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Basement Apartment Rules Get Low Marks from Housing Experts
In an office building in downtown Manhattan, an eight-foot-long banner stretched across the length of a fluorescent-lit hallway. Five-inch-tall red letters indicated the location of an entrance to a basement apartment, as required outside each unit. That’s according to proposed rules from the Department of Buildings for a pilot program to legalize those illicit spaces. […]
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‘He Will Make Sure His Victim Is Silenced’: Survivor Fights Weberman’s Bid for Freedom
The woman whose testimony helped convict prominent Hasidic school mental health counselor Nechemya Weberman of sexually abusing her over three years as a teenager is urging a Brooklyn judge to reject his latest attempt to cut down his 50-year prison sentence — warning that freeing him early would “embolden” him and endanger others. In a […]
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LISTEN: A Vision for NYC’s Deliveristas and a Battery-Powered Future
“I bought myself an electric bike to take my kids to the beach and started charging it outside after seeing stats on how many battery fires there were. I looked at other countries that are doing battery-swap networks and I said, ‘We should do this in New York… My plan, if I can be this […]
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Packed Crowd Cheers as Judge Releases Advocate’s Aunt in High-Stakes Immigration Hearing
A throng of supporters and family members cheered the release of home-health aide Aissatou Diallo, who was set free by a federal judge after a charged habeas corpus hearing Friday morning. ICE agents had detained the aunt of Adama Bah, founder of the Harlem based nonprofit Afrikana, from a line to board a plane at […]
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NYC Deportations Ramped Up While Immigration Arrests Slowed, Latest Data Shows
Immigration arrests in New York City have slowed since peaking in the summer months while deportations increased, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data available through mid-October released Monday and analyzed by THE CITY. Since ICE last released data covering immigration arrests through late July, the agency arrested 858 people in streets, courts and homes […]
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