Ten years of tap sample data published by THE CITY shows that 35% of collected drinking water samples contain some lead, and no level of lead in drinking water is safe. New York City has long touted its supply as the “Champagne of Drinking Water” thanks to nearly 2,000 miles of protected reservoirs upstate.  However, […]

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Growing up here, I think I’ve always been aware of the water system but not that consciously. I had seen the Central Park Reservoir, and we had friends up  in Westchester, near Kensico, so there were little bits and pieces. There was a sewer — what turned out to be some kind of sewer plant […]

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Mayor Eric Adams on Friday worked to distance the work of his administration from the former staffers indicted this week on more bribery charges, but stopped short of condemning any of their alleged behavior.  He also insisted that he had nothing to do with  campaign volunteer, former staffer and longtime ally Winnie Greco giving a […]

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Tian Ji Li, a businessman and entrepreneur in Flushing, was seated next to Eric Adams at a table in a banquet hall on July 2, 2021, just days after Adams won the Democratic primary for mayor. It was a victory celebration thrown by a coalition of business and cultural groups known as the Alliance of […]

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A corruption indictment unveiled by Manhattan prosecutors Thursday alleges what safe street advocates have long suspected: that a behind-the-scenes pay-to-play scheme involving an influential Greenpoint family and Mayor Eric Adams’ most powerful aide wrecked improvements to the neighborhood’s deadliest street.    Now, two years since the city’s Department of Transportation watered down its own plan for […]

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