Long lines wrapped Madison Square Garden, the Barclays Center and other poll sites as many cast their ballots in the Trump-Biden race Saturday amid a pandemic.
“NYC Votes” written in chalk on sidewalk outside the voting site located at Madison Square Garden during early voting for the U.S. Presidential elections. – NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 24, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Rachel Holliday Smith, Christine Chung, Gabriel Sandoval and Peter Senzamici, THE CITY Hours before early voting started in New York on […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex, AOC (D-NY) giving an impromptu interview on the street near the Capitol. – Washington, DC – January 10, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Justine Coleman, MSN “I don’t want us to start counting our chickens before they hatch,” she said. “I think we need to focus on winning the White House period,” citing that the […]
Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with leaders at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago to discuss strategies for community organization, April 24, 2017. (Shutterstock) By Dean Obeidallah, MSN There are just so many reasons why millions want to defeat Donald Trump this election. And now former […]
Photo: Mr Biden with Shekar Narasimhan, who says he supports the Democratic candidate in the upcoming election By Vineet Khare, BBC News It was 14 December, 2012, when news broke of a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Indian-American investment banker Shekar Narasimhan recalls that he was at the White House for […]
The four companies known as Big Tech — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — now have more than 22,000 employees in the city, with thousands added just this year.
By Matthew Haag, NY Times Facebook has just leased enough new office space in Manhattan to nearly triple its current local workforce, including at one of the city’s most iconic buildings, the 107-year-old former main post office complex near Pennsylvania Station. Apple, which set up its first office in New York a decade ago, is […]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Georgia, Atlanta USA March 6, 2020. (Shutterstock) By AOL Months of mixed messages, political pressure and public gaffes about COVID-19 have caused morale at the Centers for Disease Control to turn “toxic,” say four current and two former CDC staffers, with one saying the election could be a “tipping point” for a mass […]
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY Thousands more young children living in public housing were potentially exposed to lead poisoning than originally thought, officials revealed Thursday. The city’s public housing authority has determined that the number of apartments believed contaminated with lead paint that house children under age 6 is triple the number it previously […]
About Early Voting What is early voting? Early voting happens 9 days in a row before the election and allows you to vote in-person on weekdays, weekends and evenings. Need a ride to your poll-site? Get $5 off your taxi ride when voting early, October 24 through November 1, with Curb. Use promo code “Vote Early.” Find […]
Both landlord and tenant advocates say the solution is a tenant bailout in the form of a rental assistance voucher program.
Landlord Surya Hariprasad sits outside her Bronx building, Oct. 15, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY Surya Davie Hariprasad scrounged to pay the mortgage of her Bronx home after she, her daughter and their only tenant upstairs were stricken with coronavirus in March. For two months, nobody in their two-family house could work […]
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley opens the inaugural Pivot Event by urging the people of the Caribbean to harness their cultural confidence and creative imagination to allow the region to secure its place as a world leader in technology and innovation.
