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The sign at the entrance to Rikers Island in Queens.
City Council members questioned the Department of Correction’s "convoluted" process for investigating sexual assault claims by detainees. [ more ..read more
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People gather to watch the solar eclipse outside the Brooklyn Public Library main branch on April 8, 2024.
The mayor has restored some of his unpopular cuts but is resisting calls to fully fund libraries and seven-day service at over 200 branches. [ more ..read more
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Columbia University president Minouche Shafik testifying before a House Committee on Education on April 17, 2024.
Less than a year into the job, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is facing calls to resign from both the left and right for her handling of pro-Palestinian protests at the Ivy League school. [ more ..read more
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Because the New York Post reports Sylvia Hinds-Radix was asked to resign and said no, here are your early links: Solar canopy over JFK parking lot, immersive dance theater at Green-Wood Cemetery, confusing hotel light switches and more. [ more ..read more
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Because we have a lot of both, here are your afternoon links: How to get away with obscuring your license plate, Mary Todd Lincoln comedy coming to Broadway, you don't have to shower every day, and more. [ more ..read more
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NYPD officers stand outside of the Richmond County Clerk in Staten Island on March 8, 2024.
The officers are accused of abusing a woman who was “physically helpless or mentally incapacitated” last July. [ more ..read more
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Police stand outside of locked gates at Columbia Wednesday
Students initially said the university was negotiating in bad faith, but tensions may have cooled since then. [ more ..read more
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Jennifer Levine said she was sexually assaulted by a doctor at Rikers during a routine physical exam.
In lawsuits filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, more than 30 women said they were groped, forced to perform oral sex and raped by medical staff at Rikers and other city correctional facilities. [ more ..read more
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Rendering of the interior garden planned for the former JFK Hilton, near the airport in Queens. It's being converted into affordable housing.
The former JFK Hilton is being transformed into affordable housing; project admirers wish there were more projects like it. [ more ..read more
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Rep. Donald Payne, Jr in his Cannon Building office near a picture of himself and his late father, former Rep. Donald Payne, in 2016.
The six-term representative succeeded his father more than a decade ago. [ more ..read more