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The hotel site still boasts a Japanese restaurant and bar in its lobby and “Art Nouveau styled hotel rooms” with “sophisticated furniture, plush beds with down comforters and deluxe linens, flat-screen televisions with cable and C.O. Bigelow toiletries.” But recent visits to the Square Hotel found a much different scene. A National Guard soldier is …
by Ed Driscoll HOW IT STARTED: AG Healey Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to Remove Federal Funding From Sanctuary Cities. Attorney General Maura Healey today issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that it will strip federal funding provided to so-called “Sanctuary Cities” in Massachusetts and across the country. “Strong, independently-governed communities …
A group of “disorderly” migrants hurled objects at passersby in Manhattan before beating up two men who tried to intervene — pushing one of them through a glass door of an apartment building entrance on Sunday morning, according to police and witnesses. The violence began just before 9:45 a.m. in Harlem, when cops received word …