Summer in the city is for Coney Island, Central Park and coco-mango-cherry carts. But when the heat becomes dangerous — as it will this holiday weekend — the focus switches to cooling centers, Con Ed and air conditioning.  Beginning Wednesday through at least Saturday, a heat wave is hitting New York City, and hard. Feels-like […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. In the scrum of the Knicks ticker-tape parade in Lower Manhattan two weeks ago, an off-duty EMT volunteer spotted a stranger showing signs of a drug overdose. Acting fast, Simone Kelly found someone in the crowd who happened to […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his $125.8 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, which closed a gap which was a large as $12 billion last year, shows that democratic socialists “not only understand economics just as well as the capitalists” but “can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principals.” […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin agreed Tuesday to a $125.8 billion budget, including an additional $175 million for rental help, following tense negotiations in the final days over funding for housing vouchers. The 11th-hour deal comes on the final day before the budget is due, and was passed hours later by […]

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Even before another “Billionaires’ Row” tower pierces the Manhattan skyline, the developer of the planned skyscraper is leaving a mark underground. Two new subway elevators at the 57th Street stop beneath Sixth Avenue are fully funded by the real estate firm Sedesco, which plans to build a high-rise at 41 W. 57th St., a long-empty […]

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