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Harlem

It’s a mailing issue: Elected officials query DHS-DSS over missing Shams DaBaron’s CityFHEPS vouchers

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Sheinkopf Speaks: Hochul train rolls as governor’s race heats up

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Lower Manhattan

Can’t buy freedom: Pols, justice activists call on DAs to end cash bail system for low-level offenders

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Brooklyn drove her entire life’: New exhibit highlights Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early years in Brooklyn

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the U.S. debt ceiling from the State Dining Room of the White House

Politics

Biden to meet top U.S. bank and business leaders as debt limit chaos looms

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Lower Manhattan pols hope to set boundaries with Open Restaurants program

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Movies

‘Scream’ celebrates 25 years with special screenings throughout New York City

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Broadway

amBroadway | ‘Slave Play’ playwright calls out theater for lack of female writers, The Lark closes and more

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Caribbean Life

Immigrant New Yorkers double down on Schumer for pathway to citizenship

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Queens

Queens man cuffed for shooting that left man dead over the summer

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Brooklyn

Cops release video of suspect wanted for shooting man to death at Brooklyn housing complex

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Lawmakers, students and faculty call on CUNY admin to use stimulus funds to increasing staffing, improve COVID-19 safety

Posted on October 5, 2021

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Politics

Ethics panel seeks probe into its own approval of $5.1M Cuomo COVID-19 book deal

Posted on October 5, 2021

Painting a comeback: Senator Gillibrand proposes new bill to aid the arts

Posted on October 5, 2021

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Hochul, Queens pols call for alternatives to LaGuardia AirTrain

Posted on October 5, 2021

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Midtown Manhattan

Manhattan doorman, three others cuffed in major interstate gun smuggling ring

Posted on October 5, 2021

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NYC will not enforce restaurant customer data-sharing law while DoorDash sues

Posted on October 5, 2021

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Politics

Schumer sets U.S. debt ceiling vote for Wednesday as tensions rise

Posted on October 5, 2021

Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies during a hearing entitled ‘Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower’ in Washington

News

Facebook ‘operating in the shadows’ says whistleblower as U.S. lawmakers demand probes

Posted on October 5, 2021

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Clash in Chinatown: Activists spar with area landlord, cultural museum over city funding, alleged ‘quid pro quo’

Posted on October 5, 2021

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns to Williamsburg on Oct. 14

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Brooklyn Paper

Breaking down New York City’s shelter system

Beloved Union Square Holiday Market to return in November after 2020 hiatus

Posted on October 5, 2021

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PoliticsNY

New York redistricting – changes, and more changes ahead?

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‘Venom’, Bond pull in 4 million people to AMC theaters over weekend

Posted on October 5, 2021

Announcement of 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Two Americans win Medicine Nobel for work on heat and touch

Posted on October 5, 2021

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New York City public libraries get rid of late fines in an effort to make libraries accessible to all

Posted on October 5, 2021

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Long Island Press

Northwell Health cuts 2% of its workforce that refused to comply with COVID-19 mandate

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Brooklyn

Answering the call: NYPD ships 11 large containers full of relief supplies to rebuilding Haiti

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Bronx

Activists raise $13k for Bronx street vendor whose fruit city trashed

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Midtown Manhattan

Man shot in the leg near Times Square, suspect remains at large

Posted on October 4, 2021

Classes are held with masks being required to be worn at the Sokolowski School in Chelsea

Almost all of New York City public school staff at least partially vaccinated, officials say

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by global outage

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Long Island Press

Jacobs endorses Gov. Hochul for re-election in 2022

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Health

New Yorkers protest abortion restrictions in Texas

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Crooks on moped rob man at gunpoint on Hudson Yards street

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Whistleblower says Facebook put profit before reining in hate speech

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Skateboard-riding suspect hurls paint at George Floyd statue in Union Square Park

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Business

Curbside enthusiasm: Report finds NYC food scraps pickup must get buy-in to work financially

Posted on October 4, 2021

Lower Manhattan

‘Rikers equals death’: Street demonstration symbolic of growing public pressure on city to close jail for good

Posted on October 3, 2021

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Sermon in the street: Middle Church hosts first in-person service since fire ravaged East Village church

Posted on October 3, 2021

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Politics

Give up the ghost guns! Schumer calls on feds to speed up crackdown on phantom firearms

Posted on October 3, 2021

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Metro Philadelphia

‘Stop and Go’ takes comedy to the road and shows life’s hilarious speed bumps

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Derailed Biden infrastructure package could mean loss of $10B for New York Transit

Posted on October 2, 2021

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Celebrity Instagram content linked to negative feelings, Facebook researchers say

Posted on October 2, 2021

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Politics

State assembly dissects Rikers in questioning; inmate families speak

Posted on October 1, 2021

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News

HomeFirst Down Payment Assistance Program now offering first-time buyers up to $100,000 in support

Posted on October 1, 2021

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination event outside the Bronx Writing Academy school in New York City

90% of DOE staff now vaccinated against COVID-19, no say on how many will not be able to go into classrooms on Monday

Posted on October 1, 2021

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Veterans frame the memorial in Van Nest’s Memorial Plaza on Monday, May 26.

Veterans honored during Memorial Day ceremony at Van Nest Memorial Plaza

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Hundreds at St. John’s University protest new Customs and Border Protection partnership

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"Heightened Scrutiny" chronicles trans advocate and activist Chase Strangio arguing Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti about banning gender-affirming care for youth in Tennessee.

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