Claudia Irizarry Aponte, Author at THE CITY - NYC News

Trans tennis athlete Cammie Woodman practices in Bed-Stuy Tuesday morning.

Parks

Trans Athlete Claims Amateur Brooklyn Tennis League Kicked Her Out

April 1, 2025, 11:49 a.m.April 1, 2025, 12:11 p.m.

Cammie Woodman says she was booted from a league that uses Parks Department courts after a cisgender woman complained about losing to a trans player.

A pedestrian uses their phone in Manhattan.

Work

Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million, New Study Estimates

March 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 27, 2025, 1:39 p.m.

New Economy Project and other groups urge governor to enforce interest rate limits, as the legislature weighs whether to expand or rein in the fintech industry’s reach.

Union rallied on the steps of City Hall to back raising the minimum wage to over $20 an hour.

Health

Hochul Digs in on Home Care Switch, Despite Labor Ally’s Call for Delay

March 21, 2025, 4:39 p.m.March 21, 2025, 4:39 p.m.

Influential health care union 1199SEIU urged postponing the April 1 start of a single to replace hundreds of companies the governor has called a costly “racket.”

An absentee ballot box sat near the entrance to an early voting site in The Shed at Hudson Yards.

Immigrants

NYC Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote is Unconstitutional, State’s Highest Court Rules

March 20, 2025, 1:54 p.m.March 20, 2025, 4:29 p.m.

The 6-1 decision comes as New York faces growing pressure to roll back immigrants’ rights, including noncitizen driver's licenses.

Campaign 2025

Union Kingmakers Stay on Sidelines in Tumultuous Mayor’s Race

March 19, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 18, 2025, 5:06 p.m.

Private and public-sector labor groups have no clear consensus on who their pick is to lead City Hall. But two things are clear: incumbent Eric Adams is a nonstarter and Cuomo isn’t a safe bet.

Construction workers help dig a trench at a Brooklyn site.

Labor

Comptroller Wins Owed Wages for Underpaid Construction and Building Workers

March 13, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 12, 2025, 8:25 p.m.

Three city subcontractors and a landlord benefiting from a tax break failed to comply with prevailing wage requirements, city Comptroller Brad Lander found. One is now barred from city business.

Campaign 2025

Andrew Cuomo Gets Endorsement From City Government Workers’ Union

March 6, 2025, 4:10 p.m.March 11, 2025, 12:19 p.m.

Teamsters Local 237, whose provide school security and staff public housing, touted the former governor’s record as a builder primed to address the city’s affordability crisis.

A construction worker heads back into a Midtown site.

Worker Safety

Thirty NYC Construction Workers Died in 2023 — the Most in a Decade of Tracking

March 4, 2025, 4:55 a.m.March 4, 2025, 10:28 a.m.

On-the-job deaths climbed for the third year in a row, according to an annual report from a worker-safety group, raising alarms as city and federal watchdogs lose teeth.

Two DC 37's Local 3005, which represents Department of Health and Mental Hygiene workers, showed up in T-shirts with a message for the mayor.

Campaign 2025

‘Horrible,’ ‘Embarrassing,’ ‘Disqualifying’: Municipal Union Workers React to Eric Adams Bailing on Pre-Endorsement Campaign Event

Feb. 27, 2025, 6:56 a.m.Feb. 27, 2025, 9:38 a.m.

The mayor’s no-show at Local DC 37’s candidate forum, which would have been his reelection campaign’s first, upset rank-and-file , including those already riled about his Trump deal.

Immigrant workers whose legal work permits and deportation protections are tied up in state wage theft investigations protested outside the state Department of Labor’s Brooklyn office.

How to New York

How to Deal With Wage Theft in NYC in the Trump Era

Feb. 27, 2025, 4:55 a.m.Feb. 27, 2025, 12:09 p.m.

A conversation about how to go after your boss — while staying safe — with the leader of the Manhattan DA’s Worker Protection Unit, Rachana Pathak.

Claudia Irizarry Aponte

Trans Athlete Claims Amateur Brooklyn Tennis League Kicked Her Out

Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million, New Study Estimates

Hochul Digs in on Home Care Switch, Despite Labor Ally’s Call for Delay

NYC Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote is Unconstitutional, State’s Highest Court Rules

Union Kingmakers Stay on Sidelines in Tumultuous Mayor’s Race

Comptroller Wins Owed Wages for Underpaid Construction and Building Workers

Andrew Cuomo Gets Endorsement From City Government Workers’ Union

Thirty NYC Construction Workers Died in 2023 — the Most in a Decade of Tracking

‘Horrible,’ ‘Embarrassing,’ ‘Disqualifying’: Municipal Union Workers React to Eric Adams Bailing on Pre-Endorsement Campaign Event

How to Deal With Wage Theft in NYC in the Trump Era

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