Fifteen home health aides started what they called an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday after the City Council failed to advance a bill banning 24-hour shifts, an issue that has roiled the mostly immigrant women working in the home care industry and the vulnerable patients who rely on their round-the-clock care. For more than a […]

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Around 11 p.m. one night in January, a Long Island couple was driving back to their home in Hicksville when Nassau County police pulled them over for having a suspended registration. The officers searched the car and claimed to have found drugs inside.  The couple was held overnight at the precinct. The next morning, police […]

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A federal judge said she is “very, very troubled” by a pattern of errors and foot-dragging by city lawyers in a class-action lawsuit over in vitro fertilization benefits for gay men covered by the city’s health plan.  The suit, filed in May 2024, alleges the city is violating the rights of gay male employees and […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday will unveil a city-backed insurance program for subsidized and rent-stabilized buildings across the five boroughs.  The privately run, not-yet-launched program — which Mamdani will announce at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council’s annual luncheon in the afternoon — aims to issue property and liability insurance policies for buildings covering 20,000 […]

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City Council Speaker Julie Menin is backing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s nominee to run the Department of Investigation a day ahead of what some expected to be a close confirmation vote. The speaker’s support for former Brooklyn federal prosecutor Nadia Shihata became crucial after she came under fire at a contentious hearing where Council members questioned […]

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