Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and his wife will move into Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, after he’s sworn in next month, he announced Monday.  Mamdani and Rama Duwaji are ditching their rent-stabilized one-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, for the two-story, federal-style mansion along the East River in Yorkville.  “This decision came down to our family’s […]

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In an office building in downtown Manhattan, an eight-foot-long banner stretched across the length of a fluorescent-lit hallway. Five-inch-tall red letters indicated the location of an entrance to a basement apartment, as required outside each unit. That’s according to proposed rules from the Department of Buildings for a pilot program to legalize those illicit spaces.  […]

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The woman whose testimony helped convict prominent Hasidic school mental health counselor Nechemya Weberman of sexually abusing her over three years as a teenager is urging a Brooklyn judge to reject his latest attempt to cut down his 50-year prison sentence — warning that freeing him early would “embolden” him and endanger others. In a […]

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“I bought myself an electric bike to take my kids to the beach and started charging it outside after seeing stats on how many battery fires there were. I looked at other countries that are doing battery-swap networks and  I said, ‘We should do this in New York… My plan, if I can be this […]

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A throng of supporters and family members cheered the release of home-health aide Aissatou Diallo, who was set free by a federal judge after a charged habeas corpus hearing Friday morning. ICE agents had detained the aunt of Adama Bah, founder of the Harlem based nonprofit Afrikana, from a line to board a plane at […]

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