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Job-Promoting Tax Breaks Are on the Brink of Blowing Up
Real estate interests and their allies downtown and outside Manhattan are making a final push to renew a decades-old tax break before the state legislature adjourns next week.The Relocation and Employment Assistance Program, or REAP, has existed for years but will expire June 30 unless the Senate and Assembly pass legislation renewing it. REAP was […]
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Video of NYPD Pursuit Shows Cops Abandoning Site of Deadly Crash
After NYPD cops chased a vehicle that crashed and burst into flames early on a morning in April, the officers drove past the vehicle with the victim still inside — and continued driving, video of the fatal crash obtained by THE CITY shows. The crash and flames killed 31-year-old Francisco Guzman Parra, whom officers from […]
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Cuomo Claimed These NYCHA Tenant Leaders Endorsed Him. They Say They Never Did.
Jeannette Salcedo is still mulling over who to endorse in the mayor’s race. So Salcedo, the resident association president at NYCHA’s Castle Hill Houses in The Bronx, was taken aback when someone asked her about an Instagram post from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s account with her name on it, indicating she’d endorsed him for mayor. […]
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TLC Finally Hits 50% Accessibility Target After Years of Delays
After years of missed deadlines, the city has finally met a legal commitment to make 50% of the yellow taxis on the road wheelchair accessible. Taxi & Limousine Commission officials and advocates for New Yorkers with disabilities on Thursday hailed the latest development in a long-running federal class-action case — whose landmark 2013 settlement initially […]
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A Powerful Bronx Politician Dines on Developers’ Double Donations
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. As chair of the New York City Council’s Land Use Committee, Rafael Salamanca has the power to determine whether development projects live or die — and it’s made him a magnet for campaign donations […]
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