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It's Thursday in New York City, where the stretch from Astoria down through North Brooklyn and into Bed-Stuy has been deemed — affirmatively — the "Commie Corridor."
Michael Lange, an author and DSA member, said he coined the term to help people understand the political movement, "how [Mayor Zohran] Mamdani won and particularly the places he did so well."
Taking suggestions from Lange and others, we recently toured the corridor and some of its notable political venues: a plus-size vintage clothing store in Greenpoint, a worker-owned queer coffee shop and cocktail bar in Bushwick, the Bed-Stuy home of a Black liberation organization.
A 17-year-old riding an electric motorbike was killed in Lower Manhattan yesterday after he collided with a Chevy Tahoe SUV while coming off the Brooklyn Bridge, police said.
A controversial bitcoin mining operation in the Finger Lakes is seeking to transform into a data center, despite Gov. Kathy Hochul’s moratorium on new facilities powering the AI boom.
The city's health department said that publicly outing certain Upper East Side buildings as potential sources of the Legionnaires' disease outbreak boosted those buildings' compliance with the city's cooling tower testing laws — but citywide, compliance has barely gone up.
The long-stalled plan to build the floating +POOL in the East River is once again delayed.
"It would be comforting knowing they just took a look": A resident of an old office tower that was converted to apartments by the firm MetroLoft said he'd like his building to get inspected after a different MetroLoft conversion project on 42nd Street almost resulted in the structure collapsing.
Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers are fighting an effort in Congress to create permanent Daylight Saving Time, arguing that the current clock changes in the spring and fall work better with their prayer schedules.
The Department of Finance last week posted more than 900,000 properties that “may” be subject to the new surcharge, but a City Hall official clarified Wednesday that letters went out to only 17,000 addresses it suspects are second homes worth more than $5 million.
