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How Adams Insiders Scored a Traffic Technology Tryout for a Favored Company
In 2019, a company called BusPatrol tried to sell the administration of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio on a system of school bus traffic enforcement cameras that would target scofflaw drivers who ignore the stop signs that swing out during pick-ups and drop-offs of children. The city Department of Transportation wasn’t interested, at one point stating […]
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What Congestion Pricing and Measles Mean for NYC’s Health
This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Congestion pricing and measles outbreaks are making national headlines. One could change the air we breathe, the other reminds us how tragic infectious disease outbreaks can be. Both have implications for New York. Here’s what you need to know. […]
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LISTEN: ‘Sometimes People Just Get Beaten to Death’
There’s an eerily direct line from horrified art students witnessing Transit Police beating Michael Stewart into a coma in 1983 ito Eric Adams being elected mayor — one that intersects with Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Lee and Tucker Carlson. Journalist Elon Green, the author of The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael […]
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Mayor Adams Mostly Spared Republican Wrath at House Hearing on Sanctuary Laws
A House committee questioned Mayor Eric Adams and three other leaders of so-called sanctuary cities on Wednesday on their willingness to cooperate with Trump administration immigration policy — but Republicans generally focused their ire on Boston, Denver and Chicago. Yet while Adams was spared the toughest questioning by GOP members of the House Oversight Committee, […]
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From our director: Sponsors of THE CITY
Readers of THE SCOOP likely noticed sponsorship messages in the newsletter recently. And we heard from some fans of our work who did not like the change. To them, we want to share this context about corporate sponsorships with THE CITY: It’s no secret that traditional models for funding quality journalism have collapsed in recent […]
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