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Summer Jobs Program Heist Likely Had Hacker Help, Say ATM Experts
Early in July, two young workers in the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) told their supervisor, an employee of a Bronx nonprofit, that strangers had approached them on the street offering goods or cash in exchange for a debit card issued by SYEP. “In one instance it was, ‘Hey, I can get you a […]
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Cinema Village Union Clipped by Firings Following Strike Vote
A freshly formed union at one of New York City’s oldest movie theaters is reeling after the firing of four of its original members amid contract negotiations. The Cinema Village Union, which falls under UAW Local 2179, is now down to seven members working at the historic 62-year-old movie house on East 12th Street in […]
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LISTEN: ‘These Were the Real Culture Wars’
In the latest episode of LIT NYC, host Alyssa Katz talks with J. Hoberman about his new opus, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop. “Certainly the cheap rents are essential. And the fact that there were areas of the city, of Manhattan, which had been in a way […]
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State Takes $166 Million Step Toward Making Interborough Express a Reality
New York is kicking off design and engineering work on a “game changer” mass-transit tie between Brooklyn and Queens along 14 miles of an existing but little-used freight railway. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday touted a nearly $166 million commitment in state money for the initial work as a down payment on the $5.5 billion […]
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Heavy Rain Again Scrambles Commute for NYC, But City Escapes Forecast’s Worst
Subway stations flooded. Cars got stuck on a Queens parkway. Park staircases became waterwalls in Brooklyn. But, overall, New York City mostly avoided the worst possible outcome from Thursday evening’s torrential rain storm. New York City was under a flood watch Thursday afternoon, bracing for potentially dangerous and disruptive flooding in streets, basement apartments and […]
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