Citing attacks from the Trump administration and overcrowding on Rikers Island, advocates for transgender people behind bars are pushing local lawmakers to codify how transgender detainees are identified and housed in gender-aligned units.  In recent months, the White House has tried to force the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to move transgender women back into […]

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CUNY public safety officers and the NYPD quickly quashed an attempt by students to establish a ‘Liberated Zone’ on the quad of City College of New York on Thursday afternoon. A group of several dozen pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus announced they’d set up a “liberated zone” around 2 p.m. but were swiftly confronted by […]

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THE CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. Dr. Denis Nash was at an HIV conference in San Francisco last month when rumors began to swirl that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was canceling research grants awarded to universities across the country to study vaccines or vaccine […]

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Renting vacated, affordable apartments through the city’s housing lottery is about to get easier — but you’ll have to be fast to nab one. For the next year, the city’s housing department will waive bureaucratic rules on how landlords have to get new tenants into empty affordable-housing units.  Starting May 1 through April 30, 2026, […]

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This story was published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent, investigative news site covering New York state and city politics. Sign up for their newsletter here. As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang members and expels them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal […]

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