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Lawler’s Super PAC Bill Takes Aim at a Loophole Both Parties Have Used, and at His Opponent
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Riverdale’s Community Board Reads the Fine Print on the Five Charter Questions, and Stops Short of Telling Anyone How to Vote
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Bayside Learns the New Rules: CB 11 Is on the City’s Housing “Fast Track,” and the Council Veto Is Gone
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Ten Seconds in a Queens Attic: A Stabbing, a Police Shooting and Two Accounts of a Woman With a Knife
A 48-year-old man faces attempted murder charges after a stabbing inside a 149th Street home. Officers responding to the 911 calls shot…
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“A Killer Cop Lives Here”: Two Brooklyn Activists, a Stalking Charge and the Edge of the First Amendment
NYPD warrant officers arrested Jamie Kowalski and Daniel Koh over fliers naming the officer who shot Eudes Pierre in 2021. Prosecutors call…
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Harvard’s $68 Billion Paradox: A Banner Year for the Endowment, a Smaller University
Harvard’s fiscal 2026 report shows a 27.1 percent return, a $100 million surplus and a $2.2 billion SpaceX stake. It also shows…
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Rhode Island Asks Voters for $600 Million, and a Museum Tests the Limits of Their Generosity
Five bond questions on Tuesday’s ballot make up the largest borrowing package ever put to Rhode Islanders. Voters have approved 36 straight…
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Lawler’s Super PAC Bill Takes Aim at a Loophole Both Parties Have Used, and at His Opponent
Rep. Mike Lawler’s Stop Illegal Super PAC Coordination Act would bar joint candidate–super PAC committees from buying TV and digital ads. It came three weeks before Election Day, in a toss-up race where Republicans have filed an FEC complaint over exactly that kind of spending…
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On Navy Street, 1,502 Apartments and a Neighborhood Asking What It Gets
Alloy Development wants two towers of 73 and 63 stories across from the Farragut Houses, with a new school and $470 million in promised benefits. The land-use hearing showed how far apart the two sides of the street remain.
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Doughnuts, Hecklers and the Working Families Line: How the First Weekend of Early Voting Played in New York
Mayor Mamdani voted for Governor Hochul on the Working Families line and brought Dunkin’ for the poll workers. Bruce Blakeman ran a three-borough blitz calling the mayor a communist and the governor…
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Under the Harlem Meer, the City Buries a $35.7 Million Answer to Flash Floods
Mayor Mamdani, Gov. Hochul and the Central Park Conservancy broke ground on a pump-and-pipe system meant to turn three Olmsted-era water bodies into a storm sponge for Harlem and East Harlem, and…
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Lawler’s Super PAC Bill Takes Aim at a Loophole Both Parties Have Used, and at His Opponent
Rep. Mike Lawler’s Stop Illegal Super PAC Coordination Act would bar joint candidate–super PAC committees from buying TV and digital ads. It came three weeks before Election Day, in a toss-up race…
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Rhode Island Asks Voters for $600 Million, and a Museum Tests the Limits of Their Generosity
Five bond questions on Tuesday’s ballot make up the largest borrowing package ever put to Rhode Islanders. Voters have approved 36 straight bonds since 2006. The question is whether a $45 million…
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Ten Seconds in a Queens Attic: A Stabbing, a Police Shooting and Two Accounts of a Woman With a Knife
A 48-year-old man faces attempted murder charges after a stabbing inside a 149th Street home. Officers responding to the 911 calls shot a woman holding a knife. The NYPD says she moved…
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Ziel Feldman Takes Another Run at the Marquand, Now at $27.5 Million
The HFZ founder and his wife, Helene, have relisted their black-marble triplex at 11 East 68th Street for $27.5 million. That is $11.5 million less than they asked in 2020 and a…
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Forty Years After Newport, the LeFrak Heirs Are Learning That Jersey City Expects More Than Buildings
The LeFrak Organization’s waterfront city across the Hudson turns 40 with a doubled charitable fund, a next generation preparing to take over, and a tenant campaign over 271 moderate-income apartments. How the…
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BIG Stacks a Horseshoe on the Gowanus. The Canal Deserves the Open End.
Criticism/opinion: Bjarke Ingels Group’s 27-story, 1,000-plus-unit tower at 175 Third Street broke ground last month in Gowanus. Its best idea is a gesture toward the water, and its biggest risk is that…
