More than a decade after a federal judge ruled that the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices violated the Constitution, the agency is still not following the law according to a new report by a court-appointed monitor. “This is not the year-end report that I had hoped to submit,” wrote the monitor, Mylan Denerstein, who […]

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Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security apparently lied their way into a Columbia university dormitory and arrested a student there, the university’s acting president Claire Shipman said in a statement Thursday morning. The agents entered the housing on West 122nd St. at around 6:30 a.m., Shipman said. “Our understanding at this time is […]

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Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security apparently lied their way into a Columbia University dormitory and arrested a student there, the university’s acting president Claire Shipman said in a statement Thursday morning. The agents entered her campus housing in Morningside Heights at around 6:30 a.m., Shipman said. “Our understanding at this time is […]

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The calls come in every few minutes, some at the same time. “Hello, you’ve reached the Met Council on Housing’s Tenants’ Rights Hotline,” a friendly voice answers. The voice belongs to one of the 40 or so volunteers who staff the hotline, some remotely and some, often, from a small, fluorescent-lit office on Vanderbilt Avenue […]

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City transportation and sanitation officials slid off the hot seat Monday when a City Council hearing on the much-maligned response to a January winter storm was postponed — by another major snowfall that dropped close to 20 inches of snow across the five boroughs. But the prospect of a second postponement for Friday’s rescheduled oversight hearing […]

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