Mayor Zohran Mamdani has frequently spoken about his hopes of streamlining city government, cutting through the red tape and bureaucratic roadblocks that stymie progress. According to his Commission on Government …
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Millionaires who captured more than half of all of New York City’s income growth since the pandemic. A poverty rate that keeps climbing and is much higher than the nation …
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Nearly 2,000 homeowners who the Mamdani administration threatened with a new pied-à-terre tax have already been told they won’t have to pay because their primary residences were erroneously tagged as …
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Wedged in a corner of Kips Bay, near the East River and NYU Langone hospital, four low-slung buildings contain 40 apartments. Most are empty. Michael Heletz, founder of Queens-based Excel …
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Nearly six months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a raft of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, few New York City small businesses have benefited from tariff refunds, even as they …
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A New York punk scene legend was killed by a mail truck while walking home after performing at an East Village watering hole on Friday night. Chester “Chet” Mazur was …
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Jennifer Peña raced home from middle school on a Friday afternoon two weeks before Christmas 1999, trying to beat her 3:30 p.m. curfew at her family’s Soundview apartment in The …
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A state judicial oversight commission ordered the removal of a Queens Civil Court judge after finding he continued practicing law after taking the bench, allowed an unlicensed twice-convicted felon to …
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The teachers union said it is considering a legal challenge on behalf of more than 180 retired paraprofessionals whose disability pensions were slashed after the city’s pension system found their …
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Amid a decline in foreclosures citywide, the number of homeowners in The Bronx facing such cases has nearly doubled from the prior year, highlighting worrying economic trends in the borough. …