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Bronx Community College Track and Field to Get $4 Million Renovation
Bronx Community College and borough officials on Monday announced that the school’s Ohio Field will see major upgrades. A total of $4 million in city and state capital funding will be used to “transform the entire baseball field, soccer field, and track,” according to a press release from the City University of New York school. […]
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Black Home Mortgage Borrowers Pay More in NYC, New Study Finds
Three major banks charged Black homeowners in New York City more interest on their mortgages than they did white borrowers, according to a new analysis of loan data by The New Economy Project, a racial and economic justice advocacy group. At Bank of America, Citibank and JP Morgan Chase, white borrowers received interest rates of […]
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LISTEN: The Case for Voting “Yes” to the Big Question on the Back of Your Ballot
Sasha Ahuja, the campaign director of New Yorkers for Equal Rights, makes the case for voting “yes” on Proposition 1 — and explains what the update to the state constitution would and would not do. Then hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss whether it’s too soon to count out Eric Adams as […]
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‘City of Yes’ Housing Development Proposal Gets Council Grilling
Mayor Eric Adams’ proposal to change land use rules across the five boroughs to promote housing construction is both sweeping and modest, officials leading the effort told City Council members Monday in the first of two public hearings. Department of City Planning Commissioner Dan Gardonick and Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Adolfo Carrión […]
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At Comic Con, New York City Is the Main Character
As commuters shuffled onto the G train Thursday morning, a woman mumbled a “sorry” — she had accidentally bumped into Deadpool’s swords. That can mean only one thing: Comic Con has come again to New York City. First held in 2006, New York Comic Con is an annual multi-day festival at the Javits Center in […]
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