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Key Vote in Manhattan: Stay in Traditional Public Housing, or Try a New Path

The sun reflects off NYCHA's Isaacs Houses buildings in Yorksville

Residents in a public housing development in Yorkville are facing a pivotal choice: remain under current federal funding known as Section 9, or enter into a new arrangement to help secure the billions of dollars the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) needs in repairs. Stanley Isaacs Houses is the first development in Manhattan to […]

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ICE Has Doubled Its Presence in Notorious Brooklyn Jail

Congressional Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) leaves the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after inspecting conditions of for detained immigrants

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now holding immigrants in two different cell blocks inside of the Metropolitan Detention Center, a hulking federal jail in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.   That news came from Rep. Dan Goldman, whose district encompasses the prison and who toured the facility for the first time on Wednesday, speaking to several detainees who had […]

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LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’

Mamdani swept into City Hall on hopes and dreams of making the city affordable, and the key to affordability in New York City is housing. People are not moving out of New York City because the bus fare is three dollars. People are moving out because they can’t afford the rent. Child care is too […]

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Gateway Work to Restart With Millions Restored by Feds After Trump Cutoff

Gateway Tunnel construction was underway beneath Hudson Yards,

Construction on a new rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey is back on track. The Trump administration on Wednesday morning released the remainder of funding that it had withheld since last fall on the project to replace a vital East Coast rail link that daily carries more than 200,000 Amtrak and New Jersey […]

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rikers? We Asked 4 Experts for Their Ideas

Barbed wire surrounds a jail facility on Rikers Island,

Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same dysfunction that prompted a court’s intervention nearly a decade ago.  “The reform effort continues to progress at a glacial pace,” said monitor Steve Martin, citing entrenched resistance and “pervasive poor practices.” A new team — Nicholas […]

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