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Mamdani’s Municipal Grocery Faces Basket Full of Challenges
As she surveyed the packed aisles of her local supermarket on 116th Street in East Harlem, Chelssy T. cast a longing eye towards a vacant lot under the Metro-North tracks that’s the first announced site for one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-owned grocery stores. “Prices have gone up so much,” said Chelssy, 35, a lifelong […]
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Mamdani’s New ‘Rikers Czar’ Helped Design Plan to Close Jail Complex
As New York City barrels toward a legally mandated shutdown of Rikers Island after years of delays and fierce opposition, the Mamdani administration has tapped a key architect and booster of the original plan to help see it through. Dana Kaplan, who helped coordinate the city’s blueprint to close the troubled jail complex, has been […]
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Council Member Arrested at Eviction Protest at Disputed Brooklyn Brownstone
An ongoing fight to keep a Brooklyn grandmother in her family home escalated on Wednesday morning when the police arrested Councilmember Chi Ossé as he protested the move. Ossé (D-Brooklyn) was in front of the Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone with community supporters to prevent longtime resident Carmella Charrington from being evicted when officers from the New York […]
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A Superluxury Condo Sold for $87.7 Million. Will NYC’s New Pied-à-Terre Tax Apply?
A Billionaires’ Row penthouse that sold for $87.7 million. Sting’s pad overlooking Central Park, bought for $65.7 million. A Trump Tower apartment owned by Donald himself. These properties might seem like exactly the type of real estate that stands to be hit with a newly proposed “pied-à-terre” tax, which takes aim at high-priced homes that […]
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A Late Start to Next NYC School Year and Other 2026-27 Scheduling Quirks
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City’s 2026-27 public school calendar is out, and families can expect a long summer, with the first day of school starting on Thursday, Sept. 10. They can also expect a late start to next summer, with the last day of school falling […]
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