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Snowy Park Complaints Pile Up After Blizzard
Hundreds of complaints were filed to 311 during this week’s blizzard for unplowed snow in or near city parks, with Brooklyn parks leading the list. New Yorkers flocked to the city’s parks to sled and build snowmen – but resources were also stretched when it came to clearing everything up. Between Feb. 22, the day […]
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SNAP Work Requirements Take Effect March 1: What New Yorkers Need to Know
Some New Yorkers receiving food stamps must prove they are working, studying or volunteering for at least 80 hours per month or risk losing the benefit under new federal rules beginning on Sunday, March 1. The changes immediately apply to approximately 123,000 able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD), according to the city’s Human Resources Administration (HRA). […]
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City Officials Warn That Immigration Enforcement May Be Impersonating Housing Inspectors
Housing officials are warning New Yorkers about how to tell a real city inspector from someone who may be impersonating one amid “increased immigration enforcement,” according to a recent PSA-style video from the agency. The video was posted just one day before federal agents claiming to be police investigating a missing child got past Columbia […]
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LISTEN: The Other Guy Was No Joke
Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous […]
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Snow Shovelers Answered the Mayor’s Call, But Payday May Not Arrive Until Spring
New Yorkers flocked to sanitation garages this week to answer the call for emergency snow shovelers. But those winter laborers may not have realized that they likely won’t get paid for that work until spring. Several emergency snow shovelers who worked during January’s big storm have not been paid a month afterwards, they told THE […]
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