Two and a half years after it was announced that New York City would spend $157 million to build municipal broadband infrastructure in poor neighborhoods, city officials have quietly canceled the plan, Gothamist has learned. The now-nixed broadband expansion was the second phase of the 2020 Internet Master Plan, a massive endeavor launched during the …
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Bilingual teachers brought in from the Dominican Republic to work in New York schools found service on their cellphones abruptly cut off last week – adding to the anxiety they face amid an investigation on the Ministry of Education employees who recruited them. The disruption came without warning or explanation as city and federal agencies …
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A Brooklyn straphanger who suffered every runner’s worst nightmare on Friday when a deranged woman randomly threw suspected acid in his face told the Post that she worked with the mentally ill — and something had to hopelessly be done. The 21-year-old Kings County hospital worker, who asked not to be named, said she felt …
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