This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The Trump administration is canceling millions of dollars in magnet school grant funding after New York City officials missed a Tuesday deadline to overhaul their policies regarding transgender students. At stake is $36 million that city officials expected to flow to several schools over the next […]

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A surge of public lewdness arrests inside a Penn Station bathroom by Amtrak Police has rattled the LGBTQ community and landed at least one person in ICE custody, THE CITY has learned. The surge in arrests by the Amtrak Police, a national police force who are not bound by city sanctuary protections, kicked off in […]

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When someone approaches Brooklyn developer Kirk Goodrich about participating in a new project that will go through the city’s land use review procedure, the first thing he does is check which City Council member represents the area. If he doesn’t think that member will be supportive, he won’t get involved because under the doctrine of […]

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The city’s first-ever “rat czar” quietly scurried away from her post last week with the war on rats still raging, the mayor’s office confirmed to THE CITY Tuesday. Mayor Eric Adams appointed Kathleen Corradi as the big cheese in New York’s eternal battle against the critters in April 2023, but she departs the job after […]

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The Democratic Party is having a reckoning around what it actually means to be a “big tent,” and Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for New York City mayor is at the center of the debate. The party’s big tent approach is “one of our greatest strengths. But, if we allow extremist views — like those of democratic […]

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