Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
LISTEN: ‘They Closed the Door and Blocked the Glass and We Heard This Man Screaming in Agony’
Just two lawyers have remained inside 26 Federal Plaza every day as it’s become the epicenter of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda in New York City, with “large masked men with guns” stationed outside of courtrooms to drag away people showing up for civil hearings. Allison Cutler and Benjamin Remy of the New York […]
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Rent Hike for Some Voucher Tenants Starts, Spurred by Mayor Adams
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has moved ahead with a controversial rule change that will increase the share working families with housing vouchers will have to pay in rent. The change affects CityFHEPS, a rental assistance program used by tens of thousands of New Yorkers who have been homeless or at risk of losing housing. Starting […]
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An Acoustic Playground Gets Dirty on the Gowanus Canal
This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. For anyone who hasn’t been to the Gowanus Canal lately, the scene may come as a shock: Tall apartment buildings line the banks of […]
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Notorious Rikers Detainee Slashes Two Guards
Two Emergency Services Unit correction officers were slashed by a detainee with a long history of violence during a routine transfer at Rikers Island Wednesday night. Oliver Sundance, 30, used a one-inch ceramic scalpel blade — a weapon scanning devices are unable to detect — to attack the two officers at the North Infirmary Command […]
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School Safety Agents to Be Overseen by NYPD’s First Deputy Commissioner
After considering shifting oversight of school safety agents to the office of Chief of Department John Chell, the NYPD is instead placing the division under the office of first deputy commissioner Tania Kinsella, department officials and a department source said. The decision was finalized after THE CITY reported last week, based on multiple sources, that […]
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