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I began my morning, as I do many mornings, by masochistically searching different apartment listing sites for one-bedrooms and studios I could fantasize about renting –well, to the extent that one can fantasize about something so fundamentally inhumane as giving a landlord money just to have somewhere to live.
There was a gorgeous pre-war apartment in the New York neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, with rich mahogany moldings that took up an entire floor of a brownstone; a corner spot in Williamsburg with windows on two sides of the living room. Too bad everything I found cost upwards of $2,000, a monthly rent that I, a single freelance writer with no partner to speak of much less split rent with, simply cannot afford.
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Remember last month, when state lawmakers
voted to strip a scandal-scarred Gov. Andrew Cuomo of his emergency powers, or at least said they did? You could be forgiven for forgetting, given the stream of pronouncements that have continued from the governor’s office ever since, governing everything from closing time at gyms and casinos to restaurant capacity to attendance at sporting events.
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Another Monday, another weekend of bad news for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The latest: New York’s vaccine czar, Larry Schwartz, has been
With recent talk of the threats and vindictive behavior that have emanated from Cuomo’s office for years, it wasn’t lost on these county executives that Cuomo s all-purpose right-hand man pleading the governor’s political case was the same guy who controls their supply of the life-saving coronavirus vaccine. One county executive filed notice of an impending ethics complaint with the state attorney general’s office, according to
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The Assembly is making the first move in the impeachment process of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a dramatic statement delivered on almost the
precise anniversary of the last time scandal forced a New York governor out of office.
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