News from Senator Gustavo Rivera

 

SENATOR RIVERA IN ALBANY THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE PASSES THE ONE HOUSE BUDGET RESOLUTION

This week, the Senate Democratic Majority advanced the One House Resolution which is the Senate’s response to the Governor’s proposed budget. 

Senator Rivera was proud that many of his priorities in this proposal including:

• Stopping cuts to healthcare providers and the Medicaid program: 
• $1.9 billion for Financially Distressed Hospitals and Safety Net Hospitals, $600 million more than the Executive proposal.
• $1.6 billion to increase Medicaid rates across the board, for hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living programs, and hospice.
• Restores cuts to the Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program (HPNAP) and Nourish NY funding for emergency food programs and further increases that funding to $150M for both programs.
• 5% increase for reimbursement rates for Early Intervention providers as well as the 3% across the board Medicaid increase. 
• Restored drastic cuts to public education and rejected all Executive changes to Foundation Aid, including the elimination of “hold harmless.” 
• Tenant protections that align with the core principles of Good Cause Eviction, $250 Million for the Housing Access Voucher Program, and $40 million for the Homeowner Protection Program.

Senator Rivera spoke on the Senate floor about the One House Resolution's inclusion of his #Coverage4All bill, which is one of his top priorities for this session.

SENATOR RIVERA'S HEALTH COMMITTEE PASSES 10 BILLS

This week, the New York State Senate Health Committee passed 10 bills. Four of these bills were sponsored by Senator Rivera, including his bill to provide incidental nursing services to residents of certain licensed adult care facilities in order to avoid unnecessary transfers to hospitals and nursing homes.

SENATOR RIVERA INTRODUCES BILL TO FIGHT AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS

Senator Rivera's Livable New York Act, which aims to fight back against the climate crisis while providing additional affordable housing and employment opportunities. Senator Rivera's bill would pay up to $50,000 in expenses per unit of housing to transition a building fully off of fossil fuels. Those funds are contingent on high-road labor practices, such as project labor agreements, family-supporting jobs, and union jobs. They would also maximize employment opportunities for formerly-incarcerated residents.

"We find ourselves in a crisis moment. And I think we all know that. Whether it’s the lack of affordable housing. Whether it’s the climate crisis that just puts pressure on our infrastructure. Whether it’s how some of that climate crisis actually has an impact on migration which then impacts our city. Whether it’s the lack of good opportunities to have jobs like good union jobs that protect workers. All of those things are things that are real in our lives." - State Senator Gustavo Rivera

FRIDAY 3/29: SENATOR RIVERA HOSTS FREE HOUSING & IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE WITH NMIC

SATURDAY 3/30: SENATOR RIVERA INVITES YOU TO THE ANNUAL WILLIAMSBRIDGE OVAL SPRING EGG HUNT!

Join us on Saturday March 30th from 11:00am to 2:00pm at the Williamsbridge Oval Recreation Center for games, arts and crafts, entertainment, and community-building. Families and children are invited!

SUMMER RISING PROGRAMS APPLICATIONS OPEN NOW

State Senator Gustavo Rivera  

2432 Grand Concourse Suite 506, Bronx, NY 10458

The East Bronx History Forum Meeting Tuesday, March 19th 7:30 PM in Bartus Hall at the First Lutheran Church located at 3075 Baisley Avenue.

 

The East Bronx History Forum is pleased to announce it will be holding its 183rd meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19th in Bartus Hall at the First Lutheran Church located at 3075 Baisley Avenue.

Our speaker this month will be Dorothy Poggi who will discuss the history of the neighborhood of Ferry Point Park.

Ferry Point Park gets its name from an old ferry system that ran from Westchester Square, stopped at the Unionport dock, the Ferris dock, present-day Ferry Point area and eventually on to Whitestone Landing in Queens. Ferry Point itself was part of the Throgmorton family in 1642 and passed to another notable family being the Ferris family in 1750. Ferry Point was a corruption of the name Ferris which was similar in sound to the true name of the community Ferris Point. During the time the Ferris family owned it from 1750 to 1900, it was mostly farmland. Numerous other Bronx families owned it after 1900 until the Catholic Church which had its House of the Good Shepherd and eventually sold out to the city in 1937. Dorothy Poggi, a life-long resident of Ferry Point Park is the founder and President of Friends of Ferry Point Park and founder and President of Ferry Point Community Advocates. Some of the topics she will explore include the burial grounds of local Native Americans to the possible threat of a gambling casino, to its days as farmland and now to an Industrial Park. Horse and carriage were a popular mode of transportation in the late 19th century and Ferry Point can now boast of having the largest cloverleaf of highways in the city.

As always, the EBHF meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit BronxNYC.com, as well as our Facebook and Instagram pages.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Dorothy A. Krynicki

Secretary, East Bronx History Forum