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The former congressman and current congressman for Norwood, Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Ritchie Torres (NY-15), joined Montefiore president and CEO, Dr. Philip Ozuah, at Bedford Park’s P.S. 8 Isaac Varian School to confirm approval of $3.35 million in federal funding for Montefiore’s School Health Program (MSHP) on Wednesday, April 13. The program currently provides 42,000 students with access to doctors, dentists, and therapists at 33 locations and 99 schools that offer the program, across The Bronx and Westchester counties.
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York’s 13th Congressional district visited CUIMC last week to present federal funding he secured for the Columbia COVID-19 Northern Manhattan Community Mental Wellness Corps, a new initiative to address mental health disparities in Northern Manhattan and parts of the Bronx.
The long-promised project to extend the Second Ave. subway to Harlem will get $400 million in the annual budget President Biden is set to propose Monday, according to New York Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
After years of delays, the money will go to engineering and construction for Q train stops up to 125th St., the pair said.
Shovels will “hopefully” be in the ground next year, according to a Schumer spokesman.
Millions of dollars are coming to organizations, programs, and schools in Washington Heights after Rep. Adriano Espaillat secured $11.5 million in funding for Upper Manhattan's 13th Congressional District.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Millions of dollars are coming to organizations, programs, and schools in Washington Heights after Rep. Adriano Espaillat secured $11.5 million in funding for Upper Manhattan's 13th Congressional District.
The funding from the congressman is broken up into different areas of Harlem, Washington Heights and the Bronx.
For Washington Heights, the money will go to supporting a community kitchen, a food pantry, a mental wellness corps from Columbia University, and a building within Yeshiva University.
Following many years of organizing within the United States, Kosovar survivors of conflict-related sexual violence that occurred during the 1998 to 1999 Kosovo War are now pressing U.S. President Joe Biden to seek redress and accountability from the government of Serbia.
Aunque reconocen que el presidente asumió el cargo durante una crisis de salud a la que ahora se suma la invasión a Ucrania, en una conversación con Noticias Telemundo, los representantes Lou Correa, Chuy García y Adriano Espaillat dijeron que al Gobierno de Biden le "falta mucho" en materia migratoria.
For years, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo landed at or near the top of the New York City Power 100 list, thanks to the way he maximized his leverage over the city – and consistently outplayed his longtime foil, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.
On this week's Power & Politics, News 12's Kurt Semder talks with Congressman Adriano Espaillat about the response to the rise in gun violence in the area.
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat took the House floor on Tuesday to led a moment of silence for two New York Police Department officers who were killed in the line of duty during a reported domestic violence incident in Harlem last month.