Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Newark that will nearly double the agency’s capacity to detain people in the New York City region, the agency announced in a press release late Wednesday evening. The private prison contractor The GEO Group said the 1,000 bed facility would open this […]

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Two years ago, when Mayor Eric Adams delivered a collective bargaining agreement that notched higher-than-expected raises and laid the foundation for remote work for the union representing 100,000 civil servants, their support for his 2025 reelection campaign may have appeared a foregone conclusion. Instead the disgraced mayor, citing the advice of his personal lawyers, decided […]

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An experiment to swap steam radiators for eco-friendly, electric heat pumps at a Queens public housing complex has yielded promising results, nearly two years in. The New York City Housing Authority in July 2023 installed the first electric-powered heat pumps in 12 apartments at the Woodside Houses in Queens, as THE CITY previously reported, and […]

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If you think your boss is shortchanging you, you’re not alone: an estimated 2.1 million workers in New York State are victims of wage theft annually, totalling $3.2 billion in unpaid wages and benefits, according to labor advocates.  But what exactly is wage theft? The term covers a whole range of ways an employer can […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Here’s what happened this week in New York public health and why it matters. Whiplash for the 9/11 first responder program This week, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) abruptly cut funding to an essential 9/11 first responder health […]

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