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Meta Lets Subway Surfing Videos ‘Live for Too Long,’ MTA Boss Says
The head of the MTA warned Wednesday that tech giant Meta needs to “get on the stick” about taking down social media videos of subway-surfing daredevils riding on top of trains. With five deaths so far in 2025 from subway surfing, Lieber singled out Instagram — operated by Meta — as the platform where “subway […]
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Drug Gang Besieged East Harlem NYCHA Building, Federal Prosecutors Charge
For more than three years, public housing tenants of the James Weldon Johnson Houses in East Harlem have lived in a state of terror wrought by a crew of narcotics dealers who transformed their NYCHA development into an open-air drug market, prosecutors alleged Wednesday. The dealers took over the lobby of one building at Johnson […]
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Mamdani Taps Union Leader as Liaison to State and Federal Governments
A longtime union leader has been tapped to run incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which will play a crucial role in building political support for some of his biggest — and costliest — campaign promises. Jahmila Edwards was announced at a library in Greenpoint on Wednesday as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, overseeing […]
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Dunkin Tops Starbucks in Manhattan as Chain Stores Contract in NYC
It’s a changing of the guard among chains in New York City as longtime stalwarts like Starbucks close scores of stores and newcomers like Club Pilates and Naya rapidly expand their presence. The annual report on chains from the Center for an Urban Future released Wednesday shows that the number of chain stores in the […]
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Hub Built to Help Survivors of Crime Rebuild Their Lives Opens in Brooklyn
For thousands of New Yorkers who survive shootings, assaults or domestic violence, the hardest part often begins after the crime scene tape comes down or once they are discharged from the hospital. To help them in that next phase, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Tuesday cut the ribbon on a new Downtown Brooklyn trauma […]
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