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Mamdani Orders End to Migrant Shelters

A migrant couple waits in line outside the Roosevelt Hotel shelter.

It’s almost the end for the city’s migrant shelter system. Mayor Zohran Mamdani instructed the Department of Homeless Services on Monday to come up with a plan by mid-February to phase out what remains of the network, long maligned by critics as a “shadow shelter system” where longstanding minimum standards for other city shelters don’t […]

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Trump Admin. to Freeze $10B in Social Programs to New York and Other Dem States

Toddlers attend the Little Scholars daycare in Chelsea

The Trump administration is poised to freeze approximately $10 billion in funding for several programs supporting child care, social services grants and cash assistance in several Democratic-led states. Minnesota, California, Colorado, New York and Illinois would lose access to billions in funding through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, the Child Care and Development […]

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Mamdani Renews Rikers Emergency, For Now

The Rikers Island detention complex was visible from The Bronx,

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday night signed a new executive order extending the long-running emergency declaration governing the city’s jails and Rikers Island, while requiring Department of Correction leadership to produce a concrete plan to unwind years of suspended jail rules including restrictions on solitary confinement. The order renews, for another five days, the state […]

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One Year In, Congestion Toll Yields Gains for Manhattan and MTA

Less traffic. Faster buses. More subway riders. Those are just some of the outcomes of the first year of congestion pricing in Manhattan’s downtown core, with the anniversary of its launch marked Monday by elected officials and street-safety activists. The tolling scheme, implemented by the MTA on Jan. 5, 2025, imposes a fee for passenger […]

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Venezuelans Cheer as Maduro Faces Federal Charges in Manhattan Courthouse

Venezuelan immigrant Ana Salas celebrates outside Manhattan federal court the capture of Nicolás Maduro

Around 200 Venezuelans gathered outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan Monday to cheer the removal and prosecution of their home country’s president, socialist strongman Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by U.S. authorities over the weekend. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, both pleaded not guilty to charges of narco-terrorism, cocaine conspiracy and machine gun […]

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