Tag: New York

Dozens of Public Housing Officials Arrested in Record Corruption Bust

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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The Most Memorable Rap Beefs In Hip-Hop History

Photo: Chris McKay // Theo Wargo (Getty Images) If you can give it, you gotta be able to take it. There are so many elements of this beef involving Lil Wayne, Birdman, Pharell, and the Clipse that I don’t even want to get into. All you need to know is that Pusha T felt compelled […]

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Andrew Cuomo Behaved Worse Toward Women Than We Even Knew

“I’ve been on the border, I’ve talked to the border agents. Even the border agents themselves are scratching their heads, but these are good Americans, and they’re trying to obey their boss—but they don’t agree with that policy either,” Stitt began. “Of course, the National Guard soldiers are Texans and Oklahomans and Tennessee folks. These […]

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Andrew Cuomo Behaved Worse Toward Women Than We Even Knew

“I’ve been on the border, I’ve talked to the border agents. Even the border agents themselves are scratching their heads, but these are good Americans, and they’re trying to obey their boss—but they don’t agree with that policy either,” Stitt began. “Of course, the National Guard soldiers are Texans and Oklahomans and Tennessee folks. These […]

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Andrew Cuomo Sexually Harassed Even More Women Than Initially Reported

“I’ve been on the border, I’ve talked to the border agents. Even the border agents themselves are scratching their heads, but these are good Americans, and they’re trying to obey their boss—but they don’t agree with that policy either,” Stitt began. “Of course, the National Guard soldiers are Texans and Oklahomans and Tennessee folks. These […]

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Trump Will Allegedly Be Delivering Part Of The Closing Argument In His New York Case Himself, Which Ought To Be Something (If It Even Happens)

Is it a good idea to let Donald Trump defend himself? Even his closest cronies would likely say no way. The former president is a loose cannon. Let to his druthers, he’ll spout surreal gaffes or say things like that he hopes the nation’s economy crashes before November’s election. So take this with a quarry […]

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Hidden Passageway Beneath New York Chabad Building Drives Chaos and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories

Visitors pray outside 770 Eastern Parkway “Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters” Brooklyn in March, 2020. A flyer in the foreground pays tribute to Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.  Photo via Getty Images A bizarre situation unfolding within the Orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement is going viral in the wider world, driving a raft of antisemitic conspiracy theories online and […]

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New York Attorney General Is Hitting Trump Where It Hurts: A Real Estate Ban

“We’re one of the worst in the nation, and that’s been true for a while now,” Bernard said. “Parents are going to skip meals, or you’re going to stretch meals farther. The charitable side will try and fill that gap. But there are going to be some struggles.” Although Oklahoma has rejected the summer program, […]

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New York Attorney General Wants Trump Banned From Real Estate

“We’re one of the worst in the nation, and that’s been true for a while now,” Bernard said. “Parents are going to skip meals, or you’re going to stretch meals farther. The charitable side will try and fill that gap. But there are going to be some struggles.” Although Oklahoma has rejected the summer program, […]

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New York Attorney General Wants to Hit Trump Where It Hurts

“We’re one of the worst in the nation, and that’s been true for a while now,” Bernard said. “Parents are going to skip meals, or you’re going to stretch meals farther. The charitable side will try and fill that gap. But there are going to be some struggles.” Although Oklahoma has rejected the summer program, […]

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“I Am Done”: Sean Hannity Announces He’s Finally Leaving New York

Some of the biggest purchases included members on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee scooping up health care stocks in 435 separate transactions, buying financial services stocks in 328 separate transactions, and technology stocks in 272 separate transactions. The House Armed Services Committee saw similar conflicts, with members scooping up health care stocks in 392 […]

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The Good, the Bad, and the Most Important Climate Lesson of 2023

I spent the past week glued to my phone, as I’m sure many of you did, scrolling through endless news and horrible videos of the violence in the Middle East. Sometimes, when global disasters or conflicts happen, people will whip up an infographic pointing out the (occasionally tenuous) connections to climate change; I generally roll […]

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How Hyper-Local Meme Accounts Took Over the World

Looking back on the biggest stories of the year. You would have noticed your Instagram experience this year was punctuated by accounts commentating on specific localities and the types of people found in them. 2023 saw the explosion of hyper-local accounts like Real Housewives of Clapton (RHOC), Socks House Meeting and Nolita Dirtbag – IG […]

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Eric Adams Thinks New York City Is Great Because 9/11 Can Happen at Any Moment

By 2003, Thomas’s wife, Ginni, had begun working at the Heritage Foundation and was making a salary in the low six figures. The Heritage Foundation is part of the Koch brothers’ network. By at least 2010, Clarence Thomas began secretly participating in Koch donor network events, which put him in touch with wealthy and influential […]

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Mazi Melesa Pilip, Black Woman Picked By GOP To Run For George Santos’ House Seat, Is Registered Democrat

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Facebook The Black woman who was chosen by New York Republicans to run for the Congressional seat recently vacated by George Santos‘ expulsion is actually a registered Democrat, reports have revealed. Mazi Melesa Pilip, an elected official in Long Island, was on Thursday identified through anonymous sources as Republicans’ preferred candidate […]

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Republicans Have a Replacement for George Santos—and She’s a Doozy

According to Gabriel, Johnson has never been interested in environmental causes—a political preference due to his creationist beliefs, which lead him to think that climate change is a function of the planet’s shifting cycles rather than a manmade crisis. “The climate is changing, but the question is: Is the climate changing because of the natural […]

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Is New York Our Best Hope for Renewable Energy?

After Wednesday’s campaign launch in Battery Park, I asked Mike Paulson, associate director of the Brooklyn-based Sane Energy Project which aims “to replace fracked gas infrastructure with 100% democratically controlled, renewable energy,” how New York could avoid the problems currently bedeviling renewables in neighboring states. “It’s disappointing and concerning that these projects are in jeopardy,” […]

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Renewables Projects Are Failing. Can New York Buck the Trend?

After Wednesday’s campaign launch in Battery Park, I asked Mike Paulson, associate director of the Brooklyn-based Sane Energy Project, which aims “to replace fracked gas infrastructure with 100% democratically controlled, renewable energy,” how New York could avoid the problems currently bedeviling renewables in neighboring states. “It’s disappointing and concerning that these projects are in jeopardy,” […]

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Ex-White House Adviser’s Viral Islamophobic Rants Under Investigation by Hate Crimes Unit

Mohamed Hussein (L) and his employer Islam Moustafa (R) said their food cart was repeatedly targeted by a man since identified as former White House adviser Stuart Seldowitz. Photo by Alyza Enriquez. NEW YORK CITY – New York police’s hate crimes unit is investigating after videos surfaced showing a former White House adviser making Islamophobic […]

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These are the top VC locations in the USA for startups — and jobs

It will surprise few that San Francisco is deemed to have the most developed VC ecosystems in the world. That’s according to a new report issued by financial data and software company PitchBook, which also found that the U.S. and Asia account for 85% of the 20 most-developed VC ecosystems, and 65% of the 20 […]

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Judge Threatens to Throw Trump out of Court for Blabbering Too Much

Come Friday morning, however, Kise was back to reiterating his explosive remarks. “The entire country, if not the world, is watching this proceeding,” Kise said, according to The Daily Beast. “And the U.S. heretofore has been a model for integrity and impartiality in the judicial system, since its founding. Nothing in here should create any […]

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‘The View’ Dismantled Ivanka Trump’s ‘Mother Of The Year’ Excuse To Get Out Of Testifying In Her Dad’s Manhattan Fraud Trial

The ladies of The View were not buying Ivanka Trump‘s latest attempt to get out of testifying in her father’s Manhattan fraud trial, and neither did the judge. Ivanka attempted to delay her testimony by claiming that traveling from Florida to New York would be an “undue hardship” in the “middle of a school week.” […]

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Jimmy Kimmel Laughed At ‘Tweedle-Even-Dumber’ Eric Trump For Claiming He’s Just A ‘Construction Guy’ Who Pours Concrete

Jimmy Kimmel had a feast laid before thanks to Donald Trump‘s eldest and least brightest sons took the stand in the former president’s fraud trial that’s unfolding in New York. The late night host was particularly focused on Eric Trump, who tried to distance himself from the Trump Organization’s shady finances by basically claiming he’s […]

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Jimmy Kimmel Laughed At ‘Tweedle-Even-Dumber’ Eric Trump For Claiming He’s Just A ‘Construction Guy’ Who Pours Concrete

Jimmy Kimmel had a feast laid before thanks to Donald Trump‘s eldest and least brightest sons took the stand in the former president’s fraud trial that’s unfolding in New York. The late night host was particularly focused on Eric Trump, who tried to distance himself from the Trump Organization’s shady finances by basically claiming he’s […]

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NYC Is Giving Public Lands to For-Profit Developers That Price Out Locals, Report Finds

New York City is giving away public lands to for-profit developers that build housing units largely unaffordable to locals, a new report has found.  The report, released today by the New York City Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI) found that nonprofit developers building on city-owned land made 38 percent of their units affordable to the most […]

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Judge to Donald Trump: STFU or Go to Jail

Even among his allies, Jordan’s shtick is beginning to “wear a little thin,” and he has possibly “worn out his welcome,” one senior House GOP member told Fox News’s Chad Pergram. Jordan’s long-shot bid to become speaker has only grown more fraught as the days have dragged on. In his first floor vote, 20 Republicans […]

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The Canonization of Lou Reed

All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electric shockthey said they’d let you live at home with mom and dadinstead of mental hospitalsbut every time you tried to read a bookyou couldn’t get to page 17’cause you forgot where you were so you couldn’t even read. Whatever the rationale for Reed’s ECT, his relationship to […]

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The Lo Lifes: The Hip-Hop Shoplifters Who Birthed Street Culture

“Cross Flags”: the Lo Lifes (clockwise from top left: Naughty 40, Bek Live, Big Vic Lo aka Thirstin Howl The 3rd, and Disco) in Times Square, 1988. | Photo: Fashion Killa/Thirstin Howl The 3rd The mission: get in and get as much Polo as you can. Walk inside the store. Saks Fifth Avenue. Or Bloomingdale’s. […]

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Republicans Are Finally Coming for George Santos

Miller’s amendment would ban any flags or pennants other than the U.S. flag, the flag of a U.S. state or territory, or the flag for prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action. His measure could therefore also affect some of the more outrageous protest signs hung around Congress by members of his own party. […]

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