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Mayor Mamdani’s housing plan for NYC, explained
From 200,000 new affordable homes to a $5.6 billion NYCHA overhaul, here’s what it means for renters.
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Leaked audio reveals NY utility officials joking about cutting power to seniors
The recording captures utility officials describing elderly and disabled customers as “tons of opportunity,” dismissing heat wave shutoff protections as “bogus,” and secretly coordinating to weaken those protections before state regulators.
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New York lawmakers, organizers visit NJ ICE facility as hunger strike continues
US Reps. Dan Goldman and Jerry Nadler conducted an oversight visit to Delaney Hall Wednesday, where roughly 300 detainees have refused food and work for five days over squalid conditions inside the facility.
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As Trump campaigns with Lawler, his district pays the price for tariffs
Small business owners across the Hudson Valley describe vanishing inventory, decreasing margins, and a congressman who keeps voting to keep the president’s tariff chaos going.
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LIRR workers reach deal after three-day strike
A tentative agreement was reached Monday evening, ending a strike that stranded 270,000 daily commuters. But workers say the MTA could have avoided the whole thing.
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Mamdani announces site of NYC’s first publicly-operated grocery store
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that the location of the city’s first publicly operated grocery chain, NYC Grocery, will open at The Peninsula in Hunts Point—on the former site of a notorious juvenile detention center.
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3,500 Long Island Rail Road workers strike, bringing the region’s transit system to a halt
Five unions walked off the job Saturday for the first time in over 30 years, halting service for 270,000 daily commuters. Now on day three, the National Mediation Board has summoned both sides back to the table.
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NY Democrats, advocates rally for moratorium on data centers
State lawmakers, environmentalists, and community members gathered in Albany to push for a three-year moratorium on new hyperscale data center construction as the legislative session nears its end.
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Mamdani’s budget plan: tax the rich, fix Adams’ mess
NYC inherited a $12 billion hole. Here’s how NYC’s mayor plans to fill it—without raising taxes.
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Gov. Hochul says New York has a budget deal. The legislature isn’t so sure
Five weeks late and still not done: the governor’s $268 billion budget announcement was immediately downplayed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and advocates say it doesn’t do enough to help working New Yorkers.
