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NYC Council weighs bill to tighten building safety measures following Bronx...
Councilmember Pierina Sanchez is joined by Legal Aid Attorney Adriene Holder and building resident Juan Ricart on the steps of City Hall.Councilmember Pierina Sanchez sponsored the measure, known as...
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Dinner reservations at Tatiana are ‘impossible’ to get, so I spent a month...
Tatiana restaurant in David Geffen Hall in New York City.The reservation booking scene is a digital hellscape. [ more › ]
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Extra Extra: The Bronx will soon have just 1 movie theater
Because the golden age of movie theaters has passed, here are your afternoon links: a UFO spotting, Meghan Markle's jam, a Brooklyn pastry shop that accepts EBT, and more from around the city and...
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City College students form 3rd major campus encampment to demand divestment...
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up an encampment at CUNY's City College in West Harlem on April 25, 2024.Students at the Harlem campus set up more than a dozen tents and spoke out in the central quad. [...
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NYC records 60 traffic deaths in 1st quarter of 2024, the most since Vision...
A new report from street safety advocacy group Transportation Alternatives raises concerns about the safety of cyclists and pedestrians on city streets. [ more › ]
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NYC gardeners push 'year of the milkweed' to save monarch butterflies from...
A monarch butterfly on a milkweed flower in Toronto, Canada. Governors Island has launched a campaign to get more New Yorkers to plant milkweed, which is the butterfly's food source, nest and...
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New Bronx program is linking local landlords with homeless New Yorkers
The program, funded by JP Morgan Chase, will connect landlords to people with housing vouchers.The organization BronxWorks is launching the initiative to bridge a gap between would-be renters and...
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Small spaces, big city: New Yorkers at work in tight quarters
An information agent gives the thumbs up during a lunch rush in Grand Central Station on Feb. 19, 2024.These workers in tiny spaces keep New York City running. [ more › ]
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NYC to get a boost in bus service, but pilot program for free routes ends
Funding in the state budget adds more frequent runs to some routes across the five boroughs, but lawmakers also ended a pilot that offered free rides on five lines. [ more › ]
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Early Addition: Hey
Because those may be the most sinister three letters we've ever seen, here are your early links: Scott Stringer suing his sexual assault accuser, elite gas station hamburger, it's Emily Stone now and...
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NYPD: Officers shot and killed pit bull that mauled its owner to death in the...
The building on Simpson Street in the Bronx where police say a man was killed by his pit bull.The owner was pronounced dead at a Bronx hospital early on Friday morning. [ more › ]
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The Brooklyn Half Marathon is Sunday. Here's what you need to know.
Runners run near the Brooklyn Bridge in a previous NYCRUNS Brooklyn Half Marathon.More than 20,000 runners are registered to complete the 13.1-mile route. [ more › ]
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MTA plans to turn on congestion pricing tolls June 30
The MTA's congestion pricing program has a base fare of $15 for drivers south of 60th Street in Manhattan. The MTA hopes to start tolling on June 30.Pending lawsuits could change the agency's timeline...
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Extra Extra: Bernie Williams continues to shred
Because the Yankee great made his classical guitarist debut with the New York Phil, here are your afternoon links: Columbia student radio, Zero Bond in East Hampton, taking NJ Transit to high school...
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Bronx mother accused of murdering her daughter, police say
Forest Houses in the Bronx where police say a woman killed her daughter.Six-year-old Jalayah Eason was found unconscious and unresponsive in May 2023. [ more › ]
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Debate heats up over how to dispose of Indian Point radioactive water
The Indian Point nuclear power plant shut down in 2021.The operator of the nuclear power plant has sued, saying the state wrongly blocked its plan to discharge the water into the Hudson River. [ more › ]
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Menendez name was once a gift for NJ representative. Now, a primary...
Rep. Rob Menendez right, and his father, Sen. Bob Menendez, attend a news conference in December.Hoboken Mayor Rhavi Bhalla is looking to unseat Rep. Rob Menendez. [ more › ]
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NYC Councilmembers call for ferry connecting Staten Island with southern...
Lawmakers want to reopen a ferry route between southern Brooklyn and Staten Island.The route was shuttered after the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opened in the 1960's [ more › ]
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With fatal fires at a 2-decade high, NYC Council eyes ways to help victims
Anna Bessendorf's Brooklyn apartment was heavily damaged in a fire in 2022. She took this photo outside as firefighters and other emergency workers responded to the scene.Displaced tenants often don’t...
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NYPD: Infant found dead in Staten Island building
The building on Staten Island where police say an infant was found dead.Police arrested and charged the boy's parents with reckless endangerment in the first and second degrees. [ more › ]
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