NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch is defending the NYPD’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities currently detaining a Palestinian woman who participated in protests at Columbia University, arguing New York’s strict sanctuary laws don’t apply. But advocates for immigrants say that Tisch is dangerously wrong in the case of the woman, 32-year-old Leqaa Kordia, and in effect […]

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Clarisa Alayeto, who is running to replace term-limited Councilmember Diana Ayala in Mott Haven, East Harlem and Randall’s Island, won her appeal to remain on the Democratic primary ballot next month.  It’s a big win for the first-time candidate against a big-money special interest group that brought the legal challenge to try to kick her […]

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Days before the long-delayed national deadline for travelers to show “REAL ID compliant” identification to board a domestic flight, people lined up outside Room 133 at a city building on Lafayette Street just north of City Hall, anxious to enter the Office of Vital Records. “What are you purchasing today?” a staffer asked Chris Morrissey, […]

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When the late Pope Francis visited New York City in 2015, a group of students at Elmhurst’s Cathedral Prep Seminary, the only remaining high school seminary in the United States, reflected on the possibility they would one day consider the priesthood. Patrice Legoute was at the time a 15-year-old junior, who said he dreamed since […]

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President Donald Trump’s proposed budget released last week would shred New York’s housing safety net by cutting billions of dollars in federal aid, putting limits on vouchers used by some 500,000 people statewide. Landlords, especially owners of smaller rent-stabilized buildings, would suddenly find that many of their tenants could no longer pay rent, leading to […]

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