Staten Island’s bus service is getting a boost, with newer rides replacing close to half of the borough’s fleet by the middle of next year, MTA officials said Monday. Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials said the newer reinforcements for Staten Island are arriving at the expense of bus service elsewhere in the city, with […]

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The FAQ NYC hosts dig into the Trump administration’s latest demands for compliance, why Mayor Eric Adams insists New York is powerless to enforce its own laws and ordinances inside of the federal office building in lower Manhattan now doubling as a makeshift jail, and how the Department of Homeland Security has the city and […]

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The Board of Elections is moving to certify results Tuesday in a tightly contested Brooklyn Republican City Council primary even as a criminal probe of alleged vote fraud proceeds. At least 27 ballots are under investigation in Brooklyn’s 47th City Council District, where a razor-thin 32-vote margin separates MAGA candidate George Sarantopoulos and county Republican […]

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The city Department of Probation is understaffed, overworked and plagued by a revolving door of top officials under Commissioner Juanita Holmes, according to multiple veteran officers and the union leader representing rank-and-file employees.  As of June 1, the department was operating with just 750 staff members, despite having 974 budgeted positions, according to a City […]

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The judge presiding in nearly half the new cases on the New York immigration courts’ docket for adult detainees was finally fed up. Immigration Judge Dara Reid had granted bond twice to a 31-year-old Venezuelan man, flatly rejecting the “unsubstantiated assertion” from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that he was tied to the gang Tren […]

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