Exactly one year after the passage of its hard-fought City of Yes revamp of the city’s land use rules, the Adams administration is taking a victory lap, trumpeting the 130,000 housing units that could potentially be built because of those changes and five major neighborhood rezonings it enacted in its four years in office. But […]

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he will not continue sweeps of homeless encampments — which city data shows have not yielded any permanent or supportive-housing referrals in more than a year. Advocates slept outside City Hall on Wednesday night to protest the crackdowns, which Mayor Eric Adams began at the start of his administration. Asked […]

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The office of State Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday announced that it will not pursue criminal charges against two NYPD officers who last year shot and killed a 19-year-old who was experiencing a mental health crisis in his Queens home.  Within two minutes of arriving at the teen’s home in Ozone Park on March […]

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Mount Sinai Hospital disciplined three nurses who spoke to the media and to fellow staff about safety concerns following an attempted shooting in the hospital’s emergency department last month — a consequence their union calls unlawful. The New York State Nurses Association alleges that Mount Sinai’s decision to write up two nurses and suspend another […]

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Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY. The agents, including Homeland Security Investigations officers along with others wearing jackets emblazoned only with “POLICE,” were there with a “search and seizure […]

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