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Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants
The Trump administration has cancelled more than $1.3 million in federal emergency grants awarded to a Brooklyn food pantry to feed migrants, after advising the nonprofit it was suspected of violating U.S. law by serving food to “illegal aliens.” The move leaves the Campaign Against Hunger — which each year serves 17 million meals to […]
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Trump-Ordered Halt to Wind Power Construction Casts Shadow on Offshore Project
New York’s first major offshore wind project suspended construction on Thursday in response to a stop-work order issued by the Trump administration — also potentially altering the future course of a city-owned Brooklyn port used as home base to support the project. Empire Wind 1, developed by the Norwegian company Equinor, had just started work […]
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Who’s Spending Big Money in NYC’s Local Elections? Here’s How to Find Out
We’ve told you about how much money local campaigns have brought in for the 2025 race. Especially for mayor, candidates have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in their effort to become the next boss of City Hall. But there’s a lot more money being spent on local elections than that. Ostensibly separate from […]
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Migrants in City Shelters Make Tough Decisions as Feds Warn: ‘It Is Time for You to Leave’
A Colombian mother of a ninth grader had planned to move her family out of their Brooklyn migrant shelter at the end of the school year. That was before she got a menacing email from Customs and Border Patrol last week telling her she had seven days to leave the country. “A fear enters you,” […]
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Pressure Grows on Adams to Budget for Trump Funding Cuts and Recession
Mayor Eric Adams is coming under intense pressure to increase the city’s reserve funds as the threat grows of both big cuts to federal aid and an economic downturn that would reduce tax revenues. City Comptroller Brad Lander Wednesday called for the mayor to set aside about $1 billion in case of a recession and […]
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