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Two-Year Wait for Manhattan Access-A-Ride Assessment Center Ends

Published   Oct 31, 2024 09:00AM

New Yorkers with disabilities who live in Manhattan no longer have to travel as far as the South Shore of Staten Island for Access-A-Ride eligibility screenings. The MTA on Wednesday opened the first assessment center in the borough since January 2022, when a center on West 13th Street stopped performing evaluations for new and existing […]
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Ready to Vote in November? THE CITY is here to help.


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Bigger Apartment Buildings on Deck for Midtown South Under A


In a move poised to alter the Garment District along with parts of Flatiron and Chelsea, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is targeting Midtown South as the first area where it’s flexing the city’s new powers to permit larger residential ... Read more

City Officials Open Three Probes Into Secret, Multi-Million-


Last month Jesse Hamilton, a longtime ally of Mayor Eric Adams who oversees the city’s real estate transactions at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), stepped off a plane at JFK Airport returning from a trip to Jap ... Read more

MTA Seeks Blueprints for Interborough Express Spanning Brooklyn and Queens 

Published   Oct 29, 2024 09:34PM

The next step for a proposed light-rail transit line between Brooklyn and Queens along 14 miles of existing freight tracks will be preliminary design work, MTA officials said Tuesday. The Interborough Express, a rail link between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights, would have 19 stops and connect to 17 subway lines and the Long Island […]
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Eric Adams Takes Swings at Media and Mayoral Rivals — But


At his weekly briefing with reporters Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams took digs at the media, his competitors for next year’s mayoral primary, and, not for the first time, City Comptroller Brad Lander. But with just one week to go before the presi ... Read more

NYC Film and TV Employment Plummets as Studios Seek Cheaper


New York City’s film and TV industry, which never completely recovered from the actors’ and writers’ strikes in 2023, is contracting again as streaming services cut back on the number of scripted shows they are commissioning. The prospec ... Read more

Staten Island ‘Breakwaters’ Stand as Monument to Sandy a


Less than a quarter-mile off Staten Island’s southernmost shore, eight rocky structures rise from the ocean and run parallel to the beach.  Called Living Breakwaters, the project brings together natural processes and constructed techniq ... Read more