A Brooklyn businessman served as a proxy for the government of Uzbekistan to leverage  Mayor Eric Adams’ stature as the leader of the nation’s biggest city to sanitize the regime’s tarnished image, law enforcement records reviewed by THE CITY allege. To curry the mayor’s favor, the businessman, Tolib Mansurov, allegedly arranged illegal straw donations to […]

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As governor, Andrew Cuomo was the mastermind behind an unpopular reform approved in 2012 that slashed pension benefits for future public employees and raised their retirement age at 63 — while previously hired employees could retire at 62 and teachers at 55. Back then, Cuomo said the creation of the Tier 6 track put the […]

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Subway and bus riders are fuming over OMNY glitches that billed them late, kept them from tapping through turnstiles — and have them enduring lengthy waits for customer service on the MTA’s new fare-payment system. Commuters have been caught off-guard in recent weeks by bugs that, in some cases, have charges showing up days late […]

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A crowd of people came out in Bedford-Stuyvesant Monday to talk about a pernicious issue in the neighborhood: property fraud, deed theft and predatory real estate speculation. THE CITY newsroom, which has completed many investigations on the topic, led a community conversation, hosted by JPMorgan Chase at their Brooklyn Community Banking Branch in Bed-Stuy, with […]

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Accessory dwelling units were among the most eagerly anticipated elements of Mayor Eric Adams’ overhaul of the city’s zoning code to spur housing production finalized late last year. But when it comes to the newly legalized ADUs — the garage, backyard, basement and attic apartments adjoining one-and two-family houses — his “City of Yes” is […]

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