Under New York City laws that aim to curb the potential for or appearance of pay-to-play corruption, nobody on the city’s official list of companies and individuals doing, or even seeking, business with the city can give more than $400 to a citywide candidate in any election cycle. But there’s another option: so-called independent expenditure […]

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Climate change promises to reshape the city, yet there was no mention of it at the first official Democratic mayoral debate. Still, it looms over the candidates. With affordability, public safety and housing taking center stage, climate change so far has been left out as a top issue, beyond a few dedicated mayoral forums and […]

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U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement refused entry to two members of Congress who attempted to visit the detention area inside a Manhattan federal building on Sunday afternoon, as concerns grow about the conditions there amid an unprecedented surge of aggressive arrests of immigrants by the Trump administration. Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn/Queens) and Adriano Espaillat (Manhattan/The […]

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Last winter, Virginia tearfully relayed an incident from the previous holiday season, when she and other workers at a Cypress Hills sweatshop waited for hours to receive their promised back pay after confronting the owners of the tobacco-processing business.  Virginia, who like other workers who spoke with THE CITY asked that her real name not […]

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The charter review commission convened by the City Council will recommend tightened oversight of city government leases, following reports that an appointee of Mayor Eric Adams steered a lease to the billionaire owner of a Wall Street office building who’d donated generously to the mayor’s legal defense fund. The commission is set to release its […]

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