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“If we want New York to remain … enjoyable, economically viable, we need to be able to move,” said Law-Gisiko of the City Club of New York.

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“If we want New York to remain … enjoyable, economically viable, we need to be able to move,” said Law-Gisiko of the City Club of New York.

“Now it’s almost 100 degrees and buses aren’t out on the road — that’s a real problem,” said JP Patafio, a TWU Local vice president.
A summertime crew of restoration interns travels all over the boroughs to maintain the more than 800 public sculptures in New York City.
Residents at Fordham Towers say they have been without reliable elevator service for more than a year.
City legislators want voters to give them the power to say yay or nay to even more of the Mayor’s agency picks.
Continuum’s project, now at 14 stories and 475 apartments in one tower, is down from 32 floors and 1,600 units in two buildings.
“She saved my life,” Yu Xin Chen, 78, said. “She is a hero.”
School leaders don't expect to receive extra money in their budgets — and will have to come up with their own policies.
“No one from the federal government reached out to us,” he said. NASA didn’t immediately return a request for comment from THE CITY.
ABC No Rio will get a new energy-efficient headquarters on the same site as its famous Rivington Street artists’ hub.
Some of the neighborhoods with the best tree growth are the ones that need them most, according to a new study.
“The mayor’s campaign has continued to draw strong support from New Yorkers,” said Vito Pitta, an attorney for Adams 2025 campaign.
For years New York has procured naloxone from a single supplier, but Hikma Pharmaceuticals is fighting hard to get a contract.
“It sounds all nice and fluffy,” said Councilmember Linda Lee. “Now show us how the money was actually spent.”
“I notice every space that’s just sitting there,” she said. “Most people just walk by it and to most, it’s just another gate in the city."
“We’ve seen the marsh kind of grow already… We’ve seen the birds come,” she said. “It’s kind of nice to see it."
She’s also one of more than a million immigrants the Biden administration has permitted into the country via the use of humanitarian parole.
The Baruch Bathhouse, the city’s first, opened in 1901 as the Rivington Street Municipal Bath.
Can you vote, get financial aid, or travel out of state? Some of that depends on your supervised release and evolving laws.
Community doulas who spoke to THE CITY described challenges in serving low-income communities and in getting paid in a timely manner.