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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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TLC Finally Hits 50% Accessibility Target After Years of Delays
After years of missed deadlines, the city has finally met a legal commitment to make 50% of the yellow taxis on the road wheelchair accessible. Taxi & Limousine Commission officials and advocates for New Yorkers with disabilities on Thursday hailed the latest development in a long-running federal class-action case — whose landmark 2013 settlement initially […]
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A Powerful Bronx Politician Dines on Developers’ Double Donations
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. As chair of the New York City Council’s Land Use Committee, Rafael Salamanca has the power to determine whether development projects live or die — and it’s made him a magnet for campaign donations […]
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NYC Mayoral Candidates Battle Each Other — and Trump — in Chaotic 9-Way Debate
The nine Democratic candidates for mayor squared off Wednesday in the first televised debate of a long campaign season, with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo the frequent target of jabs from the other contenders. The chaotic debate came 10 days before the start of early voting on June 14, with the election on June 24. It […]
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Families in Tears and Panic Outside Immigration Office as ICE Accelerates Round-Ups
Outside a nondescript office building on Elk Street in Lower Manhattan, scenes of pain and anguish unfolded on the pavement throughout Wednesday as immigrants and their family members waited to see if their loved ones would return from what had been billed as routine procedures. The basement office hosts ICE check-ins, run by private subcontractor the […]
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