Early Addition: Does a NYC housing lottery policy perpetuate segregation?

Also, Revel returns to the Bronx. [View this email in a browser.]( [Get a T-Shirt When You Donate!]( Gothamist relies on your support to make news available to all. This month only: You'll get a t-shirt when you become a member. [Donate Now]( [NYC residents get a leg up in housing lotteries in their own neighborhoods. Does that perpetuate segregation?]( [first image]( [by Emily Nadal]( It’s Monday in New York City and some residents are arguing that a housing lottery rule, which reserves some below-market units for locals already living in the community, is discriminatory. A federal lawsuit, which was recently cleared for trial, claims the [policy perpetuates racial segregation]( limits the housing choices of applicants who want to move beyond their neighborhood and violates federal fair housing law. Here’s what else is happening: - Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Sunday that [designates New York as a safe haven for trans youth]( families and their healthcare providers as a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation are being introduced elsewhere nationwide. - Some NYC school cafeterias were providing hearty meals to more than just students. Hundreds of [reports of rats, filth flies and roaches]( were made at private and public schools during the 2022-2023 school year. - NYC will [install safe e-bike]( charging and storing stations in public housing complexes across the city in the wake of a deadly fire at a Chinatown e-bike repair shop. - The fatal blaze was the [first of two fires]( that broke out at the same shop just days apart. - Uber’s e-bike replacement program is supposed to help the e-bike battery crisis by getting old e-bikes off of the street, but [many delivery workers don’t even know about it.]( - Revel scooters have [returned to the Bronx]( more than a year after they were pulled from the borough because of a 2021 spike in battery theft. - The heads of some local supermarket chains want the Department of Health to [crack down on fruit vendors]( arguing the stands are hurting their businesses while being able to skirt safety standards. - The personal information of roughly [45,000 students has been compromised]( during a NYC Department of Education data breach involving the file transfer software MOVEit. - A Queens man is making bank by issuing noise complaints for businesses playing loud music. Those business owners are fed up, [telling NBC 4 that the civilian complaint system is being abused](. - City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán introduced a [bill to decriminalize sex work](. Cabán and Ane Mathieson, Project Director at the EMPOWER Center, spoke on WNYC’s All Things Considered about the issue and legislation. - Sales of the hottest toy on the market right now aren’t even being driven by kids. The [Squishmallow]( has a strong 18+ population.]( - Supporters of a law that expands voting rights to a million immigrants in NYC [took their case to the Appellate Court in Brooklyn]( Friday in an attempt to overturn a lower court ruling that barred the law from taking effect. - You might be able to finally try Chrissy’s Pizza, a pie made from inside of a Brooklyn apartment. The popular, always sold out pizza place is moving to a [new East Village home]( for an undetermined amount of time starting next month. - Experts are still trying to find the source of a food parasite that has [recently affected up to 30 people in New York]( and more than 200 people across the country. “I want everybody who lives in any part of the city to be able to apply for affordable housing in any part of the city on an equal playing field. That’s all I want.” - Shauna Noel, A plaintiff in a lawsuit against the city that argues [HOUSING LOTTERY POLICIES ARE DISCRIMINATORY.]( More from Gothamist [second image]( ['Strengthening the community': NYC Pride March pops off as others push anti-LGBTQ bills]( New York City’s Pride March drew tens of thousands of revelers to Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday as lawmakers in other states continue to push anti-LGBTQ legislation. 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