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How NYC’s Tangled Property Tax System Works, and Why You Should Care
New York City’s complex property tax system affects everyone in the city, not just people who own property. The cost of those taxes affects retail space, how much you pay for rent and how (and where) things get built. In the five boroughs, there’s been longstanding and widespread agreement that the system is convoluted and […]
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Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s broad affordability agenda should extend to four-legged New Yorkers, with funding for low-cost veterinarian services that could help overloaded shelters, a new proposal from animal welfare advocates says. Voters for Animal Rights and Flatbush Cats, a non-profit that also provides low-cost vet care, last month released a policy proposal for the new […]
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Bellevue Hospital a De Facto Homeless Shelter, as Winter Storms Test City Outreach
As an historic blizzard pummeled New York City Monday, about four dozen people dozed off in chairs in a lobby of Bellevue Hospital, slumped over suitcases or swaddled in blankets. Some were dressed in ripped sweaters or sandals with no socks. Nurses and doctors zipped by, barely glancing at them. Bellevue’s south lobby is one […]
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Mamdani to Appoint Racial Equity Advocate to Lead City Planning
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday will name Sideya Sherman as the director of the city Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission. Sherman most recently served as the commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice (formerly the Mayor’s Office of Equity) under Mayor Eric Adams. She was previously […]
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Blizzard Disrupts City’s Criminal Courts Already Seeing Long Delays
A major snowstorm that blanketed the city overnight forced criminal arraignment courts across New York City to remain closed until 2 p.m. Monday, delaying the processing of newly arrested people and raising fresh concerns about potential backlogs in already strained holding facilities and courthouses. By mid-afternoon, courts began working through arrests mostly made before the […]
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