[EDINVA]

How is it costing the city? “STRIVE Harlem” sounds like an independent company he founded?

[DannyTN]

"How is it costing the city? “STRIVE Harlem” sounds like an independent company he founded?"

You're right. I scanned it and saw the words "New York City" and jumped to a bad conclusion. It is a private firm. That's better.

[Prospero]

Where does federal discrimination law supersede the 1st amendment. If you can't say "f*ck," you can't say "f*ck the government," as that subversive Abbie Hoffman used to say.

And "STRIVE Harlem" sounds like an NGO, probably one of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, funded by state and/or federal government.

When these were snaked out in North Carolina people found out these kinds of little launderettes were costing the taxpayers nearly a billion every year.

When some legislators claimed they were fire departments, and such, someone finally got a list. Top of that list was a PO Box called "101 Black Men of Charlotte."

To this day, no one knows what that NGO was supposed to be.