A lawsuit alleging that New York City’s property tax system unfairly burdens low-income residents was dismissed by a high court a few years ago, but it now has new life. Tax Equity Now New York, or TENNY, brought the suit in 2017 against the city and the state, claiming NYC’s property tax system is inequitable, opaque, and forces some people to pay an uneven share of the state’s tax revenues.
Pat Simone, 90, always perks up when Sister Marie Dominique walks into her room at Rosary Hill Home because she knows the young nun will bring a smile to her face with a kind word, a warm gesture, or by simply wearing a grin.
In the house where Servant of God Dorothy Day lived and died, members of the Catholic Worker movement she co-founded in the 1930s are carrying on her legacy by operating a soup kitchen to feed nutritious meals to the downtrodden and hungry.
The implementation of the controversial congestion pricing program in New York City has been indefinitely postponed, and will not launch on June 30 as originally planned. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the timing to implement the proposal was not right, because Manhattan businesses have not fully recovered from the pandemic.
The Diocese of Buffalo announced May 28 that it will merge about one third of its 160 parishes to consolidate dwindling resources as it faces declining Mass attendances, aging congregations, a priest shortage, and financial challenges from filing bankruptcy four years ago.
My beloved New York Mets, with whom I have so much optimism in March and April, have faded into oblivion, while the crosstown rival New York Yankees are appearing as strong as ever.
An apparently antisemitic attack occurred outside a Brooklyn Jewish school on Wednesday, where a man attempted to run over Orthodox students and a rabbi while allegedly shouting, “I’m gonna kill all the Jews,” sources told The New York Post.
A group of pro-life pregnancy centers has filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James accusing her of censorship and religious discrimination.
While expressing disappointment that a New York State Court of Appeals has upheld a state mandate that requires employers to cover abortion in their employee health insurance plans, the New York State Catholic Conference is confident an appeal to the Supreme Court will be successful.
Slovak Catholics at one New York City parish are “shocked” by an assassination attempt on Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, the pastor told OSV News.
