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As the U.S. Supreme Court ruling came down ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants Thursday morning, Doudgy Charmant was painting a mural honoring Haitian heritage at the corner of Newkirk and Nostrand avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn.  The 27-year-old told The City Reporter he had immigrated to the United States as a child […]

Popsicles, paletas and now rents: all frozen. The Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved 0% rent increases for about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. The vote took place in front of rows of tenants and advocates chanting in four different languages at the auditorium at El

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A pro-landlord member of the Rent Guidelines Board resigned from her post Thursday morning, just hours before the body was scheduled to vote on how much to raise rent on rent-stabilized apartments. Christina Smyth, a lawyer, emailed a three-page resignation statement to reporters that criticized the process of determining a rent increase — possibly a

Dolly ًR., a Holocaust survivor in her 90s, knew exactly how much was supposed to be on her food benefits card to get her through June: $224.47. But when she tried to check out at the grocery store in Borough Park, she was in for a shock. There was nothing left on her Electronic Benefits

In the span of the past week, Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards has allowed the early release of four people incarcerated in city jails, signaling a willingness to wield a little-used power that previous commissioners employed more sparingly. Under Article 6-A of the State Correction Law, the commissioner can allow people serving sentences of less than

A progressive group with a three-letter acronym, fueled by on-the-ground organizing, just helped deliver back-to-back primary upsets to install democratic socialists in City Hall and send two of their own to the U.S. Congress — and it’s not the Democratic Socialists of America. The United Auto Workers, which in New York primarily represents academics and

Those Museum of Sex ads plastered on MTA buses are making for rough rides. As Orthodox Jewish critics of the inescapable promotional signs pressed the MTA to expel them from the fronts of buses, the head of the transportation authority conceded Wednesday that some commuters and transit workers have been exposed to crude cracks because

Members of the NYPD and the FBI searched several homes as part of a criminal investigation into current and former members of the NYPD, according to Commissioner Jessica Tisch.  The joint investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is reportedly looking into bribery allegations that

Frank Carone, one of former Mayor Eric Adams’ top aides and a longtime powerbroker with the Brooklyn Democratic machine, was arrested this morning on federal charges related to an alleged bribery scheme involving a migrant shelter contract, The City Reporter has learned. Carone, who served as Adams’ chief of staff before leaving City Hall to