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NYC’s flying ‘Fan Man’ demands NYPD return his fan after he soars near Verrazzano Bridge
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New NYPD commissioner reverses transfers of hundreds of ‘hiding’ officers
While news of an arrest in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO dominated headlines on Dec. 9, newly appointed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch quietly launched another search of her own: determining the whereabouts of hundreds of on-duty officers.
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Scion of Bronx trash empire with spotty safety record sidesteps NYC commercial waste reform
The heir to a disgraced Bronx trash empire is teaming up with a politically connected waste hauler to form a trash collection syndicate — a move that could undermine ongoing reforms of the city’s notoriously corrupt private garbage industry.
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Paper temp tags are so last year. You can get real metal plates — untraceable ones — all over the internet.
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Jail honchos threaten to intercept and digitize mail sent to incarcerated people in NYC
As New York City’s jail system emerges from its deadliest year in a decade, a controversial proposal to intercept and digitize mail sent to incarcerated people will be reviewed by an internal committee, officials with the Board of Correction announced on Tuesday.
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At NYC school with sharpest drop in math scores, high poverty, crowded classrooms and a recent gun scare
At the Brooklyn school that saw the sharpest drop in math scores in the city since 2019, classrooms are chronically overcrowded, 81% of students have experienced poverty and students recently had to pass through metal detectors before going to class.
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In fight over trash zone system, Queens residents demand ‘waste equity’
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Autonomous cars hit the streets at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
A fleet of autonomous cars hit the pavement in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday, marking the first commercial deployment of self-driving cars in the Empire State.
