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Why New York Has Faltered in Making Childbirth Safer for Black Mothers
Proposals to reverse stark racial disparities in who dies during childbirth face deep-rooted obstacles, including hospital quality and the pandemic’s…
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New York City Sues Bus Companies That Brought 30,000 Migrants From Texas
The lawsuit accuses 17 companies of carrying out a plan by the governor of Texas to send tens of thousands…
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The Newest ‘Godzilla’ Film Is Stranger Than Fiction
Effects artists annihilate cities in movies all the time. Tokyo really was destroyed, a reality the best Godzilla stories have…
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Will Detroit’s Comeback Benefit Detroiters?
I found it online: a weary, five-bedroom American Foursquare house on a block in Detroit that had seen better days.…
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He Was One of the Central Park Five. Now He’s Councilman Yusef Salaam.
Yusef Salaam stood at the front of the City Council Chamber in Lower Manhattan with his right hand raised and…
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I Want a City, Not a Museum
Some years ago, as my mother and I were walking on New York City’s Upper West Side, she pointed out…
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In a City Defined by History, Chinatown’s Champions Fear New Arena for 76ers
Deborah Wei first wore a “No Stadium in Chinatown” T-shirt emblazoned with red English letters and Chinese characters in 2000,…
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Adams’s Effort to Control Migrant Buses Faces Instant Obstacles
A move by Mayor Eric Adams meant to slow the surge of new arrivals being sent to New York from…
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In Bid to Slow Migrant Surge, Adams Restricts Bus Arrivals Into New York
In an executive order, Mayor Eric Adams required bus companies to provide advance notice of trips or face criminal charges.
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Board Game Cafe Workers Went on a Quest for a Union and Won
“There is not a group of people better at organizing than a bunch of nerds,” said a worker at one…