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The Rev. Calvin Butts left behind a legacy of prayer and political activism

Butts died Friday at home New York of pancreatic cancer. He was 73. The pastor and powerbroker lived a life filled with prayer and political activism.

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Rogue employee hacks New York Post website with extremist, hate-filled headlines

NEW YORK — It was an inside job.

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First-ever female commissioner to lead NYC fire department

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed acting Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh to lead the department on a permanent basis

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Hochul spokesperson slams New York Post as hacked account posts vile tweets

Paper ‘has long fostered an ugly, toxic conversation on their front pages and social accounts,’ spokesperson says

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Commentary: As border crisis continues, where should migrants go?

“Where should officials who are overwhelmed by the number of migrants coming into their cities and into their shelters … send the migrants?”

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National Guard troops are deployed at NYC homeless shelters reeling from migrant influx

NEW YORK — National Guard troops are being deployed to New York City's homeless shelters to assist day-to-day operations as the shelter system remains near a breaking point due to a huge influx of Latin American migrants, the Daily News has learned.

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Far fewer migrants now coming to NYC thanks to Biden, says Mayor Adams

NEW YORK — The flood of migrants coming into New York City has slowed to a trickle, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday as he praised President Joe Biden’s “decompression” strategy to lower the number of asylum seekers who’ve strained the city’s social services system.

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Why did police reform push stall?

After widespread demonstrations, a spike in violent crime shifted the narrative around public safety

Salon

Zeldin's crime message resonates in New York governor's race

Republican congressman Lee Zeldin has focused his campaign for New York governor on hammering Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul over rising violent crime

The Independent UK

Subway passenger killed in horror fall as clothes catch in train dragging him to tracks

A man has died after his clothes got caught in a New York City subway car, pulling him into the path of another train

Daily Mirror

As subway crime soars, MTA pushes to ban certain criminals from NY's transit system

NEW YORK — As subway crime continues to soar, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is urging judges and district attorneys to help ban “certain criminals” from the transit system, the New York Daily News has learned.

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New York Gov. Hochul says state red flag law is working, citing risk order data

NEW YORK — Two days after teaming up with New York Mayor Eric Adams to roll out a new subway safety plan, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday joined state Attorney General Letitia James to detail enhanced efforts in the state’s anti-gun battle, including a marked expansion in use of the…

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Gov. Hochul, Mayor Adams roll out new subway crime crackdown and plan for the system’s homeless

NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, joined by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, rolled out a new plan Saturday with a promised police surge to make the city’s 3.6 million daily straphangers stay and feel safer on the subway while providing help to the system’s homeless population.

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New York City Announces Public School Holiday On Diwali From 2023

Diwali will be a holiday for the New York City public school starting next year in 2023, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Editorial: Open your eyes: Stop debating whether NYC has a serious crime problem on its hands

A small but vocal contingent of the city’s political class characterizes those of us who are alarmed by increasing crime — and want more proactive policing, more effective prosecution and further refinement of state laws to ensure that lawbreakers face swift, sure consequences — as nothing but reactionaries. The city…

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Diwali will be honored as an official holiday in New York City schools

Diwali celebrates lightness over darkness and is celebrated by more than 1 billion Hindu people each year. It also has its own versions in the Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism religions.

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New York vows to fight rats on their home turf: curbside garbage piles

The city's sanitation commissioner vows that voracious vermin are "absolutely going to hate" the latest rule.

Al Jazeera

New York City opens tent shelter for bussed-in asylum seekers

Emergency centre aims to house about 500 single men, many of them from Venezuela, amid Republican bussing campaign.

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The U.S. creates a legal pathway for Venezuelan migrants, but many won't qualify

The Biden administration has announced a new legal pathway to discourage Venezuelan migrants from crossing the border illegally. But many may not qualify because they lack financial sponsors.

The Independent UK

New Yorkers banned from taking out trash until 8pm as rat numbers surge: ‘This is not Ratatouille’

“The biggest swing that you can take at cleaning up our streets is to shut down the all-night, all-you-can-eat rat buffet,” NYC Sanitation commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

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As NYC struggles to manage the migrant crisis, some New Yorkers open their own homes

NEW YORK — Melanie Van Orden is a volunteer with NYC ICE Watch, a mutual aid group working with the migrants flooding into the city. One night, late, she got a text: A group of migrants was wandering the city looking for a place to stay the night.

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Mayor Adams releases 2021 tax forms, which appear to contradict NYC financial disclosure

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ most recent tax forms, which he released to the press Thursday night, appear to contradict financial disclosures he made to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board for the 2021 calendar year.

Reason

Brickbat: You Scratch My Back

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and city Schools Chancellor David Banks have each hired the other's girlfriend for six-figure-salary jobs. Adams named Banks' girlfriend, Sheena Wright, as one of his deputy mayors shortly before he was sworn in last December. Deputy mayors made $251,982 in fiscal year 2021. Banks,…

Benzinga

Mayor Eric Adams Appoints Dasheeda Dawson As Cannabis NYC Founding Director

NYC Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) Commissioner Kevin D.

The Independent UK

New York City to open second migrant shelter for asylum seekers in Times Square hotel

Row Hotel will house up to 200 families as city urges support for 18,000 people seeking asylum

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