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MTA workers say subway mayhem, violence has increased FREE

Responding to the recent series of violent attacks in the subway, among them the fatal burning of Debrina Kawam on an F train in Coney Island and the stabbing of an MTA worker at the Pelham Parkway station, Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Commissioner...
On a late December day in 1964 I visited Granny at the Hazleton State Hospital, an old brick building in Pennsylvania once known as the Miners’ Hospital. She was on the first floor in a big open space. Large windows and screens, wheelchairs and...
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Workers who clean Con Edison facilities in Manhattan have turned up the pressure in the new year to win improved benefits and pay from Nelson Service Systems, the contractor employing dozens of cleaners across the city. Many of the workers...
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Dozens of lawmakers are urging the governor to increase funding for programs that provide student loan assistance for public defenders, public interest attorneys and prosecutors across the state. Nearly 70 legislators signed onto a Jan. 16 letter...
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Following the reelection late last year of Mike Carrube to a third five-year term as president of the Subway Surface Supervisors Association, union members are raising the alarm about what they say is the union leaders' quashing of dissent. The...
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Although doctors in the city’s public hospital system have temporarily halted a planned work stoppage, their disappointment over staffing shortages and a policy that has halved appointment times for new patients hasn't gone away in the...
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Legislation ensuring that city employees who move to a different agency don’t experience a lapse in their healthcare coverage was signed into law by Mayor Eric Adams Monday.
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About 90 percent of the members of the Professional Staff Congress who voted have chosen to ratify a contract agreement with the City University of New York that will provide compounded raises of 13.4 percent and a $3,000 ratification bonus, the...
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Bronx contractor hit with felony wage-theft counts
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last week announced the indictment of Kendis Paul, the owner of KEP Construction, on charges of stealing $67,000 from 10 former employees working at an Upper West Side construction site from September 2023...
NYPD sergeants’ union, city remain deadlocked on a contract FREE
Hundreds of NYPD sergeants and their allies converged on West 125th Street, across the boulevard from the Apollo Theater and just ahead of Mayor Eric Adams’ State of the City address at the storied venue last Thursday, to decry the city’s stance...
Short of Council support, retirees vow to prevail on Medicare issue
City Council legislation that would preserve municipal retirees’ health benefits has so far found little traction, but advocates have vowed to persist in their effort to defeat the Adams administration’s plan to switch the former city workers into...
Ex-Rikers CO admits to bribery count for smuggling cocaine, K2, chicken wings into jail
A former city correction officer who conspired to smuggle narcotics, food and other contraband into a Rikers Island jail in exchange for cash payments from inmates has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges. Ghislaine Barrientos, of Mount...
Atlantic Theater production workers authorize strike
Almost a year after taking a near-unanimous vote to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, workers at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company are ratcheting up pressure on management and threatening to strike if...
NYPD graduates 625 'Finest'
The NYPD graduated 625 new officers Tuesday in a Tuesday ceremony at Madison Square Garden following their six-month stint at the Police Academy. A quarter of the class is female. Of the newly minted cops, 145 come from 35 different countries...
Public hospital doctors postpone strike as talks resume
Doctors at four hospitals within the city’s public hospital system have agreed to temporarily postpone an unfair labor practice strike that was set to start Jan. 13.  Last month, physicians at Jacobi Medical...
Overall crime again dropped citywide in 2024
The fatal stabbing of three persons in broad daylight. The immolation of a woman in a subway car. The execution-style shooting death of a CEO outside a Midtown hotel. Those high profile murders and other violent crimes had residents on edge in...
Public-sector retirees can now collect their full Social Security
President Joe Biden signed legislation Sunday that will ensure around 2.5 million public sector workers reap the entirety of their Social Security benefits. The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision, and the...
AGs enter settlement to stop no-poach agreements with building services company FREE
A building services company has agreed to cancel existing no-poach agreements and to refrain from entering any new ones after a joint investigation by the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey. The probe by New York Attorney General...
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To the editor: Police pursuits are a controversial topic. Nevertheless, they are a necessary, albeit dangerous, part of police work. Nearly every day, pursuits end with injuries and/or death. Regrettably, in many instances, those who are injured...
To the editor: In one of his last interviews as president, Joe Biden told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that he “spent too much time on the policy and not enough time on the politics.” That sums up how American elections have been decided during...
To the editor: Holy bell-bottoms, Batman. Butch from the Little Rascals is president of the USA and his cabinet is a mix of Spanky, “F Troop,” “Hogan's Heroes,” “Gilligan's Island” and “Petticoat Junction.” Not to be left out is a James Bond-type...
To the editor: Policing is at a critical crossroads. Most departments are grappling with severe staffing shortages. Agencies simply cannot recruit or retain enough officers. The crisis is so bad in New York City that over the past eight years,...
To the editor: Thank you to the four women associate justices and Chief Justice Roberts for saving our respect for the law and having the guts to reject Donald Trump’s attempt to erase his 34 felonies. They proved that even with all of his money,...
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Stay/Go/Yes/No? FREE

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement deports convicted felons who committed heinous violent crimes while in this country illegally, let there be neither obstacles nor crass public rejoicing. Their removal is morally imperative, but neither...

Our laws need to grow up FREE

Subway crime is not in our heads and never has been. Very few New Yorkers remember Noel Perez, but his brutal murder on the subway nearly 50 years ago made headlines. As the train pulled into the 148th Street station, on March 19, 1978, a...
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Tyranny, equity and blueberry pastry

It could have cost my waiter his job.  But he kept his eye on the prize of his means of subsistence and held his tongue during management's reprimand for his forgetting to charge me an extra couple of bucks for a two-inch blueberry pastry...
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Choosing an income-tax professional FREE

If you pay someone to prepare your tax return, choose that preparer wisely. Taxpayers are legally responsible for what’s on their tax return even if it is prepared by someone else. Currently, New York State has no licensing laws for tax preparers...
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Important changes for the 2024 tax-filing season: Part 2 FREE

The IRS has made a variety of other changes that may affect your tax liability for tax year 2024. Here’s a detailed look at these adjustments: • New capital gain tax threshold. Capital gains taxes are levied on the sale of capital assets, such...

Important changes for the 2024 tax-filing season: Part 1 FREE

In response to inflation, The IRS has adjusted marginal tax brackets and the standard deduction for 2024. As a result of the changes, many Americans will be able to keep more of their 2024 income. Other big changes include increases to the...
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