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Trump Crew Cheers New NYC Gas Pipeline Without Hochul, Who Handed It to Them

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright attend a Williams Pipeline groundbreaking at Floyd Bennett Field

Trump administration officials took a victory lap Tuesday in Brooklyn to celebrate a natural gas pipeline that would serve customers in New York City and Long Island. But Gov. Kathy Hochul, whose environmental agency greenlit a key permit for the pipeline after three previous rejections, was a no-show at the event. The Northeast Supply Enhancement […]

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Never Mind Mamdani: Wall Street Doubles Down on NYC

Earlier this month, real estate giant RXR and its partner TF Cornerstone filed for a permit to tear down the Grand Hyatt Hotel famously built by Donald Trump and replace it with a 95-story office building that will cost $6.5 billion to construct. The project won City Council approval back in 2021, but is finally […]

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NYCHA Offers New Carrot to 24 Seniors Blocking $1.2 Billion Manhattan Project

NYCHA resident Yu Zhen Story spoke about being forced to move from her Chelsea Addition home,

The city housing authority offered a new concession to 24 elderly tenants who are holding up a contentious $1.2 billion plan to raze and rebuild several dilapidated Manhattan public housing developments, giving the holdouts the option of transferring to senior housing similar to their current home.  Two-dozen residents at Chelsea Addition, ranging in age from […]

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New Cooling Tower Testing Rules Aim to Quell Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreaks

New York City property owners with working cooling towers — the cylinder rooftop structures spiking the city’s skyline — will soon be required to step up their testing for the Legionella bacterium. It’s the city’s latest effort to prevent outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease, which killed at least seven people in Harlem last summer. A spokesman […]

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Mamdani Embraces Socialist ‘Pothole Politics’ in Queens Barn Burner

City workers and supporters packed into the Knockdown Center in Queens to hear Mayor Zohran Mamdani deliver an address about his first 100 days in office,

Mayor Zohran Mamdani filled a cavernous venue in Maspeth, Queens on Sunday with thousands of supporters and city workers to mark his first 100 days in office and continue building the popular support that led him there. In a 35-minute speech, the city’s 112th mayor put the spotlight on the employees who keep the city […]

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