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We need working docks on Brooklyn’s waterfront


The 122-acre Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) is one of the city’s last remaining maritime industrial sites on the waterfront. It’s also the last place that should be rezoned for market-rate housing.…

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Why Is There Always a Line? And Why Is It at My Front Door? – The New York Times



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Yeshivas must keep teaching standards


As New York’s budget negotiations drag on, a dangerous backroom effort is underway. Being targeted are New York’s “substantial equivalency” regulations — rules that ensure private schools, includin…

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Trump’s plan to isolate China


Analysts expect mixed results from the White House’s multilateral push to force Beijing to the negotiating table.

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Physicians Board’s ‘Monopoly’ at America’s Military Hospitals Is Depriving Servicemembers of Care, Rival Group Alleges


The nation’s largest certifying board has cornered the market on hiring at Defense Department hospitals, preventing access for thousands of specialists to…

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Supreme Court To Hear Case of Texas Woman Who Alleges Mail Carrier Refused Delivery Due to Her Race


A Dallas-area landlord claims that a local mail carrier did not like the idea of a black woman collecting rent from white tenants.

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Today in History: April 22, the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889


The Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims to nearly 1.9 million acres of land that was formerly part of Indian Territory.

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New York is Uncle Sam’s piggy bank: Tom DiNapoli shows the state/federal balance of payments


Thank you to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for publishing an analysis of the balance of payments between the 50 states and the federal government. This is his ninth annual review, continuing a tra…

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Tesla Earnings Call Will Shed New Light on Automaker’s Troubles Since Musk Joined the MAGA Movement


In an unusual move, Tesla says Tuesday’s first-quarter earnings call will include a ‘live company update’ and is expected to be attended by Musk himself.