A 6-year-old girl and her mother — whose arrests by ICE last week sparked widespread condemnation — were deported to Ecuador Tuesday, local elected officials said.  Martha and her 6-year-old daughter were flown to Ecuador early Tuesday morning, according to Assemblymember Catalina Cruz, who confirmed the deportation with congressional liaisons in Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s office. […]

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BronxNet, the community media center, announced on Tuesday that it laid off nine of its 69 staffers on June 18, citing a decline in subscribers and public investment and warning it might have to shut its facility in the East Bronx soon.   The press release announcing the cuts to the public affairs and education TV […]

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Far behind in the latest polls, Mayor Eric Adams is once again suing the city Campaign Finance Board (CFB), the agency that keeps denying his requests for millions of dollars of public matching funds due to what it sees as his continuing failure to address its concerns about his questionable campaign fundraising tactics. The new […]

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This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. Several blue states are considering wealth taxes to close the budget holes worsened by President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget law. New York is not among them. As Democratic legislators and governors in Minnesota […]

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A decades-delayed commitment to extend the subway into East Harlem took a significant step forward Monday when the MTA board approved a $1.9 billion contract for the next phase of construction on the Second Avenue Subway. Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared alongside MTA officials at a meeting of the transit agency’s board to tout the “transformational” […]

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