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City Officials Warn That Immigration Enforcement May Be Impersonating Housing Inspectors
Housing officials are warning New Yorkers about how to tell a real city inspector from someone who may be impersonating one amid “increased immigration enforcement,” according to a recent PSA-style video from the agency. The video was posted just one day before federal agents claiming to be police investigating a missing child got past Columbia […]
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LISTEN: The Other Guy Was No Joke
Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous […]
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Snow Shovelers Answered the Mayor’s Call, But Payday May Not Arrive Until Spring
New Yorkers flocked to sanitation garages this week to answer the call for emergency snow shovelers. But those winter laborers may not have realized that they likely won’t get paid for that work until spring. Several emergency snow shovelers who worked during January’s big storm have not been paid a month afterwards, they told THE […]
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Mamdani Seeks to Restart Sunnyside Housing Plan, But Needs Billions From Feds
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to revive a massive housing development project over a railyard in Western Queens — with major funding help from the Trump administration. The project, Sunnyside Yard, would consist of 12,000 affordable apartments, with 6,000 of those being in what the administration described as a “Mitchell-Lama-style,” or units created via cooperative and […]
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First ‘Ripoff’ Hearing Packed By Renters Eager to Connect Dots on Lousy Landlords
Leaky ceilings. Persistent pest infestations. Sky-high rents. Complaints to landlords and the city going nowhere. These were just a few of the experiences from the hundreds of New York City tenants who filed into a downtown Brooklyn high school on Thursday to talk to agency officials at the first Rental Ripoff Hearing held by the […]
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