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Labor Powerhouse Backs the Other Adams, and Mayor’s Power Over Transit

DC 37 members cheer at their Lower Manhattan union headquarters during the public sector workers’ endorsement of Council Speaker Adrienne Adams for mayor.

This article is adapted from our April 24 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Earlier in the election season, we wrote about the role endorsements play in local races and whether they can really make or break a candidate. Now, we’re seeing those themes […]

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City College Cops Pepper Spray Students Setting Up ‘Liberated Zone’

Pro-Palestinian students protest at City College, April 24, 2025.

CUNY public safety officers and the NYPD quickly quashed an attempt by students to establish a ‘Liberated Zone’ on the quad of City College of New York on Thursday afternoon. A group of several dozen pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus announced they’d set up a “liberated zone” around 2 p.m. but were swiftly confronted by […]

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CUNY’s Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump Administration

Pedestrians walk past the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health on 125th Street in Central Harlem.

THE CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. Dr. Denis Nash was at an HIV conference in San Francisco last month when rumors began to swirl that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was canceling research grants awarded to universities across the country to study vaccines or vaccine […]

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Vacant Affordable Apartments to Now Skip Lottery and Be Filled on First-Come, First-Served Basis

A new residential building along Atlantic Avenue in Clinton Hill advertised apartments for rent.

Renting vacated, affordable apartments through the city’s housing lottery is about to get easier — but you’ll have to be fast to nab one. For the next year, the city’s housing department will waive bureaucratic rules on how landlords have to get new tenants into empty affordable-housing units.  Starting May 1 through April 30, 2026, […]

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More Than 5,000 People Are on a NY State Police Gang Database That’s Talking to ICE

This story was published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent, investigative news site covering New York state and city politics. Sign up for their newsletter here. As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang members and expels them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal […]

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