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Boosted By Amazon Workers' Win, NYC Leads Nation In New Union Organizing
New York City’s union penetration rate is nearly double the national figure of 10.2%.
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LGBTQ Riis Beachgoers Celebrate Community As Demolition Of Nearby Hospital Looms
The mostly queer sunbathers at The People’s Beach in Queens’ Jacob Riis Park worry about the fate of their stretch of sand.
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Bronx Community Groups Push For Ground-Floor Say In Kingsbridge Armory Deal
An armory is only as good as what occupies it.
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Staten Island Ferry Engineers Entitled To Big Salary Boost, Judge Rules
A judge finds that Staten Island Ferry workers are entitled to wages on par with the private sector.
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Troubled Contractor Abruptly Shutting Million-Dollar Halfway Hotels
Adams also asked the city Department of Investigation to look into the matter.
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Cabbies Rally To Pressure Gov. Hochul Over Manhattan Toll Plan
The rally united drivers who have long been on opposite sides, with the shrinking taxi business losing ground to Lyft and Uber.
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Hochul Gives Strongest Support Yet For Bill To Cap Class Sizes In NYC Public Schools
The Adams administration opposes the proposal, but Hochul says she has just to work out ‘a few more details’ with the mayor.
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Survival Games And Months Of Missed School: How Migrant Children Are Adjusting To New Lives In NYC
Disrupted learning, illiteracy, language and cultural barriers, and lingering trauma are just some of the challenges they face.
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Struggling Taxi Drivers See Congestion Pricing As Fee That Breaks Their Backs
“Whenever you’re taking money from people, it’s going to be a bad thing,” said 51-year-old cabbie Adam Sidib while at a Harlem taxi garage.
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Why Is NYC's Economy Still Lagging? Take A Close Look At Construction, Entertainment And Retail
These three sectors explain why NYC just can’t get its groove back.
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Early Vote Turnout Sinks As New York Makes Final Choices In Second Summer Primary
That’s down more than two percentage points from the 5.6% of eligible voters who cast ballots during early voting in June.
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Three Local Issues NY-10's Next Member Of Congress Could Actually Influence
The problems vexing NY-10 and how the area’s next U.S. Representative could help.
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Battle At Battery Park City Over State Plan To Plow Under Waterfront Green
A crowd came to the defense of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park on the eve of a project to elevate the public space to withstand rising NY waters.
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The U.S. Has Regained All Of Its Lost COVID-Era Jobs — But Not NYC
Local unemployment remains over 6%, with fewer jobs than existed in February 2020.
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10 Years A Detainee: Why Some Spend Years On Rikers, Despite Right To Speedy Trial
Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some detainees been there for eight to ten years?
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For Ida-Flooded Homeowners Denied City Payouts, Legal Options And Political Promises
Many of the soaked suffering are too exhausted to pursue complicated efforts to get compensation.
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City Jails Fail To Protect Or Properly Identify Transgender People, Task Force Finds
This reporting was produced in partnership with New York Public Radio station WNYC and its news site Gothamist.
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Fumes, Dust, Noise Rattle Residents At Former Mitchell-Lama Building Under New Management
Renovation of an Upper West Side apartment building is the cause of disputes between longtime residents and new ownership.
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Brooklyn Could Get A Majority Asian Council District — And Some Asian Groups Are Objecting
Though Asians on different sides of the argument all say they're trying to maximize Asian interests, they don’t agree on how to achieve it.
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City Comptroller Denies Every Single Financial Claim For Hurricane Ida Flooding
Pashko said she was “shocked” when she received a letter on Monday from City Comptroller Brad Lander completely denying her claim.
