Knicks fever has overtaken the city. Suburbanites aren’t safe either. Gabrielle, born in New York City, raised on Long Island, and now raising her kids in Westchester, has a severe case — and there’s no question she’ll be at the team’s ticker-tape parade. To guarantee it, she’s paying $750 to have someone hold her spot […]

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Democrats on the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security held a forum in Newark on Wednesday highlighting the grim medical conditions facing detainees inside Delaney Hall detention center following weeks of national scrutiny.  The facility, operated by the prison contractor GEO Group through a 15-year, $1 billion contract, has become a flash point for the […]

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A week ago, Noureddine Bitat watched helplessly on West 36th Street as rowdies trashed his yellow taxi following a Knicks win — and worried about how he would keep making a living. “The crowd was really wild,” he said in Arabic through a translator. “I was scared.” On Wednesday, the father of three sat in […]

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An upscale fashion designer allegedly stole approximately $54,000 in unpaid wages from nine  employees at her Garment District atelier, according to a 16-count indictment unveiled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Wednesday. Andrea Mary Marshall, the founder of Salon 1884, was arraigned Wednesday morning in Manhattan Supreme Court, according to the district attorney’s office. […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Teachers union officials filed a lawsuit this week to block Success Academy, New York City’s largest charter network, from handing one of its charters to CEO Eva Moskowitz’s husband. Eric Grannis, Moskowitz’s spouse, is planning to use that charter to open Strive Charter School, […]

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