A major effort to speed construction of badly needed housing with a referendum vote on changes to the City Charter appears to be gaining momentum as opposition by the City Council comes under increased scrutiny. Updated data from the New York Housing Conference released Wednesday shows that some areas of the city are producing virtually […]

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Queens City Council member Tiffany Cabán is set to introduce legislation Wednesday to sharply restrict vehicle pursuits by the NYPD and to require greater transparency when they happen. Cabán, an attorney and member of the council’s Public Safety Committee, is hoping to deepen reforms of a pursuit regimen already overhauled by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, […]

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Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa has made railing against battery energy storage systems a key part of his campaign.  He rallied with residents of Hollis, Queens, Marine Park, Brooklyn and Eastchester, The Bronx to oppose proposed battery projects in their neighborhoods. On Monday evening, he traveled to the Staten Island neighborhood of Travis to celebrate […]

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A bipartisan coalition of state officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, sued the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program partially funded through November. In a press release obtained by NOTUS ahead of the lawsuit being filed, James argued that the administration is unlawfully allowing SNAP to run […]

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As the government shutdown stretches on, more than 1.7 million New York City residents who rely on SNAP benefits will not receive them as soon as Nov. 1. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), once known as food stamps, is funding sent out monthly by the federal government to low-income people to help them buy […]

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