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Best Hope For NYC’s Economy In 2021: A ‘Transition Year’ With Modest Gains By The Fall
Even with vaccines bringing new hope, the city’s pandemic-slammed economy will struggle at least into the fall.

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Even with vaccines bringing new hope, the city’s pandemic-slammed economy will struggle at least into the fall.

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That’s increased anxiety for many New Yorkers hailed as heroes of the pandemic.
“I’m the daughter of a Cuban refugee, so when I hear someone talk about socialism it scares me,” the Republican told THE CITY.
A few tenants who’ve lived for years amid construction are questioning whether the evidence is to be trusted.
That’s the conclusion of new analyses that show the city will end the current fiscal year with a $1.5 billion surplus.
Before the brazen attack on democracy, House members had approached the vote to approve Biden as president.
For many Americans, Wednesday’s insurrection at the Capitol proved shocking.
Queens Defenders co-founder and executive director Lori Zeno attempted to dissuade employees from unionizing.
Public housing tenant Eleanor Dowe lies in a coma in the intensive care unit at Bronx Lebanon Hospital.
“A lot of people I know, it’s happened to them,” Golden said. “But never to me.”
Vito Pitta, a lawyer representing Benjamin’s campaign, pledged a check of $5,750 to the New York City Election Campaign Finance Fund.
Twenty months after Kawaski Trawick was shot and killed by an officer, the New York Police Department has disclosed the nearly full footage.
Mutual Aid NYC keeps an online directory and map of who’s doing what and where. The group also runs a hotline — (646) 437-8080.
Brian Benjamin’s campaign promised to review nearly two dozen donations worth potential thousands in public matching funds.
Cops from Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct withdrew from their regular posts on Mother Gaston Boulevard for parts of a five-day stretch.
They’re not the only Black tenants who say they’ve had problems with management over dog-related incidents in the building.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has prioritized jail officers and other staff who work with inmates for immunization.
The outage threatens to extend well into winter as the pandemic keeps many tenants all-but homebound.
The coming end of the year brings some promising news for tenants economically slammed by the pandemic.