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The head of New York City’s buildings department wants to grant inspectors the power to make arrests and even carry guns following complaints from agency staffers who say they’ve been attacked on the job, according to an email obtained by Gothamist. Department of Buildings Commissioner James Oddo is pushing for state legislation that would allow…

Michelle Obama, Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, Tracee Ellis Ross, Salma Hayek and Oprah Winfrey are among the celebrities who’ve talked openly about menopause in recent years and have shed light on a topic long considered taboo. Even New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined the conversation last January, when he said that if men experienced…

Coming up on today’s show: Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent for Axios, host of the Slate Money Podcast and author of The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal (‎Harper Business, 2023), talks about both Reddit and Truth Social going public and what that means for their investors and users. David…

David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, talks about the deal taking shape on housing in the state budget; whether “squatters” are a real and growing issue and a state Court of Appeals decision that might upend NYC’s property tax system. Read the full article here

The city correction officers union said a takeover of New York City jails by a federal appointee would worsen conditions at the facilities, according to court papers filed this week. The Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association is opposing efforts by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams and public defenders from the…

Loading… In the follow-up to their award-winning documentary “Boys State,” directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss have decided to cover the sister American Legion program, Girls State. McBaine and Moss embedded among teenage girls in Missouri who attended a one-week Girls State camp, where they are tasked with building a government from the ground up.…

Former New York Gov. David Paterson, the state’s first Black governor, endorsed Westchester County Executive George Latimer on Wednesday in his primary challenge against Rep. Jamaal Bowman, one of the state’s most competitive races this year. Paterson announced his endorsement in a community room in Co-op City, a sprawling residential complex in the Bronx portion…

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber emerges from one of the new elevators. MTA photo by Marc Hermann WILLIAMSBURG — The installation of six elevators at the Metropolitan Avenue subway station on the G line and the Lorimer Street station on the L line — which are linked together via a free transfer — is…