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In a show of force aimed at lower Manhattan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Tuesday swarmed a stretch of Canal Street synonymous with street vendors — a public arrest sweep of a kind that had yet to hit New York City in the Trump administration’s escalating national crackdown.
New Yorkers thronged and jeered at the federal agents, who took those they arrested in a procession down Lafayette Street to the federal building nearby.
The raid on Canal Street Tuesday took place two days after right-wing influencer Savanah Hernandez had posted a video of herself on Canal Street saying, “20-30 illegals in the area conducting business” and tagging ICE to “go check this corner out.”
“The amount of weapons that they had on the street pointed at bystanders, something I’ve never seen in my life,” said local City Council member Christopher Marte, who responded to the scene on Canal Street and followed the agents with protesters to 26 Federal Plaza. “I haven’t seen this much military action in lower Manhattan since the days after 9/11.”
The NYPD had been stepping up enforcement against immigrant vendors in the area for months, in an area known by tourists the world over as the place to buy knockoffs of designer handbags.
Read more about New Yorkers’ intensifying confrontations with federal immigration enforcers.
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Slight chance of showers with a high near 59.
MTA 🚇
There will be no overnight R trains between Whitehall St-South Ferry and 59 St, Brooklyn. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Tonight is the second and final general election debate for mayor, down to three contenders: Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, and Andrew Cuomo, running an independent bid after losing the primary. THE CITY’s Katie Honan will be co-moderating along with NY1’s Errol Louis and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. Watch live here starting at 7 p.m.
Cuomo and his supporters are hellbent on making it a two-way race, urging Sliwa to drop out in hopes of denying victory to Mamdani. Saying he would rather impale himself, Sliwa stood firm and said, alluding to the $32 million spending effort to get Cuomo elected: “Fourteen days left, the billionaires are not picking the mayor.”
As a parting gift to long-suffering residents on a stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens border known as The Hole, Mayor Eric Adams announced a redevelopment plan that will replace septic tanks with the area’s first sewer lines and bring new housing to the area.
Our partners at Healthbeat look at the public health challenges New York City’s next mayor will have to navigate, including sharp federal spending cuts that threaten the city’s hospital system.
More than half of affordable housing developments in New York financed by two key nonprofits don’t generate enough income to cover their costs, according to a new report by the groups, Enterprise and the National Equity Fund.
The 40,000 units covered by the report have seen their operating expenses soar 40% since 2017, led by a 110% hike in insurance. Rent collections since 2020 have declined from 95% of the maximum potential to 90%, costing the average building about $75,000 in income.
As a result, 57% of the projects are not covering their expenses, the report notes, which leads to deferred maintenance, depletion of reserves and reduced tenant services.
The report comes as Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani promises a four-year rent freeze for regulated apartments.Three-quarters of the projects covered by the report are in the city and many would be affected by a rent freeze.
— Greg David
Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
Thursday, Oct. 23:The Harlem Chamber Players will host a concert celebrating the 400th anniversary of New York City, featuring five local composers. Free, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
THE KICKER: The state has repealed a decades-old law, thereby allowing some 8,000 New Yorkers seeking organ transplants to put their names on multiple waiting lists.
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