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Mamdani Totes ‘Tin Cup’ to Albany as Tax and Deficit Talks Loom

Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined Gov. Kathy Hochul at the Bedford Armory for a press conference about cutting bureaucratic red tape for construction projects,

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will head to Albany Wednesday for the annual ritual of formally asking state legislators for more money for the city, just weeks after a very public plea for more funds. The so-called “Tin Cup Day” sojourn is his first as mayor, and he’s expected to face skeptical lawmakers who’ll grill him on […]

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Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Reach Tentative Agreement to End Strike

Striking nurses march from Grand Central to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Midtown office to call on her to help pressure hospital executives into reaching an agreement,

The New York State Nurses Association and NewYork-Presbyterian reached a tentative agreement on raises, staffing and on-the-job safety to end its strike, the union announced late Tuesday night. The tentative deal at NYP, the last of the three hospital systems where nurses have been on strike since Jan. 12, will likely put an end to […]

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Deaths Likely Due to Cold Rise to 22 Including Those Found At Private Residences

Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol, left, Department Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park and NYPD Strategic Initiatives Deputy Commissioner Alex Crohn testify at a Council hearing on the city’s response to the snowstorm and freezing temperatures,

The city’s Medical Examiner is investigating 22 deaths attributed to the recent cold snap, a number which includes 15 people found dead outdoors and another seven found at private residences who are also confirmed to have died of hypothermia. Those seven people’s deaths did not appear to have been tallied before Tuesday and a spokesperson […]

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Mamdani to Rescind New Rule That Would Have Restricted Shelter Access

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Office of Emergency Management headquarters in Brooklyn ahead of an expected snowstorm,

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is rescinding a new rule set in motion by his predecessor that would have made it harder for people to get off the streets and into shelters.  In a statement Tuesday morning, Matt Rauschenbach, a spokesperson for the mayor, said the city had reviewed the rule — which would have required people […]

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ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza

Federal agents block a door to an immigrant-detention center inside 26 Federal Plaza,

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate, secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, attorneys for the Trump administration admitted in federal court Monday. A judge’s order last summer mandated capacity […]

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