Local Government
Mediating Establishment and Neighbor Disputes (MEND)
The Mayor announced MEND NYC, a program to provide mediation to New Yorkers and hospitality businesses across the city who are in disputes over quality-of-life issues. This is a free, innovative alternative that can bring lasting solutions to longstanding local issues, which are tracked by complaints to 311.
MEND (Mediating Establishment and Neighbor Disputes) NYC will serve hundreds of New York residents and businesses each year, creating opportunities to resolve disputes before they escalate to the need for formal enforcement, such as issuing summonses, which can add financial hardship to small businesses operating under new rules and guidelines. Mediation is a constructive conversation between people in conflict that is facilitated by an experienced, neutral third person. Mediation provides participants an opportunity to collaboratively design creative solutions and repair tense relationships. MEND will get businesses and New Yorkers to communicate directly and establish respectful ongoing dialogue, helping them to compromise and coexist.
The Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) will administer the MEND NYC program in partnership with the Office of Nightlife at the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. OATH is the City’s central independent administrative law court where summonses issued by the City’s various enforcement agencies are filed. Also housed in OATH is the City’s central mediation center, the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution, which has traditionally been responsible for mediating City government workplace conflict. MEND NYC will represent the first time OATH’s Center for Creative Conflict Resolution makes its services and expertise widely available to the general public, with mediations taking place outside of the OATH court system hearing process. OATH has professional mediators and conflict resolution trainers at its Center but OATH has also worked diligently to partner with conflict resolution groups and law schools across the City to build up a roster of trained mediators who can assist the MEND NYC program. These mediators will be working pro bono and will help ensure that the MEND NYC program is available to all who want to participate in this free option.
The Office of Nightlife, a non-enforcement liaison between the City and the nightlife industry and community, will be actively referring cases where there may be chronic or urgent quality of life complaints related to a restaurant, bar, or other nightlife venue. The Office of Nightlife will also provide education and support to businesses to assist with compliance and with maintaining good relationships with their neighbors.
Metropolitan Republican Club
Address: 122 East 83rd Street, New York, NY 10028-0838 Telephone: 212-288-8606 Email: mail@metclubnyc.org
neighborhoods.nyc
neighborhoods.nyc is a private-public partnership between the City of New York and Vizalytics Technology, Inc. It opens up government data so that it can be seen by the public. If you allow the website to "know" your Location or enter Murray Hill as the neighborhood, you will see information about traffic, transit, schools, complaints, etc. in Murray Hill.You can sign up to get email or text notices of 311 service requests and other public information at citygram.nyc.
New app for NYC students distance learning: Learn at Home
This app is now available on all DOE-issued iPads. The?Learn at Home app supports students’ remote-learning needs. It gives parents, students, and staff the ability to stay connected and informed through quick access to student accounts, other learning apps and technical support.
The app provides students with links to all the tools they need to attend class, complete assignments, and track their progress. The Learn at Home features can be accessed at schools.nyc.gov/learning/learn-at-home.
New York City Campaign Finance Board
100 Church Street
12th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Information for Voters, Candidates, explanation of the laws and rules.
New York City Department of Design & Construction (DDC) Projects Map
Map of DDC projects
DDC website: nyc.gov/ddc
New York City Department of Sanitation Digest of Codes
Call 311 or text 311-692 for complaints. Or visit their website: www.nyc.gov/sanitationPoison Control Center call: 212-764-7667
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Business owners are required to have proof of private carter service and must follow rules on when trash may be placed on sidewalks for collection. All trash must be placed out for collection as close to collection time as possible. If refuse is scheduled to be picked up after closing, merchants must place refuse outside within one hour of closing. If the collection service is performed during the business day, the refuse must be placed out for collection within two hours of collection time.
DOS rules also state that all cardboard must be flattened and secured with twine or placed in recycling containers or paper recycling bags. You may not use cardboard boxes as receptacles, even for flattened cardboard.
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Related Document: digest.pdf
New York State Senator - Liz Krueger - 28th Senate District
Email: lkrueger@nysenate.gov
District office:
211 East 43rd Street
Suite 1201
New York , NY 10017
Phone: 212-490-9535
Fax: 212-499-2558
New York State Senator, 27th District - Brad Hoylman
New York's 27th State Senate District covers much of the heart of Manhattan, including the neighborhoods of Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, the Upper West Side, Midtown/East Midtown, Columbus Circle, Times Square, Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, the East Village and Lower East Side.
Email: hoylman@nysenate.gov
Telephone: 212-633-8052
Address:
Legislative Office Building
Room 413,
Albany, NY 12247
District office:
322 Eighth Avenue
Suite 1700, New York
NY 10001
NY ABLE - Helping Individuals with Disabilities Achieve a Better Life Experience
The Stephen Beck, Jr. Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014 allows those with disabilities to save for qualified disability expenses without the risk of losing their benefits from assistance programs like SSI and Medicaid.
NY ABLE is an ABLE program designed specifically for New York residents. NY ABLE accounts give earnings the ability to grow tax-deferred, and allow savings to be withdrawn tax-free for qualified expenses. Qualified expenses are any expenses related to an eligible individual's disability.
Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm ET
VRS for hearing impaired: 711 or 800-662-1220
For more information about the NY ABLE Savings Program ("NY ABLE"), call 855-5NY-ABLE (855-569-2253), obtain the Disclosure Booklet and Participation Agreement, which includes investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information. Read and consider them carefully before investing.
You should consult your legal, tax and/or other advisor regarding your specific legal, investment or tax situation.
NY ABLE is sponsored by the state of New York and administered by the Comptroller of the State of New York. NY ABLE is intended to be a qualified ABLE program within the meaning of Section 529A. Ascensus Broker Dealer Services, LLC, the Program Manager, and its affiliates, have overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations, including investment advisory, recordkeeping and administrative services.
https://cdn.unite529.com/jcdn/files/NYB/pdfs/programdescription.pdf