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The Dog Ate My Birth Certificate and Other Tales From the Real ID Rush
Days before the long-delayed national deadline for travelers to show “REAL ID compliant” identification to board a domestic flight, people lined up outside Room 133 at a city building on Lafayette Street just north of City Hall, anxious to enter the Office of Vital Records. “What are you purchasing today?” a staffer asked Chris Morrissey, […]
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God Calling: Product of City Seminary Reflects on Pope Pick
When the late Pope Francis visited New York City in 2015, a group of students at Elmhurst’s Cathedral Prep Seminary, the only remaining high school seminary in the United States, reflected on the possibility they would one day consider the priesthood. Patrice Legoute was at the time a 15-year-old junior, who said he dreamed since […]
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Trump Budget Proposal Could Devastate New York’s Housing Landscape
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget released last week would shred New York’s housing safety net by cutting billions of dollars in federal aid, putting limits on vouchers used by some 500,000 people statewide. Landlords, especially owners of smaller rent-stabilized buildings, would suddenly find that many of their tenants could no longer pay rent, leading to […]
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Tech is Driving the NYC Economy, New Report Finds
When Kevin Ryan moved his internet startup from Atlanta to New York in 1996, it was hard for him to find a lawyer to represent the company, and landlords and banks didn’t know what to make of this new tech enterprise. But Ryan’s company, soon to be named DoubleClick, had invented a technology that allowed […]
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Parks Commissioner to Resign, Sources Say
Commissioner Sue Donoghue, who has led the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation since the start of Mayor Eric Adams’ term, will leave her post at the end of the month, multiple sources confirmed to THE CITY. Donoghue was an early appointee for Adams, coming aboard in February 2022 after years as the president of […]
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