Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t use it at all, “But as the writing moved forward into 2023, 2024, it got better and I got better at using it,” he said. “To be clear,… More »
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A smiling Mayor Mamdani was in full cheerful-salesman mode when he invited journalists to City Hall to discuss “Block by Block,” his administration’s 112-page housing plan, which he describes as “the … More »
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Every budget year faces unique challenges, and when those challenges involve major policy decisions, it is our responsibility to be both thorough and thoughtful. Throughout this budget process, I returned again and again to the data, and to ensuring that the policy in this budget truly addresses the affordability crisis and eases the burden on
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By the time the police took him away, Garratt Kennedy had already been at war for months with his landlord, a new owner who was trying to turn the gritty Hell’s Kitchen SRO Kennedy called home into a slick Times Square hotel. Kennedy is 59 and had lived in his cramped, 100-square-foot, rent-stabilized SRO room
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By the time the police took him away, Garratt Kennedy had already been at war for months with his landlord, a new owner who was trying to turn the gritty Hell’s Kitchen SRO Kennedy called home into a slick Times Square hotel. Kennedy is 59 and had lived in his cramped, 100-square-foot, rent-stabilized SRO room
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Late last summer, the founders of a small company in Ukraine that made software to manage swarms of drones were weighing whether to work with Erik Prince, the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. “Erik Prince is fucking cruising around telling everybody that he’s going to take them big time … More »
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The city is moving full speed ahead on the makeover of a deadly Greenpoint street after Manhattan prosecutors charged last year that the project was slowed by political power players during the mayoral administration of Eric Adams. Department of Transportation and City Hall officials broke ground Wednesday on work to complete the long-delayed redesign of
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The city is moving full speed ahead on the makeover of a deadly Greenpoint street after Manhattan prosecutors charged last year that the project was slowed by political power players during the mayoral administration of Eric Adams. Department of Transportation and City Hall officials broke ground Wednesday on work to complete the long-delayed redesign of
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A federal judge in Lower Manhattan is considering whether to further restrict the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to keep detained immigrants inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza. In a two-hour long bench trial Wednesday morning, immigrant advocates laid out their case that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had repeatedly violated the constitutional rights of
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A federal judge in Lower Manhattan is considering whether to further restrict the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to keep detained immigrants inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza. In a two-hour long bench trial Wednesday morning, immigrant advocates laid out their case that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had repeatedly violated the constitutional rights of
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