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Women Take the Wheel in NYC’s For-Hire Vehicles, Even as Male Drivers Predominate
As Midori Valdivia takes the wheel of the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, she is encountering an industry with other women in key leadership roles — and where the number of trips with females in the driver’s seat is growing. Valdivia is the fourth woman to serve as commissioner and chair in the […]
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To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First
On a breezy Monday morning on a quiet corner of Queens, 11 leafy new neighbors arrived on a truck, fresh from a nursery in Kansas City. Elm, red maple and cherry trees — some with pink blossoms — would be planted next to the sidewalks across a few blocks of Cambria Heights, a suburban-style neighborhood […]
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LISTEN: The Wheels on the Spin Go Round and Round
The former president with a supposedly funny name who was smeared as an African-born socialist made a surprise appearance at a Bronx pre-school that opened up on a Saturday so the tots could hang out with him and New York City’s actually African-born socialist mayor with a supposedly funny name at a very sweet and […]
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Challenger’s Poll Shows Soft Support for Espaillat in NY-13
Only 42% of likely Democratic primary voters in the House district spanning Upper Manhattan and parts of The Bronx would vote for longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the primary election according to an internal poll from challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier. Based on name recognition alone, voters picked Espaillat over Avila Chevalier 42% to […]
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This Rustic Ferry Is Getting Dismantled in Queens to Become an Artificial Reef
Behind the gate of a waterfront restaurant, a rusted ferry wobbles on the waves of the East River. It’s become a familiar eyesore for residents of Long Island City, Queens since it was first moored to the Anable Basin in 2012 and has floated there since, a forgotten lump of metal — until now. The […]
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