New York Focus
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Prisoners seeking help from the AG's office have little chance of review. Here's one applicant's story.
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View as a gridNew York's AG Wanted to Review Innocence Claims. Politics Got in the...
New York Focus
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The attorney general's conviction review bureau has investigated just a handful of innocence claims of the hundreds it's received since 2012.
Another Alamo Drafthouse Theater in NYC Is Unionizing in Barbenheimer's Wake - Hell Gate
Hell Gate
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"This summer, especially with Barbenheimer, things were just so unbearably horrible, like, abnormal. And everything corporate was doing was making it so much worse," said one union organizer at the Lower Manhattan Alamo Drafthouse.
Citing Mold and Short Staffing, Alamo Cinema Workers Push to Unionize
Hyperallergic
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"They insist on cutting every corner," said Bridge Squitire, a server and trainer at the theater who helped organize the union drive.
NYC trading card communities keep tradition alive in changing industry
WINS-AM (New York, NY)
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Collectible trading card games (TCGs) are bigger than ever, but players are becoming increasingly alienated from the communities that once served as the driving force behind the games, as online shopping and the pandemic have battered the businesses that house local scenes.
Property destroyed, people separated from services, no reduction in street homelessness: Adams' s...
WINS-AM (New York, NY)
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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) - "They left a note, and said they were going to do a sweep. But unfortunately I had run to the bathroom, and when I came back everything was gone, including all my clothes, all my property. All my stuff was gone."
Banks refuse work with NY cannabis companies, threatening state's equity goals
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MILTON, N.Y. (1010 WINS) - As the first New York cannabis businesses work toward the start of sales at the end of the year, some are having trouble getting loans and banking due to the federal prohibition.