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Published September 19NYC's vintage Bus Fest returns with double-decker coach from 1918
It's the biggest event of the year for local transit buffs. [ more › ]
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Published September 18Family of man beaten to death by NY prison guards to receive $24 million
A still from body worn camera footage showing state correction officers using force against Robert Brooks. Robert Brooks' beating death was captured on corrections officers' body-worn cameras. [ more › ]
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Published September 18Students sue Columbia over protest, saying guards locked them in library for hours
Columbia University The federal class-action suit accuses campus security of holding roughly 80 people inside a reading room at Butler Library and beating some of them, and then punishing them to satisfy the Trump administration. [ more › ]
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Published September 18MTA loses bid to eliminate mandatory staffing of subway token booths
A subway token booth at the Coney Island station in 2018. The MTA had sought to implement a policy of leaving token booths locked and unstaffed if the scheduled station agent called out sick or was on vacation. [ more › ]
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Published September 18NYC's top watchdog launches probe into what mayors knew about post-9/11 air
New Yorkers were told the air was safe to breathe as they returned to work in Lower Manhattan less than three weeks after the 9/11 attacks. The news comes just over a week after Mayor Zohran Mamdani released some 170,000 documents related to the air quality around Ground Zero…
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Published September 18Woman's death ruled a homicide after she's found in Manhattan's Highbridge Park
West 174th Street and Amsterdam Avenue She was found dead on a hiking trail with a puncture wound. [ more › ]
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Published September 18NYU Langone strikes deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors
NYU Langone, hospital, medical, building, healthcare. The hospital system will pay $8.5 million, similar to the “monetary penalty” paid by Mount Sinai earlier this month. [ more › ]
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Published September 18Belmont Park is back, but leave the booze and cooler at home
A Statue of Triple crown winner Secretariat with Jockey Ron Turcotte outside the main track prior to the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in 2023. The Long Island horse track reopened Friday after three years of rennovations. [ more › ]
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Published September 18NYC jail reform seemed on track. Then the monitor accused officials of dodging oversight.
Stanley Richards in 2018 People pinning their hopes for reform on a productive working relationship say they were surprised — and the correction department's already acknowledged mistakes. [ more › ]
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Published September 18Are Tesla’s Cybercabs racing past NYC regulators?
Tesla did not tell the city transportation department it had deployed Cybercabs in the five boroughs. [ more › ]
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Published September 18NYC inches closer to creating 'land bank' for tax debts and seized properties
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Mayor Mamdani and the City Council have named appointments to a proposed “land bank” to replace the city’s controversial tax lien sale system. [ more › ]
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Published September 18AG Letitia James Moves to Protect Queens African Burial Ground
State Attorney General Letitia James on Friday announced she is intervening in the pending foreclosure sale of a parking lot in Elmhurst, Queens, that sits on top of an African burial ground. James filed a motion Friday morning asking for a court order declaring that whoever…