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Big Tax Breaks Get Bigger as Mega-Developers Challenge Assessments
With a 40% break on what they’d normally owe the city in property tax, the owners of a luxury emporium at 20 Hudson Yards seem to have a good deal. But that hasn’t stopped them from filing appeals against the city claiming that they’re hugely overtaxed. Over the eight years running through February of the […]
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City Council Gears Up for Sanctuary City Fight
The New York City Council is gearing up for a legal battle over the city’s sanctuary laws barring local authorities from assisting in federal immigration enforcement. Lawmakers passed a resolution Thursday allowing Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to sue Mayor Eric Adams and possibly President Donald Trump over the issue. The resolution — a required step […]
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City’s Youth Lockups Are Failing Vulnerable Detainees, State Audit Finds
The city’s two juvenile detention centers are plagued with chronic absenteeism, a massive spike in contraband, and a failure to properly report thousands of serious incidents of violence and abuse, according to a new state audit. The 46-page review also found that only 53% of the young people surveyed got an initial interview and assessment […]
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How Sluggish Courts Help Keep Rikers Jails Full
Felisa Geddis got her first look at Dondre Richardson as police officers led him, handcuffed, from the 88th precinct house in Brooklyn on a Wednesday night in January 2020. Her 55-year-old cousin, L. Antonio Litman, had been stabbed to death nine days earlier, and the officers had arrested Richardson for the crime. She remembered her […]
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Trump Climate Cuts ‘Devastating’ to Local Flood Protection Projects
Sharp Trump administration cuts to Federal Emergency Management Agency spending on climate resiliency are threatening projects meant to protect against flooding from rainfall and coastal storms across all five boroughs. FEMA on Friday cancelled the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, jeopardizing about $882 million in grant funding for efforts across the country meant to […]
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