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Comptroller Wins Owed Wages for Underpaid Construction and Building Workers
Three construction firms subcontracted by city agencies and Con Edison failed to pay workers their full required wages so have agreed to pay six figures in back pay and penalties, under settlements announced by Comptroller Brad Lander Thursday. The city comptroller also penalized a Brooklyn apartment developer and ordered the firm to provide $90,000 in […]
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NYC Schools Get $2 Billion From Washington. Here’s What’s at Risk if Trump Defunds the DOE.
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Mahmoud Khalil Supporters Throng Court as Civil Rights Lawyers Plead His Case
The Palestinian green card-holding graduate student detained by immigration authorities for his pro-Palestinian activism will remain in a Louisiana immigration jail at least through early next week, as his attorneys prepare additional paperwork following a preliminary hearing in federal court in Lower Manhattan Wednesday morning. In a procedural hearing, attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil appeared before […]
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LISTEN: ‘The Great Wound’ of a Self-Exiled Brooklyn Basketball Legend
In 1951, Frankie King of James Madison High was a Brooklyn legend, the youngest basketball player ever to make first-team all city before he withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling […]
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Divided Electorate Tells Tale of Two Cities Ahead of Mayoral Election
New Yorkers will be voting for mayor with starkly divided views of their city’s needs and who they seek as a leader — the focus of a new survey that digs into what likely voters want. Pollster John Della Volpe and his public opinion research firm SocialSphere surveyed 2,100 Democrats, Republicans and independents across the […]
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