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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."
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As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.

Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

Thank you, Mayor Mamdani!

Doesn't Chicago do this, too?

Nurses Scramble to Make Ends Meet as Strike Drags On As striking nurses miss their first paychecks, some are turning to GoFundMe campaigns or seeking out moonlighting gigs to pay their bills.

As striking nurses miss their first paychecks, some are turning to GoFundMe campaigns or seeking out moonlighting gigs to pay their bills.

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Judge orders state commission to redraw Staten Island and Brooklyn congressional district https://gothamist.com/news/judge-orders-state-commission-to-redraw-staten-island-and-brooklyn-congressional-district

Is there systemwide failure happening? This seems odd.

Why?

I can't wait to see the interior decorating of the First Lady!

Good pressers!

It's comfort food in these times!

She's quite good!

From Covid Patient to Hospital CEO: Meet NYC's New Deputy Mayor for Health Helen Arteaga Landaverde rose to CEO of Elmhurst Hospital after founding a family health center.

The new deputy mayor overseeing the NYC health department and related agencies is a veteran health professional and hospital executive with strong community ties and very much a product of Queens.

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Most certainly did!

It's a new day!

Opulent

I loved everything about the inauguration.These kids singing with Mandy was too stinking cute!
Kudos to the inauguration team!

Homes worth millions of dollars are bought and sold each week at foreclosure auctions across the five boroughs — typically for a fraction of their true values: gothamist.visitlink.me/wUa3vW

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Shaw-nae personifies Black Excellence. Listening to her recount the history of the African American experience in Staten Island is perfect for any moment, and especially now as we celebrate Kwanzaa! 👊🏾

Brooklyn Residents' Homes Returned After Disbarred Attorney Sentenced for Deed Theft Scheme - NewsBreak Sanford Solny, a 68-year-old disbarred attorney from Brooklyn, was sentenced to an indeterminate term of two and a half to seven years in prison. The sente

Brooklyn Residents' Homes Returned After Disbarred Attorney Sentenced for Deed Theft Scheme
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Walking into Wednesday with even more respect and appreciation for the right to vote!!

Loving it!

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CBS News staffers lose jobs in ‘bloodbath’ as part of sweeping cuts from Paramount Paramount laying off about 1,000 staffers, including some in news, on Wednesday amid longer-term cost-cutting plan

The mass firing of journalists and in areas of vital coverage like Africa has begun under Bari Weiss at CBS News.

The moves kill the spirit of Walter Cronkite, investigative journalism & diminishes swaths of people & topics. Sweeping layoffs were announced, entire depts axed, global bureaus closed

In Coney Island!!!

I was trying to be a spectator!! It's home and our field is the bomb.

I tried to register last night and it said 'sold out'. Thanks for coming to Coney Island!