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The mayoral candidate’s signature promise has given tenants hope — and rattled some landlords. Here’s a guide on what a possible Mayor Mamdani can and can’t do.| THE CITY - NYC News
The mayoral candidate’s signature promise has given tenants hope — and rattled some landlords. Here’s a guide on what a possible Mayor Mamdani can and can’t do.| THE CITY - NYC News
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Even with his federal criminal case dismissed over six months ago, Mayor Eric Adams has seen his legal bills continue to climb — leaving a trust he set up under city rules to pay those bills with over $4.5 million in unpaid expenses, according to the latest filings. Adams set up a trust that in […] The post Eric Adams’ Unpaid Legal Bills Tied to Federal Indictment Climb to $4.5 Million appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
A jury on Monday convicted a former state correction officer of second-degree murder — and acquitted two other former officers — in the killing of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man beaten to death last year inside Marcy Correctional Facility upstate. The verdict against David Kingsley, one of three officers on trial, marks the second conviction […] The post Officer Found Guilty in Robert Brooks’ Murder as Calls Grow to Overhaul Prison Oversight appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. More than 150,000 New York City students experienced homelessness last year, setting yet another record high according to new data obtained by the nonprofit Advocates for Children. The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, […] The post 154,000 NYC Students Were Homeless Last School Year, Another Record High...| THE CITY – NYC News
Rep. Dan Goldman is calling on the NYPD to arrest and even charge federal agents working in the city if they break New York’s laws. In a letter sent to NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and first reported here, the Democratic congressmember representing parts of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan points to recent reporting in ProPublica […] The post Dan Goldman Asks NYPD to Bust Feds if They Step out of Line appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
The legendary illustrator talks with LIT NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called the “Vermeer of the Borscht Belt” (the title of the new documentary about him) is […] The post LISTEN: The Weird, Wacky World of Drew Friedman’s Drawings appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
For a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon, the din of midtown traffic was replaced by thousands of marchers whistling, cheering and singing folk songs at a ‘No Kings’ protest down Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. The demonstration, which broadly denounced the Trump administration’s policies, brought out students worried about funding their education, healthcare workers watching […] The post More Than 100,000 New Yorkers Rally at Citywide ‘No Kings’ Protest Against Trump appeared f...| THE CITY – NYC News
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani listened to labor union members Friday at a gathering hosted at building workers headquarters. That union, Local 32BJ SEIU, has been campaigning for Mamdani but against three items on the back of the ballot that would fast-track some housing development approvals. Yet Mamdani has still not yet said, with early […] The post Mamdani Still Mum on Housing Ballot Measures as Council Steps Up Opposition appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
A dozen federal agents in tactical gear arrested several people outside the Row Hotel, a shelter for migrant families, in Midtown Thursday afternoon, sending shockwaves among residents living above. According to video footage and eyewitness accounts, federal agents from the FBI and other agencies, dressed in flak jackets, swarmed the sidewalk at 44th Street, around […] The post Federal Raid Outside Row Hotel Migrant Shelter Rattles Residents appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
The candidates were pressed on issues like Israel and Trump in the first hour, before the debate turned to local issues like housing, safety and education.| THE CITY - NYC News
Train operators and union leaders say passengers taking anger out on transit staff is adding to delays. But MTA officials insist the system is doing better than ever.| THE CITY - NYC News
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“This is retaliation, plain and simple,” said one representative of East Harlem.| THE CITY - NYC News
Investigation focuses on the boiler room, after explosion wrecks 20-story chimney but leaves no injuries.| THE CITY - NYC News
With shrinking undergraduate enrollment and two faculty votes of no confidence in senior leadership, longtime staffers fear the board of Brooklyn's “small college of big dreams” is planning to shut the 166-year-old school down for good.| THE CITY - NYC News
The mayor’s reelection campaign remains under probe by the Campaign Finance Board, which has repeatedly denied requests for millions of dollars amid a straw donor scandal.| THE CITY - NYC News
Judge Dale Ho’s decision to dismiss the charges “with prejudice” means the Trump administration cannot bring them again — removing leverage it sought over the mayor.| THE CITY - NYC News
Citing his federal indictment, the Campaign Finance Board told the mayor that he may be decertified from the public money program.| THE CITY - NYC News
The director of a volunteer soup kitchen at The Parish of Calvary-St. George’s has clashed with its rector over a Covid-era rule banning clients from eating in the church or using its bathrooms.| THE CITY - NYC News
NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell, appointed to the role under Mayor Adams, has been unapologetic about the aggressive new tactic.| THE CITY - NYC News
The department had mulled moving its division handling public school safety from a community bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell but decided against it after THE CITY reported the proposed switch.| THE CITY - NYC News
The department’s school safety division will be taken out of the Community Affairs Bureau and put under the office of the Chief of Department, THE CITY has learned.| THE CITY - NYC News
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.| THE CITY - NYC News
New Yorkers who felt heard by a politician for the first time, including people who aren’t citizens and couldn’t vote, found ways to register their support and spread the word.| THE CITY - NYC News
Adams begged Maria Torres-Springer, Anne Williams-Isom, Meera Joshi and Chauncey Parker to stay, but they announced their resignation following the mayor’s agreement to aid immigration enforcement in exchange for dropping his corruption prosecution.| THE CITY - NYC News
An older brother is detained in Newark while two other siblings remain in New York, “unprotected and traumatized” after arrests at immigration check-in.| THE CITY - NYC News
More than 150 people showed up to a midday hearing to make their feelings known on a plan that would bring a gambling hub to Midtown.| THE CITY - NYC News
Winnie Greco, Eric Adams’ longtime link to growing Asian communities, demanded donations for Gracie Mansion access and pressured a city employee to work in her own home, campaign supporters tell THE CITY.| THE CITY - NYC News
Half of all immigration courthouse arrests earlier this summer were in Manhattan, as the Trump administration has mostly kept ICE enforcement off of the streets, in stark contrast to Los Angeles and other cities.| THE CITY - NYC News
The funding is aimed to implement the statewide cellphone ban. Some schools are getting more than $100,000 for device storage solutions.| THE CITY - NYC News
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s pledge is raising alarms as bankers refuse to finance regulated buildings where costs outstrip income.| THE CITY - NYC News
The mayor, now running as an independent candidate, has repeatedly failed to access the public money due to dubious donations and a lack of transparency.| THE CITY - NYC News
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The Correctional Association of New York on Tuesday unveiled a new dashboard detailing that the suicide rate at state lock ups spiked 108% last year.| THE CITY - NYC News
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The National Weather Service had predicted up to 5 inches of rain in the area and issued flash flood warnings for all five boroughs.| THE CITY - NYC News
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Pantries providing free groceries to New Yorkers in need are increasingly relying on unwanted excess from wholesalers at the Hunts Point Produce Market.| THE CITY - NYC News
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