“It’s hard to be a human in New York but it’s downright dangerous to be a baby squirrel,” says Kyra Tippens-Richan, who spends her work days performing autopsies on animals and her off-hours caring for squirrels. “I was in high school and I had a boyfriend at the time. I convinced him to come over […]

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The plan from Mets owner Steve Cohen to build a casino on the parking lot next to Citi Field cleared another hurdle Tuesday as the State Senate approved so-called parkland alienation, which allows for development on the site if it is selected for a gaming license.  The Queens project, dubbed Metropolitan Park, would turn the […]

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A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from cutting funding from the MTA and New York state over their repeated refusals to shut down congestion pricing. The ruling from the U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan federal court came one day before Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had warned that the […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters The Bronx high school student from Venezuela was trying to do everything right. Dylan, 20, fled his home country last year and turned himself in at the U.S. border in April 2024 through a Biden-era entry program. He requested asylum and was permitted […]

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The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633.  Six years later, the Dutch and North African rabble-rouser, who’d become one of the largest landowners in what was then New Amsterdam, was banished to the hinterlands of Brooklyn for a litany of colorful misdeeds, including paying wages with a dead […]

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