Albany, NY – Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, member of the Assembly Transportation Committee, will attend the Committee’s public hearing on intoxicated and impaired driving. Several people will testify on the topic, including the need to lower the...

Brooklyn, NY – As students and teachers return to classrooms and begin another school year, they are also preparing to conduct 4 state-mandated lockdown drills over the next year: one of the highest lockdown drill mandates in the country. These drills...

BROOKLYN, NY – Governor Kathy Hochul signed a crucial bill to limit additional damage sustained to the already-crumbling triple cantilever on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), utilizing state-of-the-art technology to weigh and fine illegally overweight...

Brooklyn, NY – Longtime residents of 63 Tiffany Place, one of the last affordable housing buildings in Cobble Hill, face potential eviction as the property’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) regulatory agreement expires on December 31, 2023....

Albany, NY - Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon will introduce a new bill to require the New York State Education Department to survey New York’s teacher education programs to identify the programs that are using evidenced-based practices consistent with...

Albany, NY – Senator Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon announced the passage of their bill (S6246/A6225) to enable the implementation of the first-in-the-nation Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) program to electronically ticket illegally overweight...

Albany, NY – On May 17th, 2023, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon and her colleagues Senators Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Robert Jackson, and Zellnor Myrie and Assemblymembers Robert Carroll and Harvey Epstein hosted the 8th Annual Dyslexia Awareness Day: Advocating...

Albany, NY – Today, State Senator Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill which would make improvements to the state-wide lockdown drill mandate by decreasing the mandated frequency of drills and ensuring that these lockdown...

Brooklyn, NY– NYC DOT has informed local elected officials that the BQE Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) project is significantly delayed. WIM is a first-in-the-nation automatic enforcement mechanism to fine illegally overweight trucks on the dangerously deteriorating...

Brooklyn, NY - On December 13, 2022 and December 15, 2022 the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) released design concepts for the 1.5-mile stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street. In response,...