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Comptroller Auditing Troubled Health Benefits Fund for City Workers

Comptroller Brad Lander speaks outside the Municipal Building about a potential lawsuit to put congestion pricing into effect.

The office of City Comptroller Brad Lander is auditing a key fund that pays for city employee’s health benefits, THE CITY has learned, as public sector unions and the administration of Mayor Eric Adams remain locked in a dispute over who is responsible for replenishing the cash pot. For years, the Health Insurance Stabilization Fund […]

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Father and Son Separated by ICE Deported Together to China

A six-year-old boy plays with a toy in a portrait shot.

A Chinese father and son who were arrested by ICE and separated inside  26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan last month have been reunited — and then swiftly deported to China.  Zheng and his six-year-old son Yuanxin were both deported to China this week, the New York Times first reported. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for […]

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Suit Argues for Free Speech in Privately Owned Public Spaces

Do First Amendment rights exist in privately owned public spaces? David O’Keefe, a retired prosecutor, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to establish those rights, after a clash during an anti-Trump protest. Privately owned public spaces — or POPS — are areas like plazas, parklets and atriums open to the public, but built […]

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Rep. Elise Stefanik Drops Out of the New York Governor’s Race

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik is dropping out of the state’s gubernatorial race, she announced in a post on X on Friday. Stefanik also announced that she will not seek reelection to Congress in 2026. “While we would have overwhelmingly won this primary, it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to […]

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LISTEN: Kishkes, Knishes and a Lost New York City

Henry H. Sapoznik speaks on the FAQ NYC podcast about his book The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York

“In my quest to be more American than Americans, I wanted to know more than American music [and in 1972] I was staying with a great fiddle player and banjo player in North Carolina named Tommy Jarrell and he was puzzled, because a lot of the people who had come from up north to study […]

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