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Roof Painters Reflect on Their Role Fighting Climate Change

HOPE Program participants working with NYC CoolRoofs apply a reflective paint to a Flushing residential building roof

On top of a co-op building in Flushing, Queens, on a stark gray afternoon, more than two dozen workers armed with brushes and rollers applied a white coat of paint across the black roof. “It’s really for it to keep the roofs cooler, and it also makes the whole building cooler as well,” said Domonique […]

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The Little Syria Tour Guide Bridging NYC’s First Muslim Settler and Mayoral Hopeful Zohran Mamdani

Asad Dandia gives a tour of where Little Syria existed before it was demolished to make way for the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in Lower Manhattan.

The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633.  Six years later, the Dutch and North African rabble-rouser, who’d become one of the largest landowners in what was then New Amsterdam, was banished to the hinterlands of Brooklyn for a litany of colorful misdeeds, including paying wages with a dead […]

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Mayoral Candidates Combat Cuomo, Vie for Debate Stage With Just Weeks Left

With just weeks to go before early voting in the June primary for mayor, new campaign disclosures show the Democratic field’s fundraising coalescing around five candidates — with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo advancing a juggernaut and rivals amassing resources to stand out on the ranked-choice ballot. After a sputtering start, the disclosures filed Friday with […]

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House Republicans Just Dealt a Blow to Wind Developers

Off-shore wind turbines create energy.

This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. Renewable energy advocates received some small wins from the Trump administration on offshore wind development. But the House-passed budget reconciliation bill could present a new set of problems. The bill that passed […]

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Your Borough’s Mini-Mayors on the Ballot

This article is adapted from our May 22 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Beep beep, new BPs coming through! Among the many other elections in next month’s primary — dozens of City Council seats, district attorneys, the comptroller, and of course the mayor […]

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