Quick Facts Citi Bike workers fluctuate from 230 in the peak season, to around 160 in the off season. TWU 100 represents over 500 public bike share employees nationwide, in New York, Boston, Chicago and Washington DC. After finalizing the contract, full-time Citi Bike employees received an immediate 10% raise. […]
Month: October 2015
A Bronx-based software testing center defies skeptics
Keith Klain didn’t set out to improve employee diversity in the tech sector, and he wasn’t looking in the South Bronx. His IT consulting firm, Doran Jones, used to call the Financial District home. Now its unassuming glass door faces a hot dog factory and a reliable rumble of […]
Protected: Struggling with Financing, Brooklyn Waste Start-Up Looks North
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New Citywide Computer Science Program Key to a Diverse Tech Economy, Experts Say
In an effort to quell Silicon Alley’s diversity problem, the city unveiled last month a new program that will bring computer science to all public school students by 2025. Computer Science for All will take $81 million of public-private monies to implement over the next decade. But experts believe the […]
Airbnb; The Silver-Lining of Gentrification for Crown Heights Residents?
After the 2012 downturn in the economy Sarah found herself having to move from her apartment in Manhattan to a shared apartment with a roommate in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. When her roommate moved out, Sarah, considered getting a new roommate to help pay the rent, but decided to turn to […]
Have Black Males Been Shut Out of the New York City Recovery?
Jobs are booming in the New York City economic recovery, but not the ones black men have traditionally held. In fiscal year 2012, blacks comprised 22% of the total New York City population but accounted for 32% of government employees. Other ethnicities were either proportionally represented or underrepresented in the […]
Unemployment Rate Among Blacks Remains High Despite New York City Job Boom
Young black men in New York City were hit hardest by the recession and while the overall economic outlook has improved, blacks continue to struggle despite the New York job boom. Overall, the unemployment rate for blacks in the first half of this year was 9.2%, almost 3 percentage points […]
Housing is sure to come to East New York, but will middle-class jobs for current residents follow?
Community leaders in East New York are demanding that the city protect and invest in the neighborhood’s industrial businesses—a source of much-needed middle class employment—as part of their plan to rezone the area. East New York’s Industrial Business Zone (IBZ), which is currently home to 45 industrial and manufacturing […]
Meet the New York Tech Startup that’s Changing Parental Leave
When Mark Egerman’s wife, Alisha, gave birth to their first daughter, Shirin, in late May, he took six weeks off from work to spend time with his new family. Egerman, co-founder of Cover, a New York-based restaurant mobile payment startup, also wanted to show his employees that it was okay […]
Protected: City’s Reforms to Private Waste-Hauling Hit Delays
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