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City Council Charter Panel Proposes Independent Lease Review After Adams Scandal
The charter review commission convened by the City Council will recommend tightened oversight of city government leases, following reports that an appointee of Mayor Eric Adams steered a lease to the billionaire owner of a Wall Street office building who’d donated generously to the mayor’s legal defense fund. The commission is set to release its […]
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Job-Promoting Tax Breaks Are on the Brink of Blowing Up
Real estate interests and their allies downtown and outside Manhattan are making a final push to renew a decades-old tax break before the state legislature adjourns next week.The Relocation and Employment Assistance Program, or REAP, has existed for years but will expire June 30 unless the Senate and Assembly pass legislation renewing it. REAP was […]
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‘They’re Taking People,’ Man Separated From U.S. Citizen Wife Tells Her Moments Before His Immigration Courthouse Capture
Jessica, a 33-year-old special education teacher at a local private school, was sitting damp-eyed on a stoop near immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza. Her husband, Jean Carlos, had come Monday morning for a hearing in his asylum case, and Jessica, feeling a growing sense of unease, had decided to accompany him. The two exchanged […]
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Video of NYPD Pursuit Shows Cops Abandoning Site of Deadly Crash
After NYPD cops chased a vehicle that crashed and burst into flames early on a morning in April, the officers drove past the vehicle with the victim still inside — and continued driving, video of the fatal crash obtained by THE CITY shows. The crash and flames killed 31-year-old Francisco Guzman Parra, whom officers from […]
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Cuomo Claimed These NYCHA Tenant Leaders Endorsed Him. They Say They Never Did.
Jeannette Salcedo is still mulling over who to endorse in the mayor’s race. So Salcedo, the resident association president at NYCHA’s Castle Hill Houses in The Bronx, was taken aback when someone asked her about an Instagram post from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s account with her name on it, indicating she’d endorsed him for mayor. […]
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