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Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination
This article is co-reported with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Sign up for its newsletters. In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number […]
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State Says NYCHA Broke Law Removing Toxic Soil Without Required Oversight
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has accused the city’s housing authority of breaking state laws last summer after a contractor disturbed potentially toxic soil at the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village—without informing state officials overseeing a massive cleanup there. In December the conservation department filed two violations against the New […]
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How Unsheltered New Yorkers Face Down the Cold: ‘It’s Survive or Die’
William Galarza awoke to chills that felt like 10 degrees in Union Square Park Tuesday morning, his corner of the public space still cordoned off by the foot of snow that descended Sunday — the most New York City has seen in five years. “I didn’t know the snow was coming that day, so I […]
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New York City Hasn’t Built Artist Housing in a Decade. Should It?
A decade ago, a multimedia artist from The Bronx got a lucky break. She was one of the winners of a lottery — to which over 53,000 people applied — that allowed her to live in one of the 89 affordable apartments in a stately former public school in East Harlem. At the time, she […]
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Mamdani Faults Adams for $12 Billion Budget Gap, Renews Call for Tax Hikes
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday painted a dire picture of the city’s finances, placing the blame for a $12 billion budget gap over two years on former Mayor Eric Adams. The mayor also repeated his call for the state legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and corporations and […]
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