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City Council Staffer Denied Bond, Deemed ‘Danger to Society’
An immigration judge on Monday denied bond to a Venezuelan City Council staffer being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention upstate. Immigration Judge Charles Conroy, who has one of the lowest asylum grant rates in New York City held a 20-minute hearing Monday morning at the Varick Street immigration court. He then denied Rafael […]
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Getting Burned on Home Heating Oil? More Than Half of Firms Failed Inspections
This story was produced in conjunction with the NYCity News Service and with the support of the Equity Through Data Projectat the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. About half of the companies that deliver home heating oil to New Yorkers failed at least one inspection of truck gauges meant to ensure residents […]
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From Detainee to Commissioner: Stanley Richards to Lead City Jails
Stanley Richards, who did multiple stints on Rikers Island as a youth before going on to lead the city’s largest nonprofit assisting people who have been locked up, was announced Saturday as the city’s Correction Department commissioner by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Richards takes over the department at a pivotal moment. Last week, a federal judge […]
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This 85-Year-Old Tugboat Is Why You’re Not Freezing Right Now
It was frigid on Thursday when the Shoofly — a 64-foot 1941 tugboat forged with American steel – set out along the Newtown Creek to carve up the ice sheets blocking barges from getting through. The ice parted soundlessly before the 78-ton vessel as it made its way past the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects industrial […]
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Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination
This article is co-reported with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Sign up for its newsletters. In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number […]
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