Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced an official review of the city’s charter focused on government efficiency and also dissolved the charter commission announced in the final hours of former Mayor Eric Adams’ term. The cheekily-titled Commission on Government Efficiency, or COGE – a nod to the Trump administration’s DOGE, which cut services – is “tasked with […]
An organized ring of lawyers, real estate brokers and members of Councilmember Darlene Mealy’s family crafted an elaborate deed theft scheme, posing as heirs of the deceased owner of a Harlem brownstone to obtain more than $1.6 million in fraudulent bank loans, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged Thursday. Bragg announced charges against 18 people
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An organized ring of lawyers, real estate brokers and members of Councilmember Darlene Mealy’s family crafted an elaborate deed theft scheme, posing as heirs of the deceased owner of a Harlem brownstone to obtain more than $1.6 million in fraudulent bank loans, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged Thursday. Bragg announced charges against 18 people
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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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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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This article was originally published by Documented, an independent, non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City. Across the country, thousands of immigrants have been arrested on the street and in immigration courts as part of Trump’s mass deportation agenda. In the New York metro area, including Long Island and
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