José Valdez worked doing deliveries for Grubhub for more than four years, zipping on his e-bike across lower Manhattan — accruing, he said, stellar customer ratings. He’d never received a complaint in his time working for the app, his main source of income. But last week, he said, his account was locked out of his […]

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A longtime community advocate employed in the administration of Mayor Eric Adams was fired on Thursday after he posted critical remarks about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk a day following Kirk’s fatal shooting in Utah on Wednesday. On his Facebook account, Tony Herbert reposted a meme that said: “CHARLIE KIRK SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE DISPARAGING IMMIGRANTS, […]

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The city’s police watchdog group has recommended a slew of misconduct charges against two cops who shot a 19-year-old to death inside his Queens home last year, a case that sparked widespread outrage and scrutiny of the NYPD response to mental health calls. The Civilian Complaint Review Board on Wednesday concluded Officers Salvatore Alongi and […]

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A Venezuelan man from The Bronx told THE CITY that he has begun a hunger strike to protest that immigration authorities have jailed him for more than seven months, despite multiple court rulings ordering his release. Several judges have pointedly rejected government claims that the man, whom THE CITY will identify as Jose H., due […]

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The City Council on Wednesday voted to approve four bills aimed at strengthening on-the-job protections for street vendors and app-based grocery delivery workers — overriding vetoes by Mayor Eric Adams of three of those bills while passing a new one.  A supermajority of Council members first approved three of the bills in votes in July and […]

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