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‘They Put Me In a Cell’: Old-Timers Fight Eviction From the New Times Square
By the time the police took him away, Garratt Kennedy had already been at war for months with his landlord, a new owner who was trying to turn the gritty Hell’s Kitchen SRO Kennedy called home into a slick Times Square hotel. Kennedy is 59 and had lived in his cramped, 100-square-foot, rent-stabilized SRO room […]
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‘They Put Me In a Cell’: Old-Timers Fight Eviction From the New Times Square
By the time the police took him away, Garratt Kennedy had already been at war for months with his landlord, a new owner who was trying to turn the gritty Hell’s Kitchen SRO Kennedy called home into a slick Times Square hotel. Kennedy is 59 and had lived in his cramped, 100-square-foot, rent-stabilized SRO room […]
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McGuinness Makeover Begins in Greenpoint After Years of Street-Redesign Scandal
The city is moving full speed ahead on the makeover of a deadly Greenpoint street after Manhattan prosecutors charged last year that the project was slowed by political power players during the mayoral administration of Eric Adams. Department of Transportation and City Hall officials broke ground Wednesday on work to complete the long-delayed redesign of […]
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Judge Raises Shutting Down 26 Federal Plaza Detention as ICE Conditions Go on Trial
A federal judge in Lower Manhattan is considering whether to further restrict the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to keep detained immigrants inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza. In a two-hour long bench trial Wednesday morning, immigrant advocates laid out their case that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had repeatedly violated the constitutional rights of […]
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How ‘Next Friend’ Habeas Petitions Work for Immigrants in ICE Custody
This article was originally published by Documented, an independent, non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City. Across the country, thousands of immigrants have been arrested on the street and in immigration courts as part of Trump’s mass deportation agenda. In the New York metro area, including Long Island and […]
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