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Street Vendors Party To Celebrate Historic City Reforms
About 250 people gathered in Greenwich Village to celebrate a City Council vote to create 21,500 new vending permits decades in the making.

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About 250 people gathered in Greenwich Village to celebrate a City Council vote to create 21,500 new vending permits decades in the making.

At Mount Sinai and Montefiore, nurses approved their contracts and will return to work this weekend.
Experts cited the high cost of living in the city and state as one of the key factors that deters immigrants from moving here.
The Pride Hockey Alliance has been bringing “hot queer friends” together for years before the buzziest show on ice.
It’s the first all-woman slate to run for governor and lieutenant governor in New York state history.
Officials pleaded with President Donald Trump to keep the mammoth public-works project alive.
The mother and her two young children were not able to contact the outside world for nearly three weeks. They were confined in Louisiana.
“Former Mayor Eric Adams handed the next administration a poisoned chalice,” Mamdani said.
The number of artists living in the city has dropped 4% in the past seven years, a new report found.
The transportation and sanitation agencies and adjacent property owners all play a role in clearing the way for bus riders.
City schools did not see a systemwide meltdown, but pockets of families and educators from across the boroughs shared instances of glitches.
Lisa Garcia, a veteran of the federal EPA and an outspoken critic of President Trump, will succeed Rohit Aggarwala.
Meanwhile, Mamdani continues to say that corporations and the wealthy should pay higher taxes.
The city has failed to claim state money for indigent defense, deepening a staffing crisis.
The contract with the publicly-owned corporation that allows ICE to park vehicles on Pier 40 won’t be renewed when it expires in late June.
An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say.
For ride-share drivers who burn through a tank per day while shuttling customers around the city, the octane difference is more obvious.
The governor is raising millions of dollars for her reelection campaign, but the public doesn’t know who she’s meeting with.
Health care is a major sticking point in negotiations as contract talks are set to restart at Montefiore, Mount Sinai and NY-Presbyterian.
The new leaders selected by the new speaker represent a changing of the guard.