In February federal prosecutors unsealed a scathing indictment charging that the founder of a nonprofit that ran a government-funded pandemic program placing released inmates in hotels had received a wide variety of bribes, including envelopes stuffed with cash and a $1.3 million townhouse in Washington Heights. And then there was the shiny black $107,000 Mercedes. […]

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This article first appeared in our Tuesday, Sept. 16 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. In the spring, polls by and large showed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo winning in the primary. That didn’t come to pass, and as the general election approaches, more mayoral polls continue to […]

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Living in President Vladimir Putin’s regime as journalists and activists, the Russian couple had every reason to believe that seeking political asylum in the United States would lead them to safety, a reprieve from long prison sentences or being sent to fight in Ukraine. Their journey since has delivered them to months locked in jail, […]

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The odds of Mayor Eric Adams remaining at City Hall for another four years appear, at the moment, to be low. Far closer to certain is that he’ll still be in power for the next four months. Enter Empower NYC, an independent spending group that has raised nearly $1.5 million to back Adams’ longshot run […]

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Drivers of for-hire vehicles pushed the City Council for relief Monday through a proposed law that would allow them to park in commercial spaces when nature calls. More than 82,000 drivers go behind the wheel daily on city streets for app-based ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, according to Taxi and Limousine Commission data, but […]

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