Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s promise of a four-year rent freeze for the city’s nearly 1 million regulated apartments is designed to make New York affordable for the people who live in them. But, real estate experts warn, it will make the city more expensive for the New Yorkers occupying the 1.1 million market rate […]

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Even with his federal criminal case dismissed over six months ago, Mayor Eric Adams has seen his legal bills continue to climb — leaving a trust he set up under city rules to pay those bills with over $4.5 million in unpaid expenses, according to the latest filings. Adams set up a trust that in […]

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A jury on Monday convicted a former state correction officer of second-degree murder — and acquitted two other former officers — in the killing of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man beaten to death last year inside Marcy Correctional Facility upstate. The verdict against David Kingsley, one of three officers on trial, marks the second conviction […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. More than 150,000 New York City students experienced homelessness last year, setting yet another record high according to new data obtained by the nonprofit Advocates for Children. The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, […]

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