The CEO of a local super PAC spending big money to support City Council candidate Wil López has fallen flat in an unprecedented effort to knock five competing candidates off of the ballot — including a member of the Central Park Five, Raymond Santana, hoping to join fellow exoneree Yusuf Salaam on the Council.  On Thursday […]

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A mailer sent out this month to voters across New York City ahead of the primary election rails against “extreme agendas” and advocates for a “sensible majority to “beat back special interests pushing our politics toward extremes.”  The fliers feature headlines about a man who allegedly had sex with a corpse on an R train […]

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Every May, the New York City Dance Parade throngs the streets of Lower Manhattan with flamboyant costumes, dynamic music and expressive movements.  But ahead of this year’s extravaganza on Saturday — where more than 100 dance styles from West Africa Kuku and Bolivian Caporales to Dancehall and Vogue will be performed — participants from kids […]

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This article is adapted from our May 15 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Your phone buzzes; it’s a text. You hope it’s your crush. Instead, it’s a message from an unknown number asking if you’d like to participate in a survey asking voters […]

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This story was produced in collaboration with Documented.  The detention and deportation of 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez Flores to a megaprison in El Salvador earlier this year set off a huge firestorm when it was first reported by Documented because the Venezuelan had no criminal record and a pending asylum application. But a previously unreported interaction […]

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