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Lunar New Year Is Prime Time For Flushing's Live Poultry Markets
The city’s live bird markets and slaughterhouses are playing chicken with animal rights organizations pushing to permanently ban operations.
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Results From THE CITY's First-Ever Subway Quiz
The ride was rough; the average score was 5 out of 10.
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Mets Boss Bets Big On Chinese Gamblers In ‘Vision' For Parking Lot Development
A casino in Flushing could cash in on an Asian market with a proven appetite for gaming, but neighborhood feedback so far is mixed.
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Shops And Robberies In The Years Of Unlicensed Weed Selling
City law enforcement officials and City Council members probed the grimmer side of NYC’s rowdy cannabis gray market.
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Public Hospital Nurses Rally For Union Deal To Match Private Peers' Recent Win
More than 9,000 Health + Hospitals employees seek commitments to fewer patients at a time. But it's illegal for public employees to strike.
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Pressure To Boost Spending Shapes City And State Budgets Despite Revenue Risks
Industry groups and advocates put the heat on Adams and Hochul to tap higher-than-expected tax revenue for housing, job training and more.
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‘Fiscal Discipline': Libraries, Schools Would Absorb Cuts In Adams' Preliminary Budget
The financial plan released Thursday sets up a monthslong process of negotiation and hearings within the City Council.
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Solitary At Rikers: ‘People Go Crazy In There'
"It drives a crazy person crazy in a box, man. They come out a different person," said Donovan Drayton, at Riker's from 2007 to 2012.
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NYC Asylum Seekers Returning To Port Authority For Help
Migrants are coming to the bus terminal every day to seek services from the government workers and volunteers there.
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The Future Of Gas Stoves In New York: What To Know Ahead Of A Ban
We explain the options, whether you rent or own.
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Red-Flag Orders Skyrocket In New York City After State Strengthened Gun Laws
Emergency Risk Protection Orders that bar certain people from buying guns were barely used. That changed in August.
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NYPD's Track Record On Overtime Spending Casts Doubt On Budget Claims
City agencies from libraries to public schools would be strained mightily to trim costs without reducing services or laying off workers.
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Nurses Accuse Montefiore Of Threatening To Fire New Hires If They Joined Strike: NLRB Complaint
The unfair labor practice charge comes as nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai strike for a third consecutive day.
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How These NYC Public Housing Residents Became Models For Tenant Rights Activism
Over generations, residents of the Cooper Park Houses in Brooklyn have created a blueprint for successful housing organizing.
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Why Are Slashings Surging In City Jails? We Asked Four People With Inside Knowledge.
The figures are grim: There were 477 stabbings and slashings in New York City jails last year. There were just 40 in 2017.
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Racks In Effect: City, MTA To Put Bike Parking At Dozens Of Subway Stations
Transit officials described the move as a “real sea change” for New York cyclists that will install bicycle racks at 37 locations.
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Hospitals Scramble To Find Medical Workers As Nurses Strike
Nurses at Mt. Sinai and Montefiore walked off the job Monday morning to try and force their employers to treat them like “valuable people."
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How To Get Help For Long COVID In NYC
There are care clinics for long COVID, local support groups, and ideas from those living with this illness.
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Northwest Bronx Leads City In Heat Complaints
A handful of private buildings are responsible for a vastly outsized share of heat complaints, according to a new report.
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MTA Hit For Lack Of Safety Training In Wake Of Motorman's Death In Track Fire
3 years after the death of a subway motorman, the MTA still has not provided annual “escape hood” training to thousands of subway workers.
