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Elevated Lead Levels in Kids at NYCHA Childcare Centers Raise Alarms
Four children in three childcare centers in New York City Housing Authority complexes had elevated levels of lead in their blood in a three-month span between October 2024 and the beginning of January, according to a federal monitor’s latest report. That compares to only three such cases across all NYCHA childcare centers in all of […]
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Plan to Rezone Midtown South for Housing Nears Council Approval
At the corner of 30th Street and Broadway, just south of Herald Square, a beaten-up four-story building contains a jewelry store on the ground floor and a flexible workspace upstairs. But if a rezoning of the area is approved by the City Council later this summer, the site is likely to be turned into a […]
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City Council Primary Winners Emerge in Ranked Choice Tally
A week after Primary Day, the city Board of Elections has released the ranked-choice results of the City Council June election. Here are the highlights: In Lower Manhattan’s District 1, pro-development advocates failed to unseat incumbent Christopher Marte, who almost clinched his win in the first round of votes — on election night — with […]
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Mamdani Clinches Democratic Primary, Widening Lead Over Cuomo in Ranked Choice Tally
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens) cemented his lead in the mayoral primary election, securing a majority of the vote after just two rounds of ranked choice tabulations, according to the Board of Elections Tuesday. The BOE first eliminated votes for write-in candidates, redistributing any ranked choices to candidates on the ballot. Then, in the next round, […]
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After 37 Years, Brooklyn Man Finally Exonerated for a Murder He Says He Didn’t Commit
For more than 30 years, Brian Kendall has insisted he and a few friends were simply playing video games inside a Flatbush game room after school when a man wearing a hoodie casually strolled in and fatally shot a clerk in the head. That was in 1988. Kendall, who was 17 at the time, and […]
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