Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
LISTEN: Kishkes, Knishes and a Lost New York City
“In my quest to be more American than Americans, I wanted to know more than American music [and in 1972] I was staying with a great fiddle player and banjo player in North Carolina named Tommy Jarrell and he was puzzled, because a lot of the people who had come from up north to study […]
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Council Approves Gig Worker and Vendor Reforms, Building Rules and More in Marathon Year-End Session
The City Council on Thursday voted to approve a torrent of bills related to criminal justice, housing construction, labor and even a resolution honoring the New York Knicks in an end-of-year push before the turnover of power at City Hall and the Council itself. Lawmakers weighed more than 50 bills and over a dozen resolutions […]
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Trump Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
The Department of Homeland Security’s attorneys inside New York’s immigration courts are moving to close asylum claims en masse, arguing that people in deportation proceedings have no right to seek asylum in the United States because they’re eligible to do so in three other countries with which the U.S. has recent agreements: Honduras, Ecuador and […]
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Top Adams Deputy Shouldn’t Have Been Cleared to Rep MSG, Probe Finds
First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro’s side gig representing the owners of Madison Square Garden in their fight against a former Knicks player was approved by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board, but legally shouldn’t have been, a new report from the Department of Investigation found. The March 18 advisory opinion to Mastro — who hadn’t […]
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‘They Treated Me Like I Was Nothing:’ Rikers Detainee Alleges Sexual Assault
A former Rikers Island detainee has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing two city correction officers of sexually assaulting him during a retaliatory strip search, pepper-spraying him at close range and dragging him half-naked through his cell block. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, was brought by Kyle Knight, 29, who was a […]
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