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1 month ago | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams
Credit: Thomas Habr on Unsplash Five years after the pandemic triggered an exodus from New York City, new census data shows the city’s population is growing again. According to census data released this week, the city’s population grew by 87,184 to 8.48 million people between July 2023 and July 2024, up from 8.39 million the previous year. All five boroughs gained residents, with Manhattan leading the way with a 1.7 percent increase in population. “The numbers do not lie.
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1 month ago | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1902). “New York slave market about 1730.” Via New York Public Library Digital Collections. The historical records of thousands of formerly enslaved New Yorkers will be more easily accessible to the public through a new city project.
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2 months ago | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams
Photo courtesy of Michael Appleton/ Mayoral Photography Office on FlickrNew York City sued the Trump administration last week over the $80 million in federal funding the White House took back without consent. The city’s Law Department said it was challenging the president’s decision to revoke Federal Emergency Management Agency funding approved to reimburse the city for migrant housing expenses.
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2 months ago | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams |Kathy Hochul
The Roosevelt Hotel shuttered during the pandemic and became a relief center for asylum seekers. Photo by Billy Hathorn via Wikimedia CommonsPresident Donald Trump took back $80 million in federal funding from New York City intended to cover some of the costs related to housing migrants.
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2 months ago | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams |Letitia James
Photo by Nout Gons on PexelsNew York officials are scrambling to respond to President Donald Trump’s federal funding freeze, a move that threatened essential services for millions of New Yorkers. The freeze, which was announced in a memo on Monday, would strip the city of billions in federal grants and loans, potentially putting funding for housing assistance, school lunch programs, and other vital resources at risk.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams
Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office on Flickr The City Council on Thursday voted 31-20 to approve Mayor Eric Adams’ landmark “City of Yes” housing proposal, marking a major step forward in addressing New York City’s critical housing shortage. The final version of the plan largely resembles the mayor’s original vision but includes amendments by the Council that lower the projected number of new homes from 109,000 to roughly 82,000 over the next 15 years.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
caribbeanlife.com | Eric Adams |Michael Williams
From day one, we have put New Yorkers first, working to make this city safer, more affordable, and more livable. Thanks to our strong fiscal management — including saving nearly $900 million in taxpayer dollars over just two fiscal years, last week, we were able to deliver the November 2024 Financial Plan Update that invests in public safety, the programs and benefits that New Yorkers rely on, and improves quality of life for our city’s 8.3 million residents.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
harlemcommunitynews.com | Eric Adams
Categories: Articles, Last week in New York City, a young girl died, and another was seriously injured while illegally riding on top of a moving subway train. As New Yorkers have seen in far too many headlines — this is not an isolated incident. The allure of social media fame has lured too many young people to the top of trains, and the consequences have been deadly. What is worse, the companies whose algorithms promote this deadly content haven’t done nearly enough to put an end to it.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams
NYC issues drought watch following second-longest dry spell on record Photo courtesy of Eden, Janine and Jim on Flickr New York City has issued a drought watch amid its second-longest dry spell on record. Mayor Eric Adams and the city’s Department of Environmental (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
6sqft.com | Aaron Ginsburg |Eric Adams
Credit: Nick Fewings on Unsplash A proposition to enshrine abortion rights in New York passed on Tuesday, according to election results published by the Associated Press. New Yorkers also voted to approve four of the five proposals that change the City Charter pushed for by Mayor Eric Adams, who called the polls an “overwhelming success” for his administration.
