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International Doctors Keep This Brooklyn Hospital Running. Visa Whiplash Has Jeopardized That.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Anastasiia Tsyunchyk was just finishing medical school. After her studies, she held off from starting a residency in favor of sorting medications and acting as a translator — work, she said, that was more valuable at the time, because as a resident in Ukraine she would not have been […]
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Times Square Casino Bid Faces Public Ahead of Key Vote — and It Was ‘Union Against Union’
Will a new Times Square casino bring a lot of new jobs to Midtown, or will it displace existing workers? That debate was front and center as the proposal faced a key public hearing on Wednesday. It was a full house at the Caesars Palace Community Advisory Committee hearing on the east side of Manhattan […]
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At Bronx School for Immigrants, One Teen Fights for an Education Under Trump
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Chalkbeat spent more than six months visiting ELLIS Preparatory Academy during the 2024-25 school year to understand the far-reaching effects of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy on New York City’s students. This is the first of two stories. In the hours […]
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Rikers Detainees Denied Mental Health Care They Need to Stand Trial, Suit Says
Hundreds of mentally ill people are routinely trapped on Rikers Island for months at a time without court-ordered treatment they need to stand trial, a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday afternoon by the city’s largest public defender organization charges. The New York State Office of Mental Health and top city jail officials repeatedly flout judges’ orders […]
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Judge Orders ICE to Improve Squalid Manhattan Lockup Conditions
A federal judge Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order, requiring the Trump administration to immediately improve conditions for immigrants inside the 10th floor detention area of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan as well as provide access to confidential calls for attorneys. In a written order Tuesday afternoon, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the Trump administration […]
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