Reading List
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Prefab Potty Hyped as Fast and Cheap Is Years Late, Will Cost NYC $3.5M
Since 2022, city officials — flush with excitement — have been touting a modular bathroom planned for the busy Discovery Playground in Fort Washington Park as a faster, cheaper way to build public restrooms. The new prototype will be “less expensive to build and can be installed more quickly and with less disruption,” members of […]
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Rat-ical Idea: City Council Mulls Ban on Rodent Glue Traps
After years of hard-fought battle, the city may finally be entering an era of rat harmony — or closer to it. Newly elected Councilmember Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan) recently introduced a bill to outlaw the sale of glue traps aimed at mice and rats in the city. The traps are small boards covered with an adhesive […]
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LISTEN: The Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’
There’s a startling occupation listed in entry 983 of the death ledger for the town of Newtown, Queens covering the years 1881-1897: “The Last Slave.” Department of Records Associate Commissioner Kenneth Cobb and Research Associate Marcia Kirk visited Lit NYC to explain how the Municipal Archives found that entry, what they’ve learned since then about […]
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MTA Pushes Crash Insurance Reform to Stop Flimsy Claims on Transit Coffers
The head of the MTA said Friday that the transportation authority and its riders are being taken for a nearly $50 million ride each year as a result of questionable claims from so-called billboard lawyers who “seem to think the MTA is actually spelled ATM.” Chairperson and chief executive Janno Lieber pointed to a new […]
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Advocates Demand Answers as State Prisons Face Scrutiny After Deaths
A coalition of more than 50 advocacy organizations is urging New York lawmakers to scrutinize the state’s prison system, pressing for answers about alleged brutality, deaths behind bars and violations of solitary confinement reforms as the legislature weighs more than $4 billion in funding. The push for reforms comes amid renewed scrutiny of the correctional […]
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