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Mamdani Moves to End Rikers Emergency Orders, Implement Solitary Reforms
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a plan Thursday to end nearly five years of emergency orders that have suspended basic jail rules at Rikers Island. But some reforms — including limits on solitary confinement — won’t take effect for nearly a year, and others require court approval. The action plan lays out how the city will […]
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Mamdani Promised a New Era for Parks and Libraries. His First Budget Falls Short.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into office on a wave of progressive promises, including pledges to boost funding for parks and public libraries. But his first major spending plan falls short on both fronts, raising early questions about when — or whether — those campaign commitments will materialize. The preliminary budget released Tuesday keeps funding for […]
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Key Vote in Manhattan: Stay in Traditional Public Housing, or Try a New Path
Residents in a public housing development in Yorkville are facing a pivotal choice: remain under current federal funding known as Section 9, or enter into a new arrangement to help secure the billions of dollars the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) needs in repairs. Stanley Isaacs Houses is the first development in Manhattan to […]
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ICE Has Doubled Its Presence in Notorious Brooklyn Jail
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now holding immigrants in two different cell blocks inside of the Metropolitan Detention Center, a hulking federal jail in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. That news came from Rep. Dan Goldman, whose district encompasses the prison and who toured the facility for the first time on Wednesday, speaking to several detainees who had […]
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LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’
Mamdani swept into City Hall on hopes and dreams of making the city affordable, and the key to affordability in New York City is housing. People are not moving out of New York City because the bus fare is three dollars. People are moving out because they can’t afford the rent. Child care is too […]
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