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Corona Plaza Vendors Cast Adrift After Adams Lost Interest
Two years ago, street vendors returned to Corona Plaza in diminished numbers after a sweeping crackdown by the Sanitation Department on the Queens public square earlier that summer upended their livelihoods. The energetic but unregulated market that drew neighborhood complaints was no more, and in its place came what Mayor Eric Adams called the city’s […]
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NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation
The NYPD arrested more than a dozen people and unleashed clouds of pepper spray on a spontaneous protest formed around a SoHo parking garage where masked agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had gathered inside. It’s unclear exactly what the federal agents had planned for Saturday. Around 11 a.m the agents began staging […]
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Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge
A 28-year-old Queens construction worker was headed to work one morning in early November when a man came up to him dressed in a blue vest that said “POLICE” on it. The Central American man, whose name THE CITY is withholding, said he wanted to help, concerned the officer was investigating a crime in his […]
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Unions Brace to Bargain With New Boss Zohran Mamdani
At a party during SOMOS, the annual Puerto Rico getaway for New York’s political class, District Council 37 executive director Henry Garrido proudly introduced Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a packed outdoor crowd at the Caribe Hilton of jubilant union officials, political insiders and government lobbyists. Just days after Mamdani’s election, the public display of support […]
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Underground Grime Wave: MTA Cleaning Crews Tackle Tourist Trash in Midtown
A seasonal surge in the mounds of trash hauled out of Midtown subway stations — and a bump in track fires last December at the stop beneath Rockefeller Center — will result in additional track cleaning at those locations through the end of the holidays. Starting days before Thanksgiving and extending two weeks past New […]
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