For the past 50 years, New York’s judges have been required to visit a prison every four years — a little-known mandate that many ignored and others got out of the way with brief walk-throughs or stops in visiting rooms. A new proposal from a subcommittee created by the state’s Office of Court Administration would […]

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New Yorkers headed to the polls Tuesday in the heated race for mayor of New York City. A lot is at stake for the nation’s largest city as New Yorkers face the threats of further federal funding cuts and immigration raids from President Donald Trump, on top of already skyrocketing housing costs, a homelessness crisis […]

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Nearly a decade ago, hundreds of NYCHA’s boilers were completely out of compliance with the city’s anti-pollution rules. Only a small percentage had received the required inspection by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Some 70% were running without mandated certificates of operation. So NYCHA and DEP signed off on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) […]

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The tallies are in from the nine-day early voting period that ended Sunday afternoon: More than 732,000 New Yorkers have already turned out to cast their ballots, accounting for nearly 14% of the more than 5.3 million registered voters in the city, according to THE CITY’s analysis of the latest city Board of Elections data.  […]

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