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Underground Grime Wave: MTA Cleaning Crews Tackle Tourist Trash in Midtown

People enter the Rockefeller Center subway station,

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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Mamdani Team to Terminate 179 Adams City Hall Staffers

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks at a Bronx food bank about helping people dealing with food insecurity,

More than 170 staffers in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will be notified Wednesday that they will not be working under the administration of incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Most of the 179 employees staffers work within the mayor’s office, in and around City Hall.  One employee — who […]

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Old Newsstand With a New Beat: Police Set Up Shop at West Fourth

NYPD officers open up a station inside an old newsstand at the West 4th Street subway platform,

An old subway newsstand has been reinvented as an NYPD outpost on a platform at the West Fourth Street station in Manhattan. Uniformed police officers and National Guard members are now stationed by the former newsstand on the northbound platform of the A, C, E lines at the underground complex that had the highest number […]

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70K Apply to Mamdani’s Transition Team. Here’s How to Actually Get Hired by NYC.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani leaves Flushing Meadow Corona Park after holding his first press event since winning the election,

Two days after winning the general election, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani launched an online portal for people seeking jobs in his new administration.  More than 70,000 applications have been submitted, his team announced Monday.  But how many jobs and what types are available? Mamdani and his team aren’t saying.  The incoming mayor’s team also hasn’t explained […]

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Who’s Running in the 2026 Congressional Primaries in NYC

Public defender Dalourny Nemorin and former Assemblymember Michael Blake, and Bronx Congressional Democratic incumbent Ritchie Torres are seen in a collage image

New Yorkers will vote next June in a primary election to determine who appears on the November ballot to represent them in Congress. The primary carries high stakes, as longtime representatives Nydia Velázquez and Jerry Nadler retire from lengthy careers in Congress, provoking competitive races for their empty seats.  In Brooklyn, Manhattan, The Bronx and […]

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