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In 1980, a movie narrated by a sociologist once described as Jimmy Stewart’s urban planner cousin, and full of surveillance footage of the city’s public spaces, delivered perhaps the richest and wisest look ever made at how New Yorkers use the city’s public spaces. Municipal Art Society president Keri Butler joins LIT NYC hosts Harry […]

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In his twilight days at City Hall, Mayor Eric Adams has doubled down on attacking his corruption indictment, dismissing it as “lawfare” brought by a Biden administration angry at his criticism of policies he blamed for triggering a flood of migrants to New York City. He has repeated his mantra that the media unfairly focused […]

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Where Eric Adams stands in the pantheon of New York City mayors will be for historians to decide, but in a single respect he joins only one other mayor, long forgotten: A. Oakey Hall. Hall was the last New York City mayor indicted while in office , charged in 1871 with neglect of his official […]

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Use of force by members of the NYPD surged 20% last year to 11,746 incidents — a record high since the department began detailed record-keeping on the issue in 2016, according to a police department report quietly posted online in recent days.  Roughly half the incidents of force occurred in response to crimes or violations […]

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