May 2026

Who Will Represent Mamdani at the MTA? He Has Less Than a Month to Decide.

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes a transit agenda centered on speeding the country’s slowest buses, he has less than a month to fill a pair of longstanding vacancies on the MTA board. The mayor has just four seats on the panel that sets fares, operating and capital budgets for a regional transportation authority that is

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City Sued Landlords of Inwood Fatal Fire Building 16 Times Over Violations Across NYC

Three days before a fatal fire May 4th at 207 Dyckman St. in Inwood, housing inspectors appeared at the six-story walkup and issued a dozen code violations. One of those was for a non-functioning self-closing apartment entry door that was deemed “immediately hazardous.” After the blaze was put out, firefighters discovered severe fire damage in

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For the Sake of All New Yorkers, Don’t Pass Bills that Keep Raising Prices

This past week, California finalized regulations to implement its packaging “EPR” (extended producer responsibility) law, after an initial version was rejected by Governor Newsom as being too expensive for California consumers. Apparently, those concerns extend to the revised rule as well, with a lead California environmental activist quoted in the LA times citing its “exorbitant”

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Trust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity?

For emergent artists, the path into a sustainable career has rarely felt narrower. In the wake of the pandemic, amid a prolonged cost-of-living crisis and years of declining public investment, artists are facing increasingly difficult decisions and being pushed out of the industry. If we want a thriving cultural life, we must face an uncomfortable

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ServiceNow’s Customer Chief Warns ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Is an A.I. Hype Cycle

Tech workers are burning through massive amounts of A.I. compute in a race to code faster and automate more work. In Silicon Valley, the practice is known as “tokenmaxxing,” where employees push their use of ChatGPT and other large language models to the limit to maximize productivity. The trend has accelerated alongside the rise of

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