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City To Renew Rikers Phone Deal Amid AI Surveillance Concerns
The city’s Correction Department is set to renew a multimillion-dollar contract with a prison telecom giant that’s bragged of using recordings of detainees’ private phone calls to train its artificial intelligence model. The Mamdani administration plans to pay Securus Technologies up to $23 million over five years for phone service used by roughly 7,000 people […]
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Paladino Settles With Council Over Anti-Muslim Tweets
Councilmember Vickie Paladino and the City Council settled their ethics feud over her anti-Muslim social media posts, with the Queens Republican agreeing to delete her tweets and remove any mention of her job on her personal accounts. The charges filed March 2 by the Council’s ethics committee were permanently withdrawn, according to a court filing. […]
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LISTEN: Albany’s Supersized ‘Big Ugly’ Is Ridiculously Late
Will New York State ever pass the budget that was due more than a month ago? And how is New York City supposed to work out its own budget, which it’s legally required to balance and pass by the end of June, without knowing how much money the state is providing? Podcast hosts Christina Greer, Katie […]
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Who Will Represent Mamdani at the MTA? He Has Less Than a Month to Decide.
As Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes a transit agenda centered on speeding the country’s slowest buses, he has less than a month to fill a pair of longstanding vacancies on the MTA board. The mayor has just four seats on the panel that sets fares, operating and capital budgets for a regional transportation authority that is […]
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Landlords in Fatal Fire Racked Up More Than 1,000 Violations Across NYC
Three days before a fatal fire May 4th at 207 Dyckman St. in Inwood, housing inspectors appeared at the six-story walkup and issued a dozen code violations. One of those was for a non-functioning self-closing apartment entry door that was deemed “immediately hazardous.” After the blaze was put out, firefighters discovered severe fire damage in […]
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