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What the Warnings About NYC’s Bond Rating Do and Don’t Mean
The big four rating agencies aren’t happy with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Kroll, which each assign a letter grade to the bonds New York City sells to finance its debt, have warned they may reduce their rating because Mamdani intends to dip into the city’s reserves at a time when […]
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NYC Student Detained by ICE Returns to School After 10 Months
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Dylan Lopez Contreras sat waiting for a copy of his class schedule in a sunny fourth-floor room of his Bronx high school as his counselor walked in, wearing a “Free Dylan” button attached to the strap of his messenger bag. Dylan stood, and Hedin […]
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Ex-NYPD Sergeant and 3 Others Arrested in Bribery Probe Linked to City Council
Prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday alleging the operators of city-funded migrant shelters skimmed $1 million from their no-bid contracts, and pocketed kickbacks from subcontractors they brought in to handle security and food. The charges filed by U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella in Brooklyn are part of a broader corruption investigation that appears to include a City […]
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More Than 40k 311 Calls From Rikers Go Into a Black Hole Every Year
After visiting her son on Rikers Island last June, Benjamin Kelly’s mother dialed 311 in a panic. He was hallucinating about an insect crawling up his nose, dead bodies in the walls and something reaching up from the floor to grab him, Angela Kelly told the operator. She urged the jail’s medical staff to change […]
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How to Donate Clothes and Textiles in NYC — and Where It All Goes
Spring is finally here — a time for letting the light in, especially on the dark corners of your (overstuffed) closet. The average New York City household throws out 92 pounds of textiles per year, so before you toss those old sheets or out-of-style pants in the trash, take a pause. There are many ways […]
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