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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rikers? We Asked 4 Experts for Their Ideas
Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same dysfunction that prompted a court’s intervention nearly a decade ago. “The reform effort continues to progress at a glacial pace,” said monitor Steve Martin, citing entrenched resistance and “pervasive poor practices.” A new team — Nicholas […]
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Would Raising Taxes on the Richest New Yorkers Drive Them Away?
New York imposes among the highest taxes in the country, and that’s especially true for city dwellers, who are hit by additional local taxes. And those taxes may climb further, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul continue to feud over whether to raise taxes and how. Mamdani’s preference is to raise income taxes […]
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Gateway Work Still Paused as Hardhats and Pols Beg Trump Admin for Full Funds
On a typical Tuesday morning, hardhats would have been at work on the Manhattan gateway to the country’s largest infrastructure project — and not caught in the middle of a political fight between President Donald Trump and New York and New Jersey. “Pouring concrete, digging, excavating, a little of everything,” said Guido Rivieccio, 49, of […]
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Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be able to appoint six members to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him a majority of appointees to deliver his signature campaign proposal of a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments. Alex Armlovich, a member of the board who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to a four-year term that runs through […]
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Mamdani Threatens Blanket Property Tax Hike as ‘Last Resort’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented a “last resort” option of raising the property tax rate to close an estimated $5.4 billion budget gap, as Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to resist raising taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations. “We remain firmly in a budget crisis. It is a crisis that we can and will overcome — […]
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