Photo: The Andy Archive, Andy the Goose LLC On the morning of Sunday, October 20, 1991, in the south-central Nebraska farm town of Hastings, Leo Stohler walked through Chautauqua Park, an open field surrounded by clapboard houses, wafting a metal detector over the dewy grass. Head down and following an indistinct crackle, he suddenly stumbled […]
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A revised commissary contract the Adams administration said would protect Rikers Island detainees and their families from excessive charges has instead locked in many prices that are substantially higher than those at local stores, a survey by THE CITY shows. Under a provision of the revised contract carried over from the original signed during the
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The City Council’s finance chair wants to solve the mystery of how many of Mayor Eric Adams’ hires are funded by agency budget lines — fearing it may “exacerbate” hiring issues at pivotal city agencies. The letter, sent Feb. 18 by Councilmember Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn) and shared with THE CITY, asks budget director Jacques Jiha
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Looking at the “different flavors of career politicians” running in the Democratic mayoral primary, “I didn’t see anyone who could be independent of the machine that runs this city,” said former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. So he entered the race himself “to try and bring my party back to the center.” https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?whitneytilson In a
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“Noah is my Osiris. He will live forever through his work. My assignment is to gather these parts of my love and protect them,” Karon Davis said upon returning from the opening of Noah Davis’s most extensive retrospective to date at the Barbican in London (February 6 – May 11, 2025). The show, following its
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“A parade of mayors, Democrat and Republican, have also predominantly relied on the private sector over the past 40 years to address the city’s lack of affordable housing. Yet here we are, after spending billions of public dollars, arguably mired in a worsening crisis.” Adi Talwar East Village buildings that are a part of the
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Esta disminución se produce cuando la demanda por estos programas, que incluyen la alfabetización para adultos y clases de inglés, ha aumentado considerablemente en los últimos años. Adi Talwar Participantes en una clase de inglés para hablantes de otros idiomas (ESOL) en St. Nicks Alliance de Brooklyn el 5 de agosto de 2024. Este artículo
Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has continued to disrupt Washington with massive cuts to federal agencies and mass layoffs of government workers. Yet one question has remained through the organization’s first month: Who exactly is running things? While Musk has long been the public and online face of DOGE, the
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Commonpoint, a growing Queens nonprofit that runs community centers, has taken over operations at the former Madison Boys and Girls Club Joel E. Smilow clubhouse in Crotona, after purchasing the building for $7.9 million late last year — saving a storied youth facility from closing. Beginning this Thursday, the Bronx Center will be fully open
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Nvidia (NVDA) has had a bumpy start of 2025. Share price of the A.I. chip giant surged to record highs at the beginning of the year and then fell sharply in late January after the Chinese startup DeepSeek shook Silicon Valley. Now, analysts are eagerly anticipating Nvidia’s fourth-quarter and 2024 financial results, set to release
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