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This week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan to combat antisemitism in New York City. It focuses mostly on providing funding for security measures and hate prevention, including $6.4 million in grants to partner organizations and $1 million to provide additional physical security to synagogues and other Jewish places of worship. The announcement detailed these…
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A Black burial ground became a tow yard. Leaders want Mamdani to buy it.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, local historians and faith leaders are pressing the Mamdani administration to buy an Elmhurst lot where roughly 300 free Black New Yorkers and formerly enslaved people are believed to be buried. The lot, located at 47-11 90th St., is in foreclosure proceedings and is being used by an NYPD vendor…
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Trump and Mamdani met. No word on the new green card rule.
Mayor Mamdani hosted President Trump on Sept. 21 during UN General Assembly week. The two shared that the long-anticipated Sunnyside Yard housing development project is advancing to “technical conversations.” But the new immigration rule, which could cause nearly one million immigrants nationwide to drop their public benefits, never came up at the press conference.
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