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Monitors overseeing failing NYC agencies racked up $111M tab

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The city has shelled out at least $111 million on monitors and special masters overseeing agencies ordered to fix high-stakes failures — from horrific living conditions in public housing and jails to alleged racist practices at the NYPD, FDNY and Department of Education. The Post examined 11 ongoing cases in which most of the pricey outside overseers have amassed fortunes after being appointed by judges and government entities to ensure city agencies correct years — and sometimes decades — of malfeasance. They include: $36.9 million lawyer that Mark S. Cohen…

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A New York City father clings to life after a New York City apartment fire that killed his son

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Angry residents of a Bronx housing project where a 6-year-old boy died in a fire said the garbage compactor where the fire started has been broken for at least two months. Firefighters found Aiden Hayward and his 32-year-old father unconscious in a 19th-floor driveway of 303 East 135th Street in the Mitchell Homes of New York City on Friday evening. Aiden was taken to Harlem Hospital, but was not saved. The boy, the second child to die in a fire in the five boroughs last week, died of smoke inhalation.…

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Schumer’s massive NYCHA allotment will do nothing for the population

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The Democrats’ multi-trillion dollar social infrastructure spending plan includes Shomark – a $40 billion appropriation that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for for the New York City Housing Authority. This manna from Washington is just the kind of half-baked borrowing and spending scheme that threatens Senator Joe Manchin with blowing up the bill. There is no doubt that America’s largest public housing system—with 178,000 apartments in 324 projects, representing 13 percent of all such units nationwide—needs to address the gamut of maintenance problems: leaky roofs, rampant mold, broken…

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Only 65 percent of NYCHA employees have been vaccinated as authorization begins

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Subscribe to our site Special Edition Newsletter For a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic. The beleaguered New York City housing authority vaccinated just 65 percent of its staff as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s tenure kicked off — and the leadership of the largest labor union got a microcosm of plans to hire nearly 300 aggregators, The Post has learned. Hizzoner’s mandate begins on the back of a backlog of maintenance work and predictions that temperatures are expected to dip into the 40s next week, which means NYCHA’s old and…

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