This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Applications opened Tuesday for the inaugural year of New York City’s free childcare program for 2-year-olds. Part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordability campaign for free universal childcare, 2-K will for the first time in the city’s history offer free care for 2-year-olds […]

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The Executive Office of Immigration Review rolled out so-called “mega master” hearings Monday in New York City immigration court, where a single immigration judge reviewed more than a hundred deportation cases that day.  The new policy — which debuted recently in Illinois and Massachusetts — played out inside the courtroom of Immigration Judge Arya Ranasinghe, […]

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When, a little over 10 years ago, the Mayor Bill de Blasio administration approached East New York City Councilmember Rafael Espinal to win his support for a plan to rezone East New York, many residents of the economically struggling Brooklyn neighborhood feared that a rezoning would lead to gentrification and push them out. Espinal had […]

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There’s something different about just walking to work or to get your laundry, and then just disappearing. People are grabbed up who sometimes have never had an interaction with the immigration system before. They’ve never had a lawyer. These street arrests involve a lot of discretion in the field from ICE officers. Gwynne Hogan joins […]

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Officials from the newly launched Office of Community Safety haven’t yet spoken with anyone from the NYPD about collaboration or shifting responsibilities to the office, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday. Council Speaker Julie Menin asked the commissioner during an executive budget hearing on public safety about coordination between the police department and OCS. The […]

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