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Hub Built to Help Survivors of Crime Rebuild Their Lives Opens in Brooklyn

Center for Community Alternatives opened a new trauma recovery center in Downtown Brooklyn

For thousands of New Yorkers who survive shootings, assaults or domestic violence, the hardest part often begins after the crime scene tape comes down or once they are discharged from the hospital.  To help them in that next phase, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Tuesday cut the ribbon on a new Downtown Brooklyn trauma […]

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State Energy Plan Undermines Emissions Goals and NYC, Experts Say

The Ravenswood Generating Plant sits along the East River in Long Island City.

New York State on Tuesday approved a roadmap to meet state energy needs for the next 15 years — but the plan may make it harder for New York City to achieve its own green goals, according to city officials. Though the plan calls for developing large amounts of renewable energy like solar and wind, […]

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Burial at City Hall: Time Capsule Puts Shine on Mayor’s Record

Mayor Eric Adams buries a time capsule outside City Hall filled with items representing his administration’s accomplishments,

Mayor Eric Adams buried the “proud record” highlighting the greatest hits of his one-term mayoralty Tuesday into a sidewalk next to City Hall. A miniature trash can, a drone, a prism and a vinyl record — whose album cover touts the chart-toppers of his four scandal-tainted years in office — were among the mementos stuffed […]

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NYPD Commissioner Tisch Cut Penalties for 25 Cops Facing Disciplinary Charges

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speaks at a City Hall press conference alongside Mayor Eric Adams about utilizing translation apps

A police officer who responded to a dispute between a mother and her teenage daughter suddenly grabbed the arm of the mom-of-four, shoved her into an apartment wall and cuffed her. A cop responding to another domestic dispute, in which a woman in her 60s locked out her husband, threatened to arrest them both, damaged […]

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City Hall Time Capsule Will Mark Outgoing Mayor’s Hits

NYC DOT plastic barricades surrounded a proposed site of a time capsule outside City Hall

Time to pour some dirt on the Adams administration. Mayor Eric Adams’ team plans to bury a commemorative time capsule just outside City Hall on Tuesday to celebrate the biggest accomplishments of the one-term administration, according to multiple people familiar with the event. In the waning days of the Adams term, officials will present an […]

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