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Community board application season has just begun. Here’s how to join
Applications to serve on community boards in 2025 have started to reopen. Community boards play an important role in our neighborhoods. They work with elected officials and city agencies to ensure the community’s needs are incorporated into decisions, including everything from public transit to housing development. To qualify for a board, you must live or…
Rikers Island judge says message received
Late last month, Federal District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain found New York City and the Department of Correction in contempt of court on 18 counts in Nunez v. Department of Correction, the now almost fourteen-year-old civil lawsuit seeking redress for dangerous conditions at the Rikers Island complex. This is not her first finding of…
Casino plan divides Queens—again
Epicenter is part of a cohort of publishers sharing tools and practices around generative artificial intelligence, supported through a grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. The summary below was generated using GovWire, which monitors public meetings and leverages AI to generate transcripts, articles, podcasts and other content. We checked quotes against the transcript and…
Trump’s top leadership takes shape
When Trump won eight years ago, no one really expected it to happen– including himself. He was a total political outsider who had a few months to try to cobble together a disorganized government, and he didn’t have nearly enough loyalists or MAGA die-hards on hand to populate a cabinet and a whole upper echelon…
Beneath the Prop 1 win, misinformation
The Sunday before Election Day, a rally in Jackson Heights combining calls for public safety and opposition to the legalization of sex work revealed a crowd with a laundry list of concerns. Over 100 neighbors, politicians, and clergy shouted in Spanish: “Roosevelt has been lost to drugs!” “[The media] are sellouts!” “Out with corruption!” They…
Our first post-truth election
By this point, you know the news. Donald Trump has conclusively won the 2024 election and a second term to the United States presidency. He will take office early next year with a Republican Senate, likely cement a Supreme Court hard-right supermajority for a generation, and start steering the vast ship of the federal bureaucracy…
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