Years before Mayor Eric Adams gave Waymo the green light to test its robot cars in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, the company spent millions trying to woo public officials in hopes of someday having its autonomous vehicles cleared to cruise New York City streets. Lobbying records reveal that Waymo — a subsidiary of Alphabet, […]

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The incumbent mayor polling in the single digits regained the spotlight after Labor Day as he insisted he was running to somehow win a second term, not auditioning for a job as the Trump administration’s new ambassador to Saudi Arabia. But even then, he seemed at least as concerned with dragging down Andrew Cuomo as […]

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Judge David Kim was on the bench for a merits hearing on an asylum case at 26 Federal Plaza Thursday afternoon when he received an email informing him he’d been laid off, “effective today.”  “I had to stop the hearing,” he recalled.  Kim was one of two immigration judges, both immigrants themselves, in New York City […]

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THE CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. Amid increased pressure from federal and state leaders, New York colleges must designate a staffer by next year to address hate crimes and discrimination under a new law applying to both public and private institutions. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the […]

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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani urged supporters to join them and volunteer in the final weeks of the general election at an event Saturday, the latest stop on the senator’s national Fighting Oligarchy tour. The event was held at Brooklyn College, where Sanders, a borough native, attended school for a year […]

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