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New federal grant to fund nearly $21M of upgrades to make Delancey Street safer (this is what happens when NYC’s former DOT Commissioner goes to DC) :
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. reports, the emissaries to Red Hook shelter didn’t like what they saw. Asylum seekers are preparing for another night outside in the cold.
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Asylum seekers are preparing for another night in the cold outside the Watson hotel in Hell’s Kitchen tonight. A handful visited the emergency shelter in Brooklyn the city is offering, but reported back that the conditions there are subpar.
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A commercial truck depot stands where an ambitious residential complex had been promised. Now, New York Attorney General Letitia James is writing to the developer of the site that "operation of the truck depot may constitute a public nuisance."
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Page after page of incredible jaw-dropping stories about Rikers in new book from /, RIKERS: AN ORAL HISTORY. Buy it: bookshop.org/p/books/rikers
And listen to them on , with callers sharing their own jaw-dropping stories: pca.st/episode/6a6670
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Folks, as I’m sure you know I’m covering the opening of Grand Central Madison today and I’m here to tell you I got lost trying to find it. When you arrive there are basically two signs pointing to the LIRR concourse. This one:
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Reminds me of Skinny Joey's comment after getting 2 years: "President Trump was right. They need to outlaw the flippers."
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A few weeks after Trump dined with a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semitism spewing celebrity, he posed for a photo with a former Philly mob boss at his club inquirer.com/politics/penns
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Mr. Mayor, you can come on pretty much anytime and speak directly with your "consumers" -- just like BdB did every week!
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"I need direct to consumer marketing," Adams says about his new online initiative to communicate his policies directly with New Yorkers. "You can communicated a distorted version of what I say," he adds, a knock on the press' coverage.
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News reporters are swallowing the story that wind power may be responsible for whale deaths this winter...hook, line and sinker. I tried to figure out where that big fish story is coming from.
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In NYCHA, the human tenants are often understandably unhappy with their conditions. The rodent residents seem increasingly fat and happy.
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The city is delaying installation of a key Lower Manhattan bike lane after state judges complained it would impact parking outside courthouses. One court official likened the proposed traffic change to France’s failed effort to deter Nazis
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A very smart preview of the high stakes labor negotiations the city faces from
Labor ally or fiscal hawk? Adams faces hard choice as NYC municipal unions demand raises in COVID era gothamist.com/news/labor-all via
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DOT promised big rigs on the BQE would be ticketed by the end of 2022. Now it's indefinitely delayed.
Some migrants kids are using translation apps to communicate with teachers. Other educators have deputized bilingual students or tapped maintenance workers as go-betweens.
on how schools have responded to the surge in asylum seekers.
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Unclear how this possibly happened, but an SUV tore through the fencing and cement barrier and plummeted onto the LIRR train tracks at Atlantic and Vanderbilt avenues
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George Santos claimed in a 2016 eviction case that he was mugged in Queensboro Plaza while on the way to deliver a rent check. The NYPD says it has no record of the incident.
His handwritten statement:
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I am also available for interviews on what it's like to be blocked by Elon Musk.
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Twitter’s Thursday-night massacre, told by those who lived it. @MatthewStieb reports nym.ag/3FYG5wu
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I got the scoop on NYC's wastewater surveillance program: the city health & environmental protection agencies have been testing for COVID-19 in our sewers since early 2020, but transparency issues abound.
for & /: (1/5) gothamist.com/news/wastewate
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Big things happening in the newsroom!
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We're thrilled to welcome two more reporters to the @WNYC & @Gothamist newsroom! @DavidFBrand joins as a reporter on the Economics & Equity team, focusing on housing & development, while Kerry Shaw joins as Assistant Day-of Editor. nypublicradio.org/2022/12/15/dav
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Queens residents' compost will soon heat NYC homes thanks to a biogas project at the Newtown Creek plant expected to launch next month.
Gersh hasn’t been this fired up since the Prospect Park goose massacre of 2010.
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BREAKING: Right now, I'm bringing my CRIMINAL MISCHIEF crime wave right to the front door of @nypdpc Sewell, busting a 1 Police Plaza placard perp who has defaced his plate — perhaps after getting those 16 speed-camera tickets? Why doesn't @NYCMayor or @nypd1pct care about this?
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Farewell, "conversational seating." The subway cars with orange and yellow seats are going the way of the dodo.
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Mayor Adams’ Brooklyn rowhouse ticketed for rat infestation
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Tourists praised the "entre-peeneurs" who set up port-a-potties at the entrance to the BK Bridge, seeking a $1 donation for use.
But the city Parks Department quickly put the kibosh on the commodes.
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Buy Bill’s book!
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My new book about the Sheldon Silver case, Do For Me, is available on Amazon and other ebook sites. A print version of the book will be ready in a few days.
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RIP John Meringolo, one of the more colorful characters I met covering Manhattan fed.
He had quite the record against SDNY. Won not guilty verdicts for NYPD Insp. Jimmy Grant and an accused Bonanno lieutenant, Porky Zancocchio.
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New York City defense lawyer John Meringolo has died, according to his father. He recently represented Timothy Shea in the federal We Build the Wall fraud case.
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In 2020, as and I were working on our Rikers oral history for Random House, I interviewed David Campbell who was just out of Rikers. He told me this incredibly harrowing story about trying to get help for an older man he knew as "Viejo." 🧵
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Data shows where thousands of new arrivals, including many asylum seekers, are attending NYC schools.
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Grand opening of East Side Access (aka Grand Central Madison) faces possible delay because MTA missed deadline to install train safety tech.
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"The family behind the company hired by New York City to help manage an influx of asylum seekers has been a generous supporter of several of the governors responsible for busing many of those migrants to the city."
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Florida coming in 5th place among destinations for public school students who left NYC.
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At the Brooklyn school that saw the sharpest drop in math scores since 2019, classrooms are chronically overcrowded, 81% of students have experienced poverty and students recently had to pass through metal detectors before going to class.
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Latest example of shoddy infrastructure in the CUNY system: Bronx Community College is without heat, and faculty is uncertain when it'll be back.
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Nobody gives a quote like Kuby
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Per Ron Kuby: "I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again: the Bronx civil court is the greatest instrument of wealth redistribution since the Red Army."
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Mayor Adams' office produces a metric that found only 1.5% of city streets were "filthy" last fiscal year.
The obscure stat -- which is surprisingly important for Sanitation Department operations -- baffled many New Yorkers.
Listen here to 's feature on how the influx of migrants is dividing one Staten Island community. wnyc.org/story/influx-m via
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Folks, Friday will be my last day at the Daily News. I’ll start next week as an assistant editor on the accountability desk at WNYC.
nypublicradio.org/2022/10/25/raj
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