Even as the NYPD targets e-bike riders with criminal tickets for traffic violations, catching immigrant food delivery workers in the dragnet, the City Council is sitting on a bill that would make the apps that dispatch them responsible to provide safety gear and training. Introduced by Manhattan Councilmember Gale Brewer in January 2024, Intro 20 […]

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More than one-third of home test kits sent in for testing by residents to the city’s environmental agency over the past decade had some level of lead — results that reflect many New Yorkers’ continued reliance on pipes containing the potent neurotoxin. And more than 119,000 of the city’s privately owned underground service lines, which […]

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Ten years of tap sample data published by THE CITY shows that 35% of collected drinking water samples contain some lead, and no level of lead in drinking water is safe. New York City has long touted its supply as the “Champagne of Drinking Water” thanks to nearly 2,000 miles of protected reservoirs upstate.  However, […]

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Growing up here, I think I’ve always been aware of the water system but not that consciously. I had seen the Central Park Reservoir, and we had friends up  in Westchester, near Kensico, so there were little bits and pieces. There was a sewer — what turned out to be some kind of sewer plant […]

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Mayor Eric Adams on Friday worked to distance the work of his administration from the former staffers indicted this week on more bribery charges, but stopped short of condemning any of their alleged behavior.  He also insisted that he had nothing to do with  campaign volunteer, former staffer and longtime ally Winnie Greco giving a […]

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