Reading List
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Getting NYC Event Permits Is a Mess. They Want City Hall to Cut the Red Tape.
As the founder of an organization that’s staged dance performances in public across Queens since 2014, Karesia Batan has navigated the winding path for securing city permits more times than she can count. “It’s like, ‘Ok, where? Who do we call? What do you mean?’” said Batan, of the Queensboro Dance Festival, which puts on […]
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Program to Take Property From Negligent Landlords Gets Second Try in Council
A controversial program to take derelict buildings away from negligent landlords may get a revamp. The Third Party Transfer program, created in 1996, took buildings from landlords who were behind on either property taxes or water bills, and had amassed a significant amount of housing violations. Run by the city’s Department of Finance and the […]
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Councilmember Vickie Paladino Sues City Council To Block Upcoming Ethics Hearing
City Councilmember Vickie Paladino, a Republican representing parts of Queens, is suing the New York City Council — asking a state judge to step in to block an upcoming hearing where she would have to defend herself against a committee’s charge of disorderly conduct related to a series of virulently anti-Muslim tweets she fired off […]
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LISTEN: An Explosive Scene at Gracie Mansion
A police-punching Jan. 6 rioter and far-right agitator pardoned by Donald Trump showed up outside Gracie Mansion this weekend with a couple dozen supporters for a “stop the Islamic takeover of New York City” clashed with about 150 counter-protesters there to “run the Nazis out. ” And that was before two alleged ISIS sympathizers drove […]
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Mamdani and Tisch Condemn ‘ISIS-Inspired’ Bomb-Throwers at Anti-Muslim Rally
Two men accused of throwing improvised explosive devices during a protest outside Gracie Mansion on Saturday were inspired by ISIS and would be arraigned later Monday, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a briefing along with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday morning. The suspects, 18-year-old Emir Balak and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, traveled to the city […]
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