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Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief
After President Trump’s transportation secretary trashed the subway as a “shithole,” baffled MTA and NYPD officials pointed to a nearly 30% drop in major transit crime from a year ago. Chief Joseph Gulotta, head of the NYPD Transit Bureau Chief conceded Monday that the subway is struggling with a safety perception problem — even as […]
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For New York Puerto Ricans, Language Matters, But Identity Runs Deeper
This story was originally published by the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Kisha Cedeño recalls being 12 years old when she first felt embarrassed by her lack of Spanish proficiency. She was in sixth grade at Juan Pablo Duarte School in Washington Heights, New York, and was assigned to write and pronounce a word in Spanish […]
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City Contracts Director Resigns Suddenly, Latest Adams Appointee to Bow Out
Yet another top aide to Mayor Eric Adams has resigned, this time the head of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS), a job the embattled mayor once described as a key player in the effort to “root out waste, fraud and abuse.” Lisa Flores, the city’s chief procurement officer as head of the office, […]
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Hochul Digs in on Home Care Switch, Despite Labor Ally’s Call for Delay
Gov. Hochul pushed back Friday on a major health union’s demand that she delay moving home care for more than 250,000 New Yorkers to a single administrator, a transition Hochul’s office says is necessary to head off “runaway costs.” Just days before an April 1 deadline for hundreds of companies to stop managing the Consumer-Directed […]
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Eyeing Mayor Adams’ Independent Option as He Lags in the Money Race
This article is adapted from our March 20 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Mayor Eric Adams has often said, when asked about his shift right politically, that he didn’t leave the party he’s currently registered in — “the Democratic Party left me.” That […]
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