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Chelsea pol releases job bank to connect public housing residents with local jobs

By Max Parrott

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Biden tells a Broadway theater packed for fundraiser that Trump is determined to destroy the nation

By Aamer Madhani, Brian Slodysko & Colleen Long, AP

Equal Rights Amendment forum speakers at Hunter College

Equal Rights Amendment ratification push continues at Hunter College forum in Manhattan

By Max Parrott

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A damning case: Ex-Buildings Commish Eric Ulrich ‘lined his pockets’ throughout public service career, DA Bragg alleges

by Dean Moses and Ethan Stark-Miller

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine speaks outside The Theater at MSG

Manhattan officials want The Theater at MSG razed to make way for Penn Station grand hall

By Max Parrott

A couple embrace at the 9/11 memorial in Lower Manhattan

Remembering 9/11 | NYC identifies remains of two more victims nearly 22 years after terror attacks

By Ethan Stark-Miller

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about migrant crisis at Manhattan town hall

Republicans seize on Mayor Adams’ dramatic remarks that migrant crisis will ‘destroy’ NYC

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Half-life: City Council committee approves five-year extension for Madison Square Garden special permit

By Ben Brachfeld

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Biggest one yet: City opens immense Randall’s Island migrant center for 3,000 people as officials plead for fed aid amid crisis

By Dean Moses

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Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary: Mayor Adams compares his Gracie Mansion celebration to late Mayor Dinkins hosting Nelson Mandela at City Hall

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Reflection: DA Bragg discusses high profile indictments, social justice initiatives and crime with amNewYork Metro

By Dean Moses

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Youth groups rally at NYPD headquarters demanding that cops who killed Kawaski Trawick be fired

By Gabriele Holtermann

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‘Running out of resources’: Pols rally at City Hall Park for federal aid toward migrant crisis

By Dean Moses

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State reaches deal to increase number of affordable units in 5 WTC development

By Max Parrott

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New Jersey files federal lawsuit to block NYC’s congestion pricing plan; Staten Island sets up legal action

By Ben Brachfeld

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Activists, elected officials pressure City Council to pass Ryder’s Law

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Q&A: Manhattan BP Mark Levine talks 2nd Ave. Subway, housing plan, lithium battery fires and AI

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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‘Sweeping failure’: Lander audit claims handful of homeless New Yorkers removed from encampments received permanent housing

By Dean Moses

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Drag March at Tompkins Square Park celebrates self-expression amid ongoing attacks from the far right

By Bob Krasner

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PRIMARY DAY | Low turnout continues as Manhattan voters head to the polls for City Council races

By Ethan Stark-Miller, Sarah Belle Lin & Dean Moses

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Early voting kicks off citywide, but draws few crowds over holiday weekend

By Meaghan McGoldrick & Dean Moses

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Manhattan council candidates cross-endorse to strengthen odds as early voting begins

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Election Debates

WATCH: Candidates for Manhattan’s City Council District 1 seat square off in debate

By Catriona Ting-Morton

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BREAKING | Daniel Penny indicted on charges in fatal choking of Jordan Neely on Manhattan subway station

By Christian Murray and Robert Pozarycki

More from Around New York

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Week in Rewind: ICC passes on Van Cortlandt Park cricket stadium, fentanyl operation cover-up at NYC day care, uncertainties around Bally’s Throggs Neck shuttle, and Soundview ‘precinct shooter’ pleads guilty

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents on Dec. 16, 2021, in Salt Lake City.

Challenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reports

Restauranteur Victor Koenig and others at what would become Durow's Restaurant in Glendale in this 1940s photo.

Serving up the history of a classic Glendale restaurant: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

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Man arrested for choking Williamsburg driver, crashing car: NYPD