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The Black, Latino and Asian (BLA) Caucus is a caucus of members of the New York City Council. [1] The Caucus's stated purpose is to "make sure issues of particular concern to the New York City's Black, Latino, and Asian communities through the legislative, oversight, and budgetary powers of the City Council."
The New York City Council is allocating $1.5 million in funding to support the work of The Bridge Project, a nonprofit that operates a guaranteed income program for expecting mothers. The funding ...
The district holds a number of distinctions. It is by far the most Republican-leaning Council district in the city; it is the only Council district to have more registered Republicans than Democrats; and, at 84% white, it is the city's whitest and most politically conservative Council district.
A Critical Review of the Rise of Puerto Rican Political Families in New York City, NiLP Latino Policy iReport (July 29, 2012); Latinos and NYC Council Districting, 2012: An Introduction (New York: National Institute for Latino Policy, March 2012); and NYC Council Discretionary Funding of Latino Organizations, Fiscal Year 2013, NiLP Latino ...
Under New York City law, the City Council Speaker has authority over the yearly City Council funds, worth almost $400 million (in 2012), to distribute among 51 members. [17] This discretionary funding system, sometimes called the "slush fund", has been criticized, with some councilmembers alleging Quinn to have cut funding to their districts as ...
Cuban Americans (Spanish: cubanoestadounidenses [3] or cubanoamericanos [4]) are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba.As of 2025, Cuban Americans were the fourth largest Hispanic and Latino American group in the United States after Mexican Americans, Stateside Puerto Ricans and Salvadoran Americans.
A bank with Cuban American roots in Miami has recently started handling the bank accounts for the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Cuban mission at the United Nations in New York.
As of 2014, New York City hosted 300,000 employees in the tech sector. [46] [47] The technology sector has been claiming a greater share of New York City's economy since 2010. [48] The biotechnology sector is also growing in New York City, driven by the city's strength in academic scientific research and public and commercial financial support.