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Food Vendors Ditch Noisy Generators as City Explores Cleaner Power Options
For the last 25 years, Elsayed ‘Mando’ Elgammal has sold halal food from his cart in front of LaGuardia Community College. Like most food vendors in New York City, Mando depended on a small Honda generator to power his refrigerator, gyro machine, deep fryer and lights during his 10-hour shifts. That was until 2023, when […]
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City Commits $45 Million to Redo Dangerous Three-Way Intersection in The Bronx
The Department of Design and Construction approved a $45 million contract for one of the city’s longest stalled plans to reconstruct a corridor of dangerous intersections in The Bronx, according to a post published in the City Record on Tuesday. The reconstruction, first proposed 17 years ago, is intended to reshape an area of West […]
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Midtown Office Building Shooter Slays Four
Four people including a NYPD officer were killed and another person was in critical condition after a shooter stormed a Midtown office building on Monday evening. The suspected shooter is also dead, city officials said. One of the victims was Didarul Islam, a 36-year-old off-duty police officer in the 47th Precinct in The Bronx who […]
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Campaign Board Voided $1 in Every $3 Eric Adams Submitted for Matching Funds
Campaign finance officials could not verify the billing address of more than 200 credit card contributions Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign has submitted for public matching funds, raising questions about the true source of many of his donations. In its reviews of the campaign’s requests, the Campaign Finance Board deemed as invalid all 222 of […]
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Staten Island Swapping Buses with Other Boroughs in Bid to Boost Service
Staten Island’s bus service is getting a boost, with newer rides replacing close to half of the borough’s fleet by the middle of next year, MTA officials said Monday. Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials said the newer reinforcements for Staten Island are arriving at the expense of bus service elsewhere in the city, with […]
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