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The utility also agreed to pay $36 million in penalties, with $7 million meant to directly compensate people who were affected by the moratorium. This agreement is a victory for customers, Mr. Cuomo said in a statement. National Grid will pay a significant p…

NEW YORK — Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the world’s richest men, has formally launched a Democratic bid for president. Ending weeks of speculation, the 77-year-old former Republican announced his candidacy Sunday in a …

Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg officially entered the 2020 presidential race on Sunday, joining the large cohort of Democrats already competing to be the partys nominee in next years election. We cannot afford four more years of President Trumps r…

It was gray out as I walked down Third Avenue toward the place where we had chosen to meet. As I continued on, a thin rain splashed down and gusts snapped at my jacket. I was dodging pieces of paper and other flying material whipped up by the wind. I…

By 2010, Mr. Hossein said, he had no rental income. He had also been forced to close his small convenience store after losing his lease. I couldnt afford the mortgage, he said, adding that he later lost the home in foreclosure. After 2010, I would never go o…

Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, campaigning in New Hampshire, joked that she would also be announcing a multimillion ad buy. No, Im not, she said, with a laugh. We are running this in a grass-roots fashion. Im not going to be able to compete with the mon…

Manny Jacinto, a star of the metaphysical sitcom The Good Place, would like to be the kind of actor who does his own stunts. He isnt. After you get hit four or five times, you say, No, O.K., lets get the stunt double, he said. But on a bleak Sunday…

The new legislation, which is expected to be passed by the City Council on Tuesday, includes menthol-flavored products; the only vaping liquid that would be allowed for sale are tobacco-flavored products. The bill would then go to Mayor Bill de Blasio to sign…

Courtesy of Kaye Blegvad A flooded subway entrance stopped Brooklyn commuters in their tracks yesterday. For four hours on Wednesday, the staircase leading down to Broadway Station in Williamsburg was blocked off and completely submerged. The sight was even s…

Because by May of 2020, they must submit their latest annual energy-use data, which comes from the utility companies that service them, to an online tool created by the Environmental Protection Agency. The tool will calculate greenhouse emissions and take int…