A coalition of more than 50 advocacy organizations is urging New York lawmakers to scrutinize the state’s prison system, pressing for answers about alleged brutality, deaths behind bars and violations of solitary confinement reforms as the legislature weighs more than $4 billion in funding. The push for reforms comes amid renewed scrutiny of the correctional […]

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The most recent head of the city’s Taxi & Limousine Commission is taking a new job with a ride-hailing tech company — just weeks after TLC branded it as “illegal.” David Do is jumping to Empower as senior vice president of government and regulatory affairs shortly after exiting the agency that oversees the city’s sprawling […]

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One of New York’s largest nonprofit homeless shelter service providers is charged with violating federal labor law by threatening to permanently replace IT workers on strike since November, according to new charges filed Wednesday.  United Auto Workers Local 2325 accuses CAMBA Inc. of failing to bargain in good faith, retaliating against workers and threatening to […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is getting praise for presenting a budget that estimates expenses more accurately than his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams. But his plan to balance that budget — which anticipates a Wall Street-driven boost to tax revenues, possible draw-downs of the city’s reserves and an across-the-board property tax hike — is getting panned. Both […]

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Lawyers for Jabez Chakraborty, the 23-year-old man who was shot by police while experiencing a psychotic break, are moving to dismiss attempted assault charges against him, contending that the Queens District Attorney secretly indicted him before Chakraborty, his family or his psychiatrist could testify to the grand jury about his mental condition. On Jan. 26 […]

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