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Snow Shovelers Answered the Mayor’s Call, But Payday May Not Arrive Until Spring
New Yorkers flocked to sanitation garages this week to answer the call for emergency snow shovelers. But those winter laborers may not have realized that they likely won’t get paid for that work until spring. Several emergency snow shovelers who worked during January’s big storm have not been paid a month afterwards, they told THE […]
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Mamdani Seeks to Restart Sunnyside Housing Plan, But Needs Billions From Feds
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to revive a massive housing development project over a railyard in Western Queens — with major funding help from the Trump administration. The project, Sunnyside Yard, would consist of 12,000 affordable apartments, with 6,000 of those being in what the administration described as a “Mitchell-Lama-style,” or units created via cooperative and […]
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First ‘Ripoff’ Hearing Packed By Renters Eager to Connect Dots on Lousy Landlords
Leaky ceilings. Persistent pest infestations. Sky-high rents. Complaints to landlords and the city going nowhere. These were just a few of the experiences from the hundreds of New York City tenants who filed into a downtown Brooklyn high school on Thursday to talk to agency officials at the first Rental Ripoff Hearing held by the […]
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Columbia Student Detained by ICE Released After Mamdani-Trump Meeting
The Columbia student arrested by ICE agents inside her dorm was released hours later following an intervention from President Donald Trump, who was apparently acting at the behest of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who met with him at the White House earlier in the afternoon. Ellie Aghayeva, an Azerbaijani undergraduate student of neuroscience and political science, […]
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Mamdani and Trump Meet Again
President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met in Washington on Thursday to discuss building more housing in the city, the mayor said Thursday. The meeting between the two was not publicized on the president’s or the mayor’s schedule in advance. “I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon,” Mamdani […]
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