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U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez is not going to search reelection in 2026, bringing an finish to a 33-year profession in Congress. U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, who represents elements of Queens and Brooklyn in Congress, introduced that she is not going to search reelection subsequent yr on the finish of her sixteenth time period in workplace. Velázquez 72, turned the primary Puerto Rican ever elected to Congress in 1992 however introduced Thursday evening that she wouldn’t be in search of a seventeenth time period in workplace. In a Nov. 20 assertion saying the transfer, Velázquez mentioned she had “poured her heart”…

Each month, the identical scene performs out at kitchen tables throughout New York. A household opens the gasoline and electrical invoice, sees the quantity soar once more, and begins doing the mathematics: What can we reduce this month? They’d no say in that invoice, however they’re those scrambling to pay it. And much too many can’t. As of this 12 months, greater than 1.2 to 1.3 million New Yorkers are behind on their utility payments — owing between $1.8 and $2.3 billion. In New York Metropolis and Westchester alone, practically 16% of Con Edison clients ended 2024 in arrears, with nearly $950 million owed. That isn’t a…