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1 week ago | 
thecity.nyc | Samantha Maldonado |Rachel Kahn
It’s the dog days of summer, and your apartment is boiling – again. What’s a tenant to do when the thermometer climbs? Unlike in the winter, New York City landlords have no legal obligation to control the temperature in your space when it’s hot out. Though that could change. In the fall, the City Council debated a bill that would, if passed, mandate landlords to provide air conditioning to their tenants — establishing a “cooling season” in the summer parallel to “heat season” in the winter.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Rachel Kahn |Fisayo Okare |Faye Qiu |Yoav Gonen
Late last Friday, outside St. Jerome Church in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn, dozens of Haitian immigrants, elected officials, and allies gathered to show solidarity for the tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants in New York and across the United States who are at risk of losing their Temporary Protected Status.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Rachel Kahn |Fisayo Okare |Rong Xiaoqing |Ralph Joseph
While serving as the Chief of Hate Crimes unit in the Manhattan DA’s office, Hannah Yu was given a hate crime case in which the victim was struck with an object. The perpetrator had shouted, “Go back to your country!” Soon after, her office received another case. Someone approached a complete stranger and said: “You don’t belong here. You should get deported.”After more cases like these were reported in 2024, Yu recognized a growing trend.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | April Xiaoyi Xu |Rong Xiaoqing |Fisayo Okare |Rachel Kahn
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
thecity.nyc | Rachel Kahn |Rachel Holliday Smith
Since President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice made the highly unusual move to drop Mayor Eric Adams’ federal corruption charges, calls for Adams’ resignation are mounting. For months, Adams has adamantly denied that he will ever step down, including in the days after the DOJ’s edict. But the decision isn’t completely up to him. The governor or a special city committee could remove him.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
thecity.nyc | Rachel Kahn |Rachel Holliday Smith
While Mayor Eric Adams may escape prosecution on federal corruption charges amid a shocking turn by the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, the move has thrown fuel on the political fire around him. An avalanche of criticism followed the highly unusual move by the DOJ, including the resignation of six prosecutors in protest and a flood of calls for Adams to resign from local elected officials.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
thecity.nyc | Katie Honan |Rachel Kahn
The calls for Mayor Eric Adams to step down or be removed from office grew this week as the Justice Department works to drop his criminal case on public corruption charges — and multiple federal prosecutors resigned in protest of what they said was a politically-motivated decision. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has the power to remove him under the state constitution, offered her strongest rebuke of Adams to date in an interview on MSNBC.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thecity.nyc | Rachel Kahn
What do you get the avenue that has everything for its birthday? Sidewalks already crowded for the holiday season spilled out onto the street on Fifth Avenue between 48th and 55th as part of a celebration to commemorate its 200th anniversary. The event, similar to Open Streets celebrations in the past few years, featured performances, food trucks, brand installations, and even a signature piney scent piped out from decor that dotted the sidewalks.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thecity.nyc | Rachel Kahn
On Election Night, Chelsea Williams-Diggs went to bed around 10 p.m. Even though it was too early to know the results of the presidential election, a race “critical” to her had already been called: Florida’s Amendment 4. “That’s what I was mostly biting my nails on,” she said.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan |Rachel Holliday Smith |Rachel Kahn
Throughout the election, Donald Trump promised to enact an unprecedented campaign of mass deportations, saying he wants to remove “as many as 20 million” people from the United States during his second administration. A trio of early personnel choices — Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff for policy, South Dakota Gov.
