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Este articulo fue publicado originalmente por el Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Read it in English here. Kisha Cedeño recuerda que tenía 12 años cuando se sintió avergonzada por primera vez por su falta de dominio del español. Cursaba el sexto grado en la escuela Juan Pablo Duarte en Washington Heights, Nueva York, y en el […]

After eight Black elected officials from Southeast Queens put out a joint statement saying they were endorsing Andrew Cuomo for mayor, three of them said that, actually, they’re not doing that (and, in one case, won’t be ranking Cuomo at all). https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?andrewandadrienne Guest Jeff Coltin of Politico New York, who broke that story over the weekend,

After President Trump’s transportation secretary trashed the subway as a “shithole,” baffled MTA and NYPD officials pointed to a nearly 30% drop in major transit crime from a year ago. Chief Joseph Gulotta, head of the NYPD Transit Bureau Chief conceded Monday that the subway is struggling with a safety perception problem — even as

This story was originally published by the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Kisha Cedeño recalls being 12 years old when she first felt embarrassed by her lack of Spanish proficiency. She was in sixth grade at Juan Pablo Duarte School in Washington Heights, New York, and was assigned to write and pronounce a word in Spanish

Yet another top aide to Mayor Eric Adams has resigned, this time the head of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS), a job the embattled mayor once described as a key player in the effort to “root out waste, fraud and abuse.” Lisa Flores, the city’s chief procurement officer as head of the office,

Gov. Hochul pushed back Friday on a major health union’s demand that she delay moving home care for more than 250,000 New Yorkers to a single administrator, a transition Hochul’s office says is necessary to head off “runaway costs.” Just days before an April 1 deadline for hundreds of companies to stop managing the Consumer-Directed

This article is adapted from our March 20 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Mayor Eric Adams has often said, when asked about his shift right politically, that he didn’t leave the party he’s currently registered in — “the Democratic Party left me.” That

An apartment building just off the boardwalk in Coney Island boasts a heated outdoor pool, a cozy library and a sunny penthouse lounge with sweeping views of the ocean and the Verazzano Narrows Bridge. But the most remarkable element is hidden below the ground: 153 wells, dug deeper than the Statue of Liberty is tall.

Randy Mastro, who withdrew his bid to be the city’s corporation counsel in September after an uproar from the City Council, will now be the city’s first deputy mayor. Mayor Eric Adams announced the hiring to round out a new slate of aides following the departure of high-level staffers earlier this month. “Randy is a

A Westchester landscaping company is close to receiving contracts worth tens of millions of dollars in tree-planting work despite its owner facing prison time for a bribery and illegal dumping scheme, records show. Griffin’s Landscaping, based in Peekskill, has two active tree planting contracts with the Parks Department totaling $14.7 million and three upcoming contracts