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NYPD and Office of Community Safety Have Yet to Meet, Commissioner Tisch Says
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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City Hall Made Her the Face of a Housing Solution. Now She’s All But Cut Out.
During the last mayor’s term, Sadé Singh was a face of the city’s push to allow more housing across the boroughs. Now, building that housing on her own property may be impossible. Singh, who lives in St. Albans, Queens, wanted homeowners like herself to be able to build backyard cottages and apartments over garages, in […]
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Pepper Spray and Broken Bones: Inside the Battle Over Delaney Hall
On Thursday afternoon, the wives of detainees on a work strike at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark started to receive frantic calls. Guards were beating men with batons and deploying pepper spray in one of the units, they said. “They were all screaming, but I could hear him say, ‘They’re hitting me. […]
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LISTEN: Did This Muslim Troublemaker Help Found New York?
Anthony Janszoon van Salee and his wife Geitje were always feuding with neighbors and authorities, who put them down as the Turk and a whore and who kept putting them on trial before they were finally exiled from Manhattan — only to become the biggest landowners in what’s now Brooklyn, with descendants who married into […]
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Mamdani Budget Leaves Out Key Program for Low-Income New Yorkers
A program that has helped connect tens of thousands of New Yorkers to federal, state, and city benefits is under threat after it wasn’t earmarked for any funding in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest budget proposal. NYCBenefits launched in 2023 and works with three dozen providers across the city to help low-income residents through every step […]
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