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MTA chair speaking on congestion pricing improvements

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Congestion pricing: MTA left in the lurch after Hochul scraps toll plan, Albany fails on funding bill

Traffic on Third Avenue in Manhattan.

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Hochul’s congestion pricing reversal comes for a policy decades in the making

Fair Fares

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City Council seeks expansion of Fair Fares transit discount to 650,000 more New Yorkers: report

Mayor Adams announces new public restrooms to be built

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When you gotta go: NYC to get 46 new public restrooms over next 5 years

This is a cartoon version of pigeons on a wire.

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Anger, relief and denial: Brooklynites react to Trump’s hush-money conviction

By Adam Daly & Kirstyn Brendlen

mayor eric adams heat announcement

Summer weather: Adams rolls out new preparations for extreme heat, poor air quality

By Ethan Stark-Miller & Brooklyn Paper staff

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell

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‘I like his style’: Mayor Adams defends NYPD chief of patrol amid social media controversy

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State court revives suit to overturn Local Law 97 on appeal, potentially imperiling landmark climate law

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Pair of Council Committees approve tweaks to ‘City of Yes’ zoning changes for businesses

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‘Irresponsible’: Locals criticize Adams, DOT as McGuinness Boulevard redesign falters

By Kirstyn Brendlen

men in suits at a podium discussing social workers at NYPD police stations in NYC

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Why City Council members want to put a social worker in every NYPD precinct

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams rallies with her colleagues, advocates and hundreds of seniors outside City Hall to call for the restoration of funding for older adult centers and meal programs. Thursday, May 16, 2024.

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‘We won’t allow that’: City Hall rallygoers demand Mayor Adams roll back cuts to senior centers, meal programs

Adams, Banks

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City Council calls on Mayor Adams to restore pre-K, 3-K budget cuts

City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks about migrant shelter limit report

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Report from Lander suggests NYC’s migrant shelter stay limit enforced in ‘haphazard’ fashion, ‘disregarded humanity’

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Council Member Inna Vernikov sued for defamation by Russian-language media mogul

By Adam Daly

state sen. Zellnor Myrie

Politics

State senator Zellnor Myrie launches committee to explore 2025 mayoral run

By Ethan Stark-Miller

crystal hudson

Politics

Struggling to support thousands of migrants in local shelters, CM Crystal Hudson says district has received ‘no material support’ from City Hall

By Kirstyn Brendlen

NYPD and Sheriff's office members at illegal cannabis shop raid

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‘Padlock to Protect’: NYC boosts effort to shut down illegal cannabis shops with new state-granted authority

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Mo’ money, mo’ problems: Budget office review finds a Staten Island secession would be more costly for residents

By Jada Camille

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell

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City Council seeks probe into NYPD brass’ ‘intimidating and dangerous’ social media activity

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