📦 Food delivery workers in New York City earned an additional $104 million in tips after the city started enforcing a law to crack down on “deceptive” tipping practices from delivery apps.
New York City just broke ground on 50K affordable homes — the public can track construction in real-time
On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed three executive orders to fulfill his housing agenda, including the development of the Land Inventory Fast Track, a “multi-agency effort to identify city-controlled land that is suitable for housing.”
Exactly eight months later, the city has broken ground on a large-scale affordable housing project, utilizing more than 100 city-owned sites to build an estimated 50,000 new affordable homes for New Yorkers.
The ground-breaking also comes with a new interactive tracking tool called the LIFT Tracker, a map available to any member of the public that shows real-time progress on these housing projects and available land across the city.
Why is this good news? While New Yorkers are “priced out of their homes,” Mamdani said, the city has land suitable for homes, libraries, and other community amenities. This effort, part of a larger effort to add 200,000 units of new affordable homes in the next decade, is making sure that land is actually serving the community.
A Colorado couple has grown thousands of tree seedlings — and given them all away for free
Since 2007, Elizabeth Black and Chris Brown have grown over 12,000 tree and shrub seedlings in their backyard and given them away for free to anyone willing to plant them.
They were inspired by an emphatic message in the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth:” Plant trees — lots and lots of trees. That’s when Black began studying the ins and outs of seeds: collecting, planting, germinating, and propagating.
Chris Hawkins, Colorado Urban Conservation Manager for The Nature Conservancy, believes the impact of Black and Brown’s work is immeasurable. Each donated tree provides far more than simple shade — they contribute to cleaner air, cooler neighborhoods, improved stormwater management, and better habitats for birds and pollinators.
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