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Through Freedom of Information Law requests, City Limits obtained data from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for weekly COVID-19 deaths from March 2020 to the end of July of 2022, offering a breakdown of fatalities by race/ethnicity for each week of the early crisis.
Faulting Mayor de Blasio’s expansion of the city payroll during his tenure, Andrew Yang says the city ought to spread the money coming from Washington out over several years. But should the city save for a rainy day when it’s pouring now?
Those running for mayor have exercised their civic duty to varying degrees over their time as New York City voters, a City Limits review of Board of Elections records indicates.
Demographic data released by the city on Sunday reinforced concerns that the vaccine rollout effort has not done enough to reach the city’s communities of color ― Black and Latino New Yorkers in particular.
Yes, Virginia, some New York City campaign spending did make it to North Dakota.
It’s less than two weeks from Election Day, and campaign 2017 is shaping up to be one of the cheapest in modern New York City history. But that doesn’t mean some individual donors have not been very generous.
All the races. All the questions. And where the citywide candidates stand on key issues.
Some Council districts have a much higher rate of voter enrollment than others.
How have patterns in low-level busts changed since Bill de Blasio became mayor?
It reached its high-water mark in 1994.
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