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Mamdani Takes the Helm as City’s New Mayor
Zohran Mamdani was sworn in just after midnight Thursday as New York City’s 112th mayor and the youngest in more than a century, taking the oath of office inside the old City Hall subway station. Mamdani rode a southbound No. 6 train with family and supporters into a historic station opened in 1904 and decommissioned […]
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Zohran Mamdani to Tap Kamar Samuels as NYC Schools Chancellor
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to tap Kamar Samuels, a Manhattan superintendent, to run New York City’s public school system, according to a transition committee member briefed by administration officials. As the superintendent of Manhattan’s District 3, Samuels supervises schools with […]
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Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold
Patrick Over reached for two white sacks in his bag as he ducked into a city Department of Parks and Recreation seed lab on Staten Island, letting in a rush of low-40-degree cold as he entered on a late-November day. “How’d it go?” asked Lucy Rubino, 44, director of the Plant Ecology Center and Nursery, […]
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Mamdani Takes Health Fund Audit ‘Seriously’ as Insolvency Reverberates
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said on Tuesday he takes “seriously” an audit that determined a key fund that pays insurance premiums for city workers, retirees and their dependents is insolvent. He also sought to reassure city workers concerned about what the bombshell findings by Comptroller Brad Lander may mean for their health care. Lander’s probe, released […]
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Hochul Grants Two Clemencies After Months of Inaction, Leaving Hundreds Still Waiting
Some of the most powerful actors in New York’s criminal justice system — district attorneys, prison superintendents and even the judges who imposed the original sentences — have urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to grant clemency to people serving decades behind bars. Until this week, she hadn’t freed a single one. On Tuesday afternoon, Hochul issued […]
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