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Around 11 p.m. one night in January, a Long Island couple was driving back to their home in Hicksville when Nassau County police pulled t...


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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has been in talks with Governor Kathy Hochul’s office about trimming the costs of three expensive programs as part of a potential deal to send more state aid to the city, according to several people familiar with the ongoing negotiations.

The discussions have focused on the housing voucher program ...


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A lawyer who has repeatedly caused clients to lose cases by missing court appearances and failing to file paperwork on time also leads the committee that oversees the practice of New York law — but his boss isn’t concerned.

On Wednesday, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins defended Senator Luis Sepúlveda, who also works as a private ...


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One of the world’s largest private equity firms has bought up hundreds of apartment buildings across Brooklyn and Queens in the last few years, part of a trend that state leaders have sought to curb. As the firm, the Carlyle Group, gears up for a new buying spree, it will be fueled in part by a notable investor: the state’s own pension fund.

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