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As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
When masked federal officers showed up on a street corner in Corona, Queens, earlier this month and started arresting Latino men, seemingly stopped at random, volunteers alerted through Signal chats and direct messages rushed to the scene. The feds were gone, along with the men they’d detained, and the volunteers went through the area, passing […]
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Mamdani Election Signals Lane Change for Stymied Street Overhauls
After making transportation a key plank in his campaign platform, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will have the chance to make up for Eric Adams’ missed opportunities to reshape New York’s streets when he takes over at City Hall. Street design, parking enforcement, bike and bus lanes are among the areas where experts, advocates and former Department […]
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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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