Asking New Yorkers to step up and save water during a historically dry autumn, Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday declared a drought watch. Rain in October and November typically helps refill the upstate reservoirs that provide New York City’s drinking water. But the reservoirs are at about 65.9% capacity, compared to a typical 76.6% capacity. […]

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Headed into Election Day, a near record number of New Yorkers have already voted early.  According to the city Board of Elections’ unofficial tally, 1,089,328 voters cast ballots in the early voting period, which ran from Oct. 26 through Nov. 3.  That’s just shy of the 1.1 million early voters that turned out in 2020, […]

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At last week’s rally at Madison Square Garden, Donald Trump yet again pledged to “launch the largest deportation program in American history.” According to him, deporting millions of immigrants, including those who are undocumented and those who are here legally, will free up millions of jobs, especially for Black and Hispanic Americans.  The Republican presidential […]

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A new holistic reproductive health center in the northwest Bronx is providing wellness services to people giving birth in a borough with few options for that type of care.  The clinic, called Maryam, opened its doors in March and has been slowly ramping up services. Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, who has made combatting maternal […]

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Sheena Wright has resigned from her position as one of Mayor Eric Adams’ appointees to the board of the New York City Housing Authority, THE CITY has learned. Wright, one of several top Adams’ aides caught up in ongoing federal investigations of corruption at City Hall, put in her resignation letter from the board on […]

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