An offshore wind project that would bring renewable power to over half a million New York City homes could be dead in the water. Work on Empire Wind, an in-progress project developed by the company Equinor, has been on hold since the Trump administration “paused” the leases for it — and four other projects, including […]

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Anger among New York elected officials grew Tuesday as more details about a City Council staffer’s arrest a day earlier began to emerge.  On Monday evening the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest of council staffer Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez who worked for the past year as a data analyst in personnel services, according […]

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Eric Adams’ post-mayoral debut in the world of crypto currency ran into a bit of a buzz saw this week, with his new coin, The NYC Token, plunging in value shortly after he announced it as the “future of digital currency” at a frigid Times Square event. The token opened at 60 cents per share […]

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Mount Sinai Hospital fired three nurses via voicemail message on the eve of a massive ongoing strike, a move that amounts to illegal retaliation and intimidation, the New York State Nurses Association said on Tuesday. The three nurses worked in the labor and delivery unit, which has experienced “aggressive anti-union activity,” including disciplining nurses who […]

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Nearly six years after the city’s watchdog warned that the Department of Correction’s paper logbooks were so unreliable they obscured hundreds of violent incidents, jail officials announced Tuesday that they are finally testing a digital replacement.  The pilot, launched last fall in one unit at Rikers Island, marks the agency’s first move toward abandoning handwritten […]

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