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The Council speaker, Julie Menin, has requested that officials from Anthropic and OpenAI attend the Oct. 5 hearing, as the city contemplates efforts to regulate the industry.
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Con Edison shut off power to more than 7,700 households in July. The utility was owed an average of $2,327 on overdue accounts.
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“Know Your Rights” is the latest publication from the public schools’ educational comics program Civics for All.
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For dozens of editors and reporters, the anniversary of the first issue of The Times in 1851 has been a moment to look back.
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The Arverne Cinema, in the Rockaways, has offered viewers a drive-in feel where the city meets the sea. It wasn’t meant to last.
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Their demands came soon after the New York City school system banned A.I. for most students and limited screen time.
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The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.
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The plan, Vision Zero Reimagined, is a set of goals that includes speed-capping devices in some cars and reduced speed limits near hundreds more schools.
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A revival of the endlessly popular musical will open in the fall of 2027.
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A new group organized by business executives agrees with the mayor about expanding child care access. They may not agree on how to fund it.
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Alex Bores, who lost a congressional primary contest that revolved around A.I. regulation, is trying to position himself at the center of the conversation for the next presidential election.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a recent Tony nominee for “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” returns to the director’s chair for this season’s revival of “Seven Guitars.”
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A state board authorized phasing out the tests, long viewed as a rite of passage for high school seniors, as a diploma requirement. What replaces them is an open question.
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City transportation officials have deployed a high-pressure water truck to blast away old street markings and make way for new bus lanes and safety improvements.
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The settlement resolves a 2019 lawsuit that argued that a city program intended to seize buildings from negligent landlords had stripped homeowners of their equity without proper compensation.
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Silenced ahead of the World Cup, an emergency notification system for private and parochial schools will launch Tuesday as part of Notify NYC.
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Christopher Gallant, who is running against Representative Nick LaLota on Long Island, acknowledged that the photos that surfaced in media reports on Monday were legitimate.
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Harrowing social media videos showed runners navigating chest-high waters after a drenching rainstorm on Sunday.
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