[[{“fid”:”470″,”view_mode”:”full”,”type”:”media”,”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“height”:”682″,”width”:”1024″,”style”:”width: 380px; height: 253px; float: left;”,”title”:”Hurricane Sandy Town Hall”,”class”:”media-element file-full”}}]]                 Clasping the hands that have bailed out bucket after bucket of water from basements, that have had to throw out photos of parents and grandparents and children, that have been lent to neighbors and strangers alike, South […]

[[{“fid”:”468″,”view_mode”:”full”,”type”:”media”,”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“height”:”287″,”width”:”430″,”title”:”Sandy THM Courier”,”class”:”media-element file-full”}}]] Carl Teresa drained his retirement savings to pay for Sandy home damages and is tired of getting the runaround from city and state agencies, he said. Eight months after the storm, south Queens is still not whole, and Teresa said he is just one of many still struggling. Homeowners gathered at […]

[[{“fid”:”467″,”view_mode”:”full”,”type”:”media”,”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“height”:”91″,”width”:”364″,”style”:”width: 364px; height: 91px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 2px;”,”title”:”1010 Wins Queens TH”,”class”:”media-element file-full”}}]] Click on the image above to listen to Congressman Jeffries' interview with Gene Michaels on 1010WINS.    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Superstorm Sandy struck the Tri-State Area eight months ago Sunday, and residents of Howard Beach, Queens have been suffering all the […]

Mayor Bloomberg’s comment about stop-and-frisk on his weekly radio show sparked major backlash from community leaders and politicians — the outrage stemming from hundreds of thousands of stops each year that result in arrests only about 10% of the time. About 90% of those stopped are minority males. Now Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is calling for […]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg answered his critics on Sunday with a defiant defense of his comments that the New York Police Department doesn't stop minorities often enough based on murder suspect descriptions. “The numbers are the numbers, and the numbers clearly show that the stops are generally proportionate with suspects' descriptions and for years now critics […]

An embattled Mayor Bloomberg stood by his controversial comments on the NYPD’s stop and frisk policy Sunday — and unloaded on his critics. “The numbers don’t lie,” Bloomberg said, defending Friday’s remark that “we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.” His office noted that 87% of people stopped under the policy in […]

[[{“fid”:”464″,”view_mode”:”full”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“style”:”width: 240px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 2px; float: left; height: 255px;”,”title”:”Stop and Frisk PC 7.1.13″,”class”:”media-element file-full”},”link_text”:null}]]New York, NY – Yesterday, in response to racially charged comments by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries called for the appointment of a federal monitor to oversee the New York Police Department (NYPD) and its overly aggressive […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington, civil and voting rights groups were blunt in describing their reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. “A disaster!” one said. “Grave disappointment,” said another. Chanelle Hardy heads the National Urban League’s Policy Institute. She says the court, by invalidating […]

WASHINGTON – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement after the Supreme Court of the United States struck a portion of the Voting Rights Act in the landmark case, Shelby County v. Holder: “It is disheartening that the Supreme Court of the United States has taken such an unjust step backwards by deeming parts of […]

On Sunday, June 23, 2013, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries discussed pending immigration bills that are under review in the House Judiciary committee and collaboration with the Senate immigration bill on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki.”  He also discussed pending Supreme Court decisions on same-sex  marriage and section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  The full interview […]