1199SEIU, the largest healthcare union in the country with 450,000 members in the Northeast, endorsed Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani for mayor on Friday, after backing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the June primary.  The politically powerful union, fresh off of its own contentious leadership election, is the latest labor group to line up behind Mamdani […]

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Attorneys with three publicly funded legal services providers for low-income New Yorkers went on strike Friday morning after failing to reach an agreement with management on raises. Staff at the Bronx Defenders, the Center for Appellate Litigation and the Office of the Appellate Defender join the roughly 400 attorneys and legal staff across four other […]

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A city fire marshal used FDNY’s access to a facial recognition software to help NYPD detectives identify a pro-Palestinian protester at Columbia University, circumventing policies that tightly restrict the Police Department’s use of the technology.  Details of the arrangement emerged in a recent decision by a Manhattan criminal court judge and in a lawsuit seeking […]

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This story was produced in collaboration with Documented, the newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City. On the Fourth of July, the 150 or so people packed into a small community center in Queens had much to celebrate — and fear. “It’s very emotional,” said one man, Antonio, holding […]

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Sweltering Red Hook residents are urging the Parks Department to make fixes to their beloved outdoor pool, which remains closed weeks after the season kicked off — and will close again in a few years for a major renovation.  The Olympic-sized pool never got the chance to open in late June because a decades-old pipe […]

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