These New Yorkers are among the last of a vanishing breed who swear by the swipe or the dip of a MetroCard. With the MTA in a transition to full OMNY tap-and-go technology, transit officials said Monday that one-third of last month’s 146 million subway and bus riders remain MetroCard loyalists — even with sales […]

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This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project,  a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on  Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. The guards carried Robert Brooks into the infirmary face down, holding him by his cuffed hands and ankles. Once inside a private exam room at Marcy Correctional Facility, near Syracuse, […]

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Nonprofit organizations working under city contracts will soon be able to receive up to half of their payments upfront, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday — but service providers say it’s just one of many reforms needed to fix a notoriously problematic billing system. Adams said the move to give higher advance payments, estimated to be […]

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A day after the Trump administration issued another executive order threatening so-called “sanctuary cities” like New York with financial penalties and their elected officials with criminal charges, city Comptroller Brad Lander called on Mayor Eric Adams to allow an independent party to handle all matters related to how and when to defend the city’s sanctuary […]

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New York’s major municipal employee unions sued the city government Monday, exploding into the open a long-simmering conflict between them and the administration of Mayor Eric Adams over which side is responsible for billions of dollars in pledged health care savings that have failed to materialize. The Municipal Labor Committee filed the case in Manhattan […]

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