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Flushing is getting a facelift. Some worry the project will fuel more displacement. (opens the original)
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Downtown Flushing in Queens is one step closer to receiving a 1.3-acre “town square,” as local Community Board Chair Chuck Apelian puts it. The development he heralds is a public plaza of a decades-in-the-making tower complex known as Flushing Commons. The project’s developer, F&T Group, a major force reshaping the Flushing skyline, has started construction on the plaza and the second of three mixed-use towers. The buildings will house a new YMCA, several hundred condo units, and hundreds of tho
New ingredient mandated for Latin American kitchen, restaurant plates in NJ (opens the original)
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Change is coming to New Jersey’s corn masa dough and flour – the ingredients for freshly pressed corn tortillas, tamales, and pupusas prepared in many Latin American kitchens. Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation on Monday requiring corn masa dough and flour made and sold in the Garden State to be fortified with folic acid, a form of vitamin B9, which has been shown in scientific studies to prevent certain serious birth defects more prevalent in Hispanic and Latino families. “Corn masa product
Judge rules ICE sought to 'inflict punishment' on immigrants held in NY (opens the original)
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In a scathing ruling, a federal judge has ordered that safeguards against what he called "inhumane and unconstitutional” conditions at federal immigration holding cells in Lower Manhattan be made permanent — including limiting the number of detainees that can be held at the site. The ruling by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan extends rules he first put in place in summer 2025, when the lawsuit regarding conditions at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building at 26 Federal
Nepali, Tibetan New Yorkers grieve the missing and dead in epic flooding (opens the original)
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Many Nepali and Tibetan New Yorkers are grieving, seeking information and awaiting word on missing loved ones following the epic flash floods that ravaged the Nepal-Tibet border. “ There's been a numbness,” said Mamta Gurung Nyangmi, interim executive director of Adhikaar, a Queens-based advocacy group for Nepali-speaking immigrants. “People are still processing, and at the moment it's more about just speaking to each other, trying to understand what's going on, just trying to get information.”
A summer surge in ICE arrests in NYC and NJ, mostly of people with no criminal history (opens the original)
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Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the New York City area and New Jersey have surged this summer, driven largely by an increase in the number of people arrested without criminal records, according to newly published data. ICE agents in New Jersey arrested 2,080 people in July, the highest total in at least four years, according to a Gothamist analysis of agency data obtained via records requests by the Deportation Data Project, an academic group. The vast majority — 72% — had
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