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Hochul Refuses NYC Tax Move in Budget Showdown
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday shot down a request by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin to change a tax credit to help fill a $5.4 billion city budget deficit. Mamdani and Menin had asked state lawmakers to authorize changes to the pass-through entity tax, or PTET, which allows some business people […]
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How the NYPD Slow-Walked and Shot Down Gang Database Reforms
At a recent press conference announcing a sweeping takedown of rival gangs notorious for their wild shootouts across public housing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch made a point of praising the NYPD’s controversial gang database. “Yes we certainly did use the criminal group database as part of this investigation,” Tisch said, using the […]
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LISTEN: All the Budgets Are Blending Together
Which came first, the state budget or the city’s spending plan? As the Mamdani administration pushes for new taxes and more money from Albany the FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more, including how sports and politics are getting mushed together first between the NBA Playoffs and the coming “Trump Station,” and between […]
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NYC Yanks AI-Themed High School and Shelves Plans To Close UWS Middle Schools
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In a major reversal, New York City schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is withdrawing controversial proposals to open the city’s first artificial intelligence-focused high school, close two middle schools, and relocate another. The plan to open Next Generation Technology High School as a selective school in downtown […]
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Colin Jost and Pete Davidson Can Offload Their Boondoggle Ferry by Sinking It, Artificial Reef Experts Say
Within the first minute of SNL’s viral spoof of the Barbie movie’s song “I’m Just Ken,” a bleached and toned Pete Davidson softly croons about his purchase of a 277-foot Staten Island Ferry: “When I’m high, I do things like call up Colin Jost and say, ‘Homey, we should buy a boat.’” It is one […]
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