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NYPD Still Slapping Street Vendors With Criminal Charges Despite Council Law Requiring Civil Charges
NYPD officers have hit street vendors in Manhattan and Brooklyn with at least seven criminal summonses for vending since a new law went into effect 10 days ago that’s supposed to eliminate such charges. The seven summonses reported to the Street Vendor Project appear to be an early indication that the NYPD hasn’t trained officers […]
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World Cup Economic Bump Is Starting to Look Like a Bust
With less than three months before the first World Cup soccer match at MetLife stadium, hotel bookings for the event are disappointing, suggesting that the predicted $3 billion economic boost will be far less. While Mayor Zohran Mamdani said earlier this month that the Cup has “the potential to be an immense economic driver in […]
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With Power-Guzzling Data Centers on the Way, New York Moves to Control Costs
Data centers demand power. They guzzle water. They may hike energy bills. In Memphis, for example, a gas-powered data center for artificial intelligence increased local air pollution, gulped about 150 homes’ worth of water in a month and could consume as much electricity as 200,000 homes in a year. In the mid-Atlantic region, data center […]
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Mamdani Soft-Launches Community Safety Initiative With Just a Handful of Staffers
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday named a new deputy mayor tasked with creating and then overseeing a new office of community safety. He appointed Renita Francoise, a veteran of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, as his deputy mayor for community safety with the job of crafting the new office, which will be run by a […]
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Amid Budget Crunch, Mamdani Keeps Water Charges That May Lead to Higher Bills
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is continuing a part of his predecessor’s budgeting legacy: using New Yorkers’ water bills as a piggy bank for the city budget. The Mamdani administration is following a pattern set under former Mayor Eric Adams by calling for the collection of $313 million in charges imposed on the Water Board to lease […]
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