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House Republicans Demand NYCHA Answers on Bronx Explosion
Six weeks after a gas explosion caused a 20-story chimney to collapse at a New York City Housing Authority building in The Bronx, some Republican members of Congress are demanding an explanation for the catastrophe. On Thursday five GOP reps on the House Committee on Financial Services, including two New York State congressmen, Mike Lawler […]
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LISTEN: Fear, Trash and Love in a Drop Dead New York City
Really terrible things happened all at once, and if you could take any one of them out of the equation, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. I’m going to rattle them off: the high interest rates, the high cost of labor, good union contracts, terrible accounting in City Hall, cynicism in the White House, white flight, […]
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SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.
With the government shutdown ended and funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program assured through September 2026, millions of Americans are about to start getting regular food aid again. But the strain on the nation’s largest anti-hunger program isn’t going to let up entirely, and more of the burden is about to shift to the […]
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US Tennis Association Sues NYC Over Queens Casino Plan
The United States Tennis Association National Tennis Center sued New York City on Wednesday, accusing the Eric Adams administration of violating the terms of its long-term lease on the National Tennis Center in order to aid Mets owner Steve Cohen in his plans for a nearby Queens casino. The center, which runs the US Open […]
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Brooklyn DA Backs Reduced Sentence for Notorious Child Molester
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is backing a bid to re-sentence a prominent counselor in the Hasidic Jewish community who was originally sentenced to 103 years in prison for repeatedly abusing an adolescent girl. The move to support leniency for the counselor, Nechemya Weberman, has alarmed advocates for abuse survivors as the long-running case returns […]
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