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They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out ‘The Hole’
For decades, residents of a neighborhood that straddles the border of Brooklyn and Queens have dealt with the unique effects of living in a basin: swampy flooding, bumpy streets, overgrown lots strewn with trash and leaky septic tanks — because homes are not connected to the city sewer system. With roads named for Amber, Sapphire, Ruby […]
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Bronx NYCHA Explosion May Have Been Caused by Safety System Failure
Investigators are looking into whether a safety system failure in the boiler of a Bronx public housing building allowed gas to build up inside the boiler chamber and travel up a 20-story chimney, a breakdown that triggered a massive explosion when a technician flipped the switch to turn it on, THE CITY has learned. In […]
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Their Families Fled Soviet Socialism. Now They’re Knocking Doors for Mamdani.
In their bright T-shirts, the volunteers for Zohran Mamdani’s campaign on a recent Saturday afternoon at McGolrick Park in Greenpoint fit right in, part of a citywide cohort of canvassers 50,000 strong and growing. But within their own families and communities of origin, the three are outliers. Their families all fled socialism or fought against […]
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City Leaders Rip Trump DOT for Pausing Billions for Second Avenue Subway
New York officials pledged Thursday to fight to keep the Second Avenue Subway’s path to East Harlem on track — even as the nearly $7 billion expansion project faces a funding threat from the Trump administration. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan/The Bronx) and other elected officials ripped the U.S. Department of Transportation’s move to withhold billions […]
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Pinched for Pet Food: Hunger Pains Extend to New Yorkers’ Furry Friends
Hundreds of people flocked to a South Bronx park Tuesday to pick up food for their families — pets included. Jonathan Vicente hauled a large sack of kibble for his 3-year-old bully mix, Maria, who walked alongside him at Bill Rainey Park to one of the dozens of mobile food pantries across the city where […]
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