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SummerStage unveils lineup of free shows in Central Park and across NYC
New York City's SummerStage festival is back this year, and the list of 85 free or benefit shows is now here. The festival's 38th iteration...
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Police arrest 15-year-old in connection to February's fatal Bronx subway shooting
Two other teenagers were also arrested in the weeks after the shooting. He faces murder, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon charges. [ more › ]
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NYC law department employee pleads guilty to stealing $600K in checks, prosecutors say
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York attends a news conference. Officials say he stole around 40 checks payable to the law department. [ more › ]
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Arrests made at NYU as cops clear protesters’ encampment
Police move in to clear an encampment at NYU on Monday, April 22 2024. The clearing of the encampment at NYU comes five days after the NYPD arrested more than 100 protesters who put up tents on the lawn at Columbia University. [ more › ]
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NYC lacked staff, equipment, communication for Ophelia, comptroller report says
A person pushes a barricade floating on a flooded E 10th Street amid a coastal storm on Sept. 29, 2023 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. The report says the city didn’t adequately warn New Yorkers or have equipment to mitigate September’s major storm. [ more › ]
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Columbia University protests carry on with tents on campus and NYPD outside the gates
The Columbia University protest encampment on Monday, April 22, 2024. Hundreds of people gathered in and outside the school’s Morningside Heights campus as classes went remote under the administration’s orders. [ more › ]
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Extra Extra: Opossums in apartments
Because "rehabbers" are caring for squirrels, pigeons, rats and other critters in their New York City apartments, here are your afternoon links: Balthazar mice, Nova Knicks, status sleep and more. [ more › ]
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Poisonous vapors may be affecting over 1K buildings in Greenpoint and East Williamsburg
A dingy corner in Brooklyn that sits atop the Meeker Avenue Plume. The EPA announced a $1 million plan to address the Meeker Avenue plume. [ more › ]
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'Good cause' eviction protections are now in place in NY. Here's what that means.
The lead sponsor of the Good Cause measure says the law is historic. New state eviction protections leave out a huge swath of renters. Are you covered? [ more › ]
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Early Addition: Can the Justice Department stop NYPD officers from parking on the sidewalk?
At least eight people were injured after a man driving a U-Haul plowed into several pedestrians and drove onto the sidewalk in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn on Monday morning. Because the feds are threatening to crack down, here are your early links: Central Park pickleball, grunion sex, free MTA bus pilot to end and more. [ more › ]
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NY’s highest court considers whether Queens prosecutors discriminated against Black jurors
Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens. In one case, the trial judge said the prosecutor “got a bad vibe” from a Black prospective jurors responses prior jury service. [ more › ]
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Here's how quickly a New Yorker can come to the brink of homelessness
Over 38% of renters with disabilities pay at least half their income on housing, according to city data. Over a third of New York City tenants with disabilities pay at least half their income on rent, according to city housing data. [ more › ]