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LISTEN: A Vision for NYC’s Deliveristas and a Battery-Powered Future
“I bought myself an electric bike to take my kids to the beach and started charging it outside after seeing stats on how many battery fires there were. I looked at other countries that are doing battery-swap networks and I said, ‘We should do this in New York… My plan, if I can be this […]
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Packed Crowd Cheers as Judge Releases Advocate’s Aunt in High-Stakes Immigration Hearing
A throng of supporters and family members cheered the release of home-health aide Aissatou Diallo, who was set free by a federal judge after a charged habeas corpus hearing Friday morning. ICE agents had detained the aunt of Adama Bah, founder of the Harlem based nonprofit Afrikana, from a line to board a plane at […]
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NYC Deportations Ramped Up While Immigration Arrests Slowed, Latest Data Shows
Immigration arrests in New York City have slowed since peaking in the summer months while deportations increased, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data available through mid-October released Monday and analyzed by THE CITY. Since ICE last released data covering immigration arrests through late July, the agency arrested 858 people in streets, courts and homes […]
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Adams’ Planners Opened the Door for 130K New Apartments. Will Mamdani Deliver Them?
Exactly one year after the passage of its hard-fought City of Yes revamp of the city’s land use rules, the Adams administration is taking a victory lap, trumpeting the 130,000 housing units that could potentially be built because of those changes and five major neighborhood rezonings it enacted in its four years in office. But […]
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Mamdani Vows to Sweep Out Crackdowns on Homeless Camps
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he will not continue sweeps of homeless encampments — which city data shows have not yielded any permanent or supportive-housing referrals in more than a year. Advocates slept outside City Hall on Wednesday night to protest the crackdowns, which Mayor Eric Adams began at the start of his administration. Asked […]
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