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3 NYC Casino Plans Approved by State Board Ahead of Final Decision at Year’s End
The final three contenders for a lucrative downstate casino license were all approved by the state’s Gaming Facility Location Board on Monday. The winners — Bally’s Corporation in The Bronx, and Metropolitan Park and Resorts World in Queens — now advance to the final round of approvals before they can officially begin building and operating […]
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Corona Plaza Vendors Cast Adrift After Adams Lost Interest
Two years ago, street vendors returned to Corona Plaza in diminished numbers after a sweeping crackdown by the Sanitation Department on the Queens public square earlier that summer upended their livelihoods. The energetic but unregulated market that drew neighborhood complaints was no more, and in its place came what Mayor Eric Adams called the city’s […]
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How New York Families Can Save for College — and How Some Have $100 Already
Costs of college are rising in New York, and across the U.S. How will you pay for it? If you have a child in fourth grade or younger in a New York City public school, they probably already have a college savings account. How? Because of NYC Kids Rise, which starting in 2021 set up […]
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NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation
The NYPD arrested more than a dozen people and unleashed clouds of pepper spray on a spontaneous protest formed around a SoHo parking garage where masked agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had gathered inside. It’s unclear exactly what the federal agents had planned for Saturday. Around 11 a.m the agents began staging […]
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Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge
A 28-year-old Queens construction worker was headed to work one morning in early November when a man came up to him dressed in a blue vest that said “POLICE” on it. The Central American man, whose name THE CITY is withholding, said he wanted to help, concerned the officer was investigating a crime in his […]
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