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Food Banks Tighten Their Belts as Federal Cuts Keep Coming. Patrons Don’t Know Where Else to Turn.
On a recent Wednesday, the line began to form around the corner of 116th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard by 3 p.m., an hour before the Food Bank for New York City Pantry and Community Kitchen opened for a free dinner. “What time is it?” chef Sheri Jefferson, 60, asked just after 4. Calmly but […]
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Food Banks Tighten Their Belts as Federal Cuts Keep Coming. Patrons Don’t Know Where Else to Turn
On a recent Wednesday, the line began to form around the corner of 116th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard by 3 p.m., an hour before the Food Bank for New York City Pantry and Community Kitchen opened for a free dinner. “What time is it?” chef Sheri Jefferson, 60, asked just after 4. Calmly but […]
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Adams Administration Inks Executive Order Allowing ICE Back on Rikers Island
New York City First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reestablish an office on Rikers Island, rolling back a provision of the city’s sanctuary protections that had been on the books for more than a decade. Mastro’s order cited “transnational gangs such as MS-13 and Tren […]
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Trump Org’s Bid to Run Wollman Rink Gets Growing Pushback From Manhattan Reps
With the Trump Organization vying to run Wollman Rink in Central Park, 19 elected officials on Tuesday asked Mayor Eric Adams to halt the bidding process and reconsider a proposed $120 million gift by the park’s nonprofit conservancy to refurbish and run the facility that his administration shot down last fall. In a letter to […]
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Councilmember’s Cop Bite Charges Dismissed After She Undergoes Restorative Justice
A Brooklyn judge dismissed the assault charges against Councilmember Susan Zhuang, the South Brooklyn Democrat who bit a police officer in a scuffle in her district against a forthcoming homeless shelter last summer. In a courtroom Tuesday morning, Assistant District Attorney David Ingle said Zhuang and NYPD Deputy Chief Frank DiGiacomo had taken part in […]
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