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By an amazing coincidence, a current property dispute is occurring at the site of a storied property law case.
An escalator in a subway station is considered a "component" but a fire suppression system in the same station is considered a "finished product." Why? Because the bureaucrats say so.
The 2nd Circuit reasoned that the government hasn't necessarily taken a landlord's property when it forces him or her to operate at a loss while renting to a tenant he or she never agreed to host.
Despite what you may have heard, many "recyclables" sent to recycling plants are never recycled at all.
A surveillance state is no less tyrannical when the snoops really believe it's for your own protection.
The city has not yet announced whether it will fight the order in court.
Transit officials and transit-boosting politicians in D.C., L.A., and New York City are warming to the idea of being totally dependent on taxpayer subsidies.
Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.
The mayor is proposing a long list of helpful, but marginal, reforms that would speed up the city's approval processes for new housing.
Plus: Destigmatizing sex work, free markets and grocery store mergers, and more...
Plus: The editors consider a listener question on the involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.
The New York Civil Liberties Union is fighting about a dozen different lawsuits against stonewalling police departments.
Civil liberties groups say Adams' plan violates constitutional rights protecting people with mental illness from being confined against their will simply for existing.
The legendary art director talks about the aesthetics of rebellion and his strange journey from Screw magazine to The New York Times.
The legendary art director on Greenwich Village in the '60s, the aesthetics of rebellion, and life at The New York Times.
Alvin Bragg has finally moved to stop prosecuting Tracy McCarter for murder.
Property owners in Kingston, New York, argue the city is vastly underestimating its vacancy rate in order to justify ruinous rent cuts.
Plus: ACLU in court over law criminalizing school behavior, Twitter losing heavy users, and more...
Is a federal takeover of the troubled jail pending?
Plus: Virginia lawmaker wants to criminalize parents who don't affirm child's gender identity, inflation is up 8.2 percent over the past 12 months, and more...
The decision is a warning to states that impose vague permit standards or sweeping bans on guns in "sensitive locations."
Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.
Plus: The editors engage in a full-throated denunciation of the CIA in response to a listener question.
A new report from The Community Housing Improvement Program argues that allowable rent hikes in rent-stabilized buildings cover less than half the increase in operating costs.
The Big Apple's building regulations are almost impossible to navigate, and officials like it that way.
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Alvin Bragg campaigned on Tracy McCarter’s innocence. Once in office, that was apparently less politically expedient.
Approximately 36 blocks around Times Square will now be deemed a "gun-free zone." What purpose is served by this?
Several dozen NYC residents want to repeal the regulations allowing outdoor dining in the city.
Michael Picard's free speech rights were violated when he was booked for telling passersby to "Google Jury Nullification."
The CDC and FDA, when confronted with scarce vaccine supply, refuse to learn from their COVID-19 mistakes.
The mayor promised to reopen city playgrounds, but more of them are currently closed than before he took office.
The initial decision to pursue prosecution runs contrary to the campaign promises of Alvin Bragg, who claims to understand that, so often, the process is the punishment.
Alvin Bragg campaigned on "ending mass incarceration." But that promise apparently does not apply to Jose Alba.
The case of Jose Alba reminds us that progressive prosecutors don't always apply their principles when they're inconvenient.
A recent college grad from the Midwest landed in the Bronx and was confused by bodega culture. This led to a social media mob, a digging up of old videos, and a firing.
Just a week ago, New York City convinced a federal judge not to seize control of the jail.
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