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Columbia University Will Pay for Elevator at 125th Street Subway Stop
After more than five years of prodding from local residents, elected officials and the MTA, Columbia University will partially pay for accessibility upgrades to the No. 1 line’s towering 125th Street station, THE CITY has learned. The Ivy League school will contribute $33 million for an elevator linking the street with the stop’s mezzanine level […]
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Home Care Workers Launch Hunger Strike as 24-Hour Work Shifts Persist
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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Outside NYC’s ‘Sanctuary City,’ Local Police Routinely Collude With ICE
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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Judge Slams City in Gay Couple’s IVF Discrimination Case
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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Mamdani Floats Insurance Fix for Rent-Stabilized Buildings
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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