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Eats P11 Care P3 Drive P9 DECEMBER 11 - DECEMBER 17, 2019 • VOL. 20 • No. 49 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS • INWOOD • HARLEM • EAST HARLEM NORTHERN MANHATTAN’S BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER EL PERIODICO BILINGUE DEL NORTE DE MANHATTAN NOW EVERY WEDNESDAY TODOS LOS MIERCOLES Syllables and Solace p4 Sílabas y consuelo p4 Drive p9 Eats p 11 Care p3 Now’sto Choose or Renew Yourthe Coverage Time Through the NY State of Health Marketplace! Fidelis Care’s Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) offer some of the lowest monthly premiums available! New in 2020 for Fidelis Care QHPs: Dental and vision coverage options Telemedicine doctor visits with $0 copay Enrollment Timeframes: (for those who are eligible) November 1, 2019 - December 15, 2019 For individual coverage beginning January 1, 2020 in Qualified Health Plans (QHP) All Year Long In New York State-sponsored Child Health Plus, Essential Plan, and Medicaid programs Local, personalized service from your Fidelis Care team. 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Ayala spoke out on Mon., Dec. 9th at City Hall and was joined by Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Levine together with home-based daycare providers for a press conference to address concerns that providers – such as the one Ayala relied upon – are under threat since the city’s rollout of Pre-K for All and 3-K for All. The providers, who offer daycare in their apartments and homes to thousands of New York City children, said that many families have left them The providers offer daycare in their apartments and for free preschool in public school. homes to thousands of New York City children. Tiffany Díaz, who runs a family daycare center in the Bronx, said it resources to adapt their Espaillat. “In addition to that, they deal with is becoming more difficult for small apartments and living moms and dads and become integral parts of childcare businesses to survive. spaces to meet city codes. the families.” “I’m barely staying above water,” she He remarked that the providers function Díaz said that the rates for care have not remarked. as educators, caregivers, and business increased, making it difficult to pay for staff Espaillat, who organized the press operators. and help community members earn a living “Without [providers], conference, said the providers, who are “They teach young children the colors and wage. thousands of families will not largely women of color, operate largely how to go potty, and the alphabet, but they’re “Provider pay is limited by the number be able to go to work,” said in neighborhoods where there is a lack of also nurses because when the children get Congressman Adriano Espaillat. See PROVIDERS p13 traditional daycare centers and have to expend sick, they have to take care of them,” said El pánico de los proveedores Por Gregg McQueen tradicionales y tienen que gastar recursos para adaptar sus apartamentos y espacios uede que se haya ido hoy, pero su de vida para cumplir con los códigos de la cuidado sigue vivo. ciudad. P Comentó que los proveedores funcionan Diana Ayala, madre de cuatro hijos, como educadores, cuidadores y operadores sabía a dónde acudir cuando necesitaba de negocios. ayuda mientras volvía a trabajar. “Enseñan a los niños pequeños los “Si no fuera por una mujer en la calle colores, a ir al baño y el alfabeto, pero 106, que ya no está con nosotros, no también son enfermeras porque cuando los habría podido hacer mi trabajo”, recordó niños se enferman, tienen que cuidarlos”, Ayala. “Son mujeres como estas, mujeres dijo Espaillat. “Además de eso, tratan con de color, las que se sacrifican todos los mamás y papás y se convierten en parte días”. integral de las familias”. “Necesitaba confiar en servicios de Díaz dijo que las tarifas de cuidado no guardería buenos y de calidad para mis han aumentado, lo que dificulta el pago hijos”, dijo la concejala. del personal y ayudar a los miembros de la “No están en esto para hacerte ricos”, dijo Y no está sola. “Apenas salgo a flote”, dijo Tiffany Díaz. comunidad a ganar un salario digno. el concejal Mark Levine a los proveedores. Ayala habló el lunes 9 de diciembre en que muchas familias los han dejado por el “El pago de los proveedores está limitado el Ayuntamiento y se unió al congresista preescolar gratuito en las escuelas públicas. por la cantidad de niños que pueden cualquier aspecto de los negocios y del Adriano Espaillat, los concejales Ydanis Tiffany Díaz, quien dirige una guardería atender y la tarifa actual del mercado. Los cuidado de los niños”, dijo Gladys Jones, Rodríguez y Mark Levine junto con familiar en el Bronx, dijo que es cada vez subsidios nunca han reflejado el verdadero colega de cuidado infantil de Staten Island. proveedores de guarderías en el hogar más difícil para los pequeños negocios de costo del cuidado”, argumentó Díaz, Explicó que el sistema de cuidado para una conferencia de prensa para cuidado infantil sobrevivir. señalando que los proveedores también infantil del estado de Nueva York está en abordar las preocupaciones de los “Apenas me mantengo a flote”, comentó. deben pagar seguro de responsabilidad “una crisis”, y señaló que los proveedores proveedores, como aquel del cual Ayala Espaillat, quien organizó la conferencia civil, compensación del trabajador e reciben un subsidio estatal por brindar dependió, quienes están bajo amenaza de prensa, dijo que los impuestos. atención, pero comentó que es “demasiado desde el lanzamiento de la ciudad de proveedores, en su “Nuestros entornos bajo para retener al personal de calidad y Pre-K para Todos y 3-K para Todos. mayoría mujeres de color, están muy regulados un ambiente de calidad”. Los proveedores, que ofrecen guardería operan principalmente con recursos “Por cada dos bebés, tengo que contratar en sus apartamentos y hogares a miles de en vecindarios donde inadecuados y son a alguien. No puedo pagarlo”, dijo. niños de la ciudad de Nueva York, dijeron faltan las guarderías sujetos a todas las agencias que rigen Vea PROVEEDORES p13 DECEMBER 11, 2019 • MANHATTAN TIMES • www.manhattantimesnews.com 3 Syllables and Solace ThriveNYC partners with NYPL to offer mental health programming By Gregg McQueen schizophrenic, has a busy agenda of his own. “Lowboy,” as Will is known given his t’s early in the morning, and fondness for riding the subway, has to save Will Heller is alone on an the world from climate change and get to his I girlfriend Emily. uptown B train. It’s clearly complicated. The plot of the acclaimed novel Lowboy The sixteen-year-old has just fled a mental by John Wray unfolds over 400 pages, but he hospital and is being pursued by NYPD selected only a few to read aloud during an Detective Ali Lateef – and his mother. appearance this past Thurs., Dec. 5th at the And Will, who is a diagnosed paranoid Bronx Library Center. Beyond reaching out to “A library is a sanctuary,” said his readers in the borough, First Lady Chirlane McCray. Wray and his book are The initiative was announced with a press are essential to our communities,” she part of a new citywide conference at the Bronx Library Center. stated. collaboration intended to First Lady Chirlane McCray, who has “It’s a natural fit and ThriveNYC has been connect more New Yorkers spearheaded the city’s ThriveNYC program, evolving and creating partners as we go,” with mental health services recalled how she sought refuge at the public said Susan Herman, Director of the Mayor’s – right in their local library. library in her youth. Office of ThriveNYC. Known as “Spaces to “When I was bullied in school and felt Initially, the Spaces to Thrive program Thrive,” the program, isolated, I turned to the library,” said McCray, will launch in 13 branches across the city, a partnership between who has openly discussed her own struggles including Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd the Mayor’s Office of with mental health. “A library is a sanctuary.” Street, Bronx Library Center, Pelham Bay ThriveNYC and New York McCray said it was a logical match to pair Library, Soundview Library, Westchester Public Library (NYPL), NYPL with ThriveNYC, as the mental health Square Library in the Bronx, and Hamilton will provide library visitors program seeks to “meet people where they Grange Library, and Harry Belafonte-115th with onsite mental health are.” Street Library in Northern Manhattan. Mental health information will workshops and literature “It makes so much sense to highlight mental be made available in libraries. focused on mental health. health inside these neighborhood assets that See HEALTH p17 4 DECEMBER 11, 2019 • MANHATTAN TIMES • www.manhattantimesnews.com Victorian Party The Morris-Jumel Mansion welcomes Party like it’s 1899. visitors on Sat., Dec. 14th at 12:00 p.m.
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