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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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Mamdani Team to Terminate 179 Adams City Hall Staffers
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
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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