with a panel of experts, will be exploring the topic of “incidence”, or the negative effect of the property tax on public economic welfare. The purpose of the panel is to conceive and share recommendations to reform the property tax system in order to alleviate that burden.
The hearing will be held today from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., at the New York City Council at 250 Broadway.
Chin, Deutsch, Koo Respond to Recent Hate Crime
Council Members Margaret Chin (D-Battery Park City, Chinatown), Chaim Deutsch (D-Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach) and Peter Koo (D-Downtown Flushing, Murray Hill) released a statement about a hate crime in Brooklyn that left one man dead and two others critically injured.
Last Tuesday, a hammer-wielding assailant attacked three Asian workers at the Seaport Buffet. Fufai Pun, a chef, was killed in the attack, while his two coworkers, Tsz Mat Pun and Kheong Ng-Thang, were hospitalized. In response, Chin, Deutsch and Koo released the following statement:
“We call upon the NYPD and District Attorney Eric Gonzalez to use all available tools to investigate and prosecute this horrific and hate-filled attack,” they said. “Both the DA and the NYPD, have an opportunity to send a clear message that such a clear targeting of the Asian community will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law… let’s be clear: no New Yorker should ever fear that someone could end their lives just because they are of a certain ethnicity.”
