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Traveling the City By Water: Your Guide to NYC Boats and Ferries

This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. Our city is a collection of islands, and New Yorkers have been using ferries to traverse its waterways for centuries. The first ferryman in […]

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LISTEN: A Father and an Immigrant and a Criminal

The NYPD's 1904 mugshot of Sai Wing Mock, AKA Mock Duck

In the latest episode of LIT NYC, host Katie Honan talks with author Radha Vatsal, a speechwriter at city hall by day, to discuss her new novel about old New York, No. 10 Doyers Street, and “a past that was not as black and white as we make it out to be today.” Vatsal, an […]

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Sweeping Brooklyn Marine Terminal Development Project Vote Postponed, Again

A giant crane sits at the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn.

A vote on the proposed makeover of a mile-long stretch of industrial Brooklyn coastline has been postponed for the fifth time this year — once again leaving the future of a $3.5 billion port redevelopment plan up in the air. The leadership of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Task Force and the New York City Economic […]

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New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign

Just weeks after the Trump administration pulled off the dismissal of corrupt fundraising charges against Mayor Eric Adams, it appears that his reelection campaign was at it again, an investigation by THE CITY has found. The Adams campaign in May once more accepted funds from individuals who appear to be straw donors and submitted them […]

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City Pilot Aims to Bring Free Wi-Fi to Thousands of Low-Income Households

Mayor Eric Adams announces in The Bronx that 2,200 households in the borough and in Upper Manhattan will get free wifi.

Thousands of residents in The Bronx and upper Manhattan will soon be able to tap into free Wi-Fi through a new program announced Wednesday, which aims to bridge the digital divide in neighborhoods throughout the city. A report released earlier this month by think tank Center for an Urban Future found 22% of households in […]

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