Dolly R., a Holocaust survivor in her 90s, knew exactly how much was supposed to be on her food benefits card to get her through June: $224.47. But when she tried to check out at the grocery store in Borough Park, she was in for a shock. There was nothing left on her Electronic Benefits […]

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A progressive group with a three-letter acronym, fueled by on-the-ground organizing, just helped deliver back-to-back primary upsets to install democratic socialists in City Hall and send two of their own to the U.S. Congress — and it’s not the DSA. The United Auto Workers, which in New York primarily represents academics and workers in the […]

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In the span of the past week, Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards has allowed the early release of four people incarcerated in city jails, signaling a willingness to wield a little-used power that previous commissioners employed more sparingly. Under Article 6-A of the State Correction Law, the commissioner can allow people serving sentences of less than […]

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Those Museum of Sex ads plastered on MTA buses are making for rough rides. As Orthodox Jewish critics of the inescapable promotional signs pressed the MTA to expel them from the fronts of buses, the head of the transportation authority conceded Wednesday that some commuters and transit workers have been exposed to crude cracks because […]

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Members of the NYPD and the FBI searched several homes of current and former NYPD officials as part of a criminal investigation, according to Commissioner Jessica Tisch and a source familiar with the probe.  The joint investigation, by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, is looking […]

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