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Adams Administration Backpedals on Huge Cuts to Pre-K and 3-K Programs

"We're gonna resolve that issue," Schools Chancellor David Banks told the City Council.

The Department of Education, Formerly the Board of Education, Is Actually ‘NYC Public Schools’—For Now

The DOE's "brand refresh" comes as the Adams administration fights to maintain mayoral control over the system that serves approximately one million students.

NYC Policing by the Numbers: Yep, Still Racist

In the era of Eric Adams, police stops and low-level arrests are ticking up again, the stark racial disparities remain, and in some cases are getting worse.

My Neighbor, Virginia

When Vincenza Ann "Virginia" Filingeri Checkle died, 20th-century Brooklyn died with her.

I Survived (and Thrived) Watching Half of the Seven Hour Hitler Movie

Scenes from a rare screening of the first half of the seven-hour experimental 1977 film, "Hitler, a Film from Germany."

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