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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rikers? We Asked 4 Experts for Their Ideas
Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same dysfunction that prompted a court’s intervention nearly a decade ago. “The reform effort continues to progress at a glacial pace,” said monitor Steve Martin, citing entrenched resistance and “pervasive poor practices.” A new team — Nicholas […]
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Gateway Work Still Paused as Hardhats and Pols Beg Trump Admin for Full Funds
On a typical Tuesday morning, hardhats would have been at work on the Manhattan gateway to the country’s largest infrastructure project — and not caught in the middle of a political fight between President Donald Trump and New York and New Jersey. “Pouring concrete, digging, excavating, a little of everything,” said Guido Rivieccio, 49, of […]
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Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be able to appoint six members to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him a majority of appointees to deliver his signature campaign proposal of a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments. Alex Armlovich, a member of the board who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to a four-year term that runs through […]
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Mamdani Threatens Blanket Property Tax Hike as ‘Last Resort’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented a “last resort” option of raising the property tax rate to close an estimated $5.4 billion budget gap, as Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to resist raising taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations. “We remain firmly in a budget crisis. It is a crisis that we can and will overcome — […]
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Rides Through Apps Are Wheelchair-Accessible Only 7% of the Time: Report
A new report flags how the shortfall of wheelchair-accessible vehicles from the app-based ride-hailing giants subjects New Yorkers with disabilities to longer wait times. The “Left Behind Across New York” report from New York Lawyers for the Public Interest notes that just 7% of nearly 106,000 for-hire vehicles licensed by the city’s Taxi & Limousine […]
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