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Ingrid Lewis-Martin Accepted Diamond Earrings to Help Developers Dodge Inspections, New Filings Allege
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, once former Mayor Eric Adams’ closest advisor, faces a wide variety of pending criminal charges, including allegations that she accepted bribes from two developers in exchange for making their problems with city building inspectors disappear. In none of those schemes did prosecutors allege that her meddling could have put the public in danger. […]
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Key Rail Tunnel Under Hudson Could Derail By Next Week Without Federal Funds
Elected officials, hardhats and transit advocates from both sides of the Hudson River pleaded with President Donald Trump Tuesday to keep the country’s largest public-works project from derailing as soon as next week. Construction on the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey is set to grind to a halt by […]
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Mamdani Names Former Biden Official as Environmental Protection Commissioner
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced Lisa Garcia as the new commissioner of the city Department of Environmental Protection. In addition, Mamdani announced Sharun Goodwin as commissioner of the Department of Probation and Yume Kitasei as the commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. “Each of these New Yorkers shares a common commitment to […]
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How NYC Schools Handled a Remote Snow Day
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As Bronx social studies teacher Seth Gilman sipped his coffee and prepared to log on for a day of virtual teaching, he was met with an error message. At first, he worried it would be a repeat of a disastrous pivot to remote learning during a […]
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Climbing Bus Stop Mountain: Snowfall Makes a Mess of Wheeled Commutes
In the aftermath of a winter storm that belted New York City with more than 10 inches of snow, officials said hundreds of bus shelters and stops were still snowed in, forcing commuters to scale slushy mounds Monday before going on their way. The piles created by the city’s biggest snowfall in five years were, […]
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