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Mayoral Candidates Combat Cuomo, Vie for Debate Stage With Just Weeks Left

With just weeks to go before early voting in the June primary for mayor, new campaign disclosures show the Democratic field’s fundraising coalescing around five candidates — with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo advancing a juggernaut and rivals amassing resources to stand out on the ranked-choice ballot. After a sputtering start, the disclosures filed Friday with […]

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House Republicans Just Dealt a Blow to Wind Developers

Off-shore wind turbines create energy.

This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. Renewable energy advocates received some small wins from the Trump administration on offshore wind development. But the House-passed budget reconciliation bill could present a new set of problems. The bill that passed […]

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Your Borough’s Mini-Mayors on the Ballot

This article is adapted from our May 22 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Beep beep, new BPs coming through! Among the many other elections in next month’s primary — dozens of City Council seats, district attorneys, the comptroller, and of course the mayor […]

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What the House Budget Bill Means for New Yorkers

People enter and leave Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.

The Republican tax and spending bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday would punch a hole as big as $20 billion in the $254 billion state budget enacted just weeks ago. It could force more than 1 million New Yorkers off Medicaid statewide.  And it would confront both the state and city with […]

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Beach Season in NYC is Just Beginning. For New Lifeguards, It Began Months Ago.

Young people train at Fort Hamilton High School to become city lifeguards.

This story first appeared in our free weekly summer newsletter, Summer & THE CITY. Sign up here. Summer unofficially kicks off Memorial Day weekend with the opening of New York City’s public beaches, with hundreds of lifeguards deployed to 14 miles of shoreline. For new lifeguards, the work to don the orange uniforms began months […]

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