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Sun Aug 20 2023

NYC wants to house migrants in jail shuttered after Epstein suicide

FILE - The Manhattan Correctional Center appears in this July 1, 2019 photo, in New York. New York Mayor Eric Adams' administration suggested in a letter, to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Aug. 9, 2023, that it wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NY has struggled to handle the estimated 100,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since last year.

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Tony Subraj of Zara Realty Holding Corp., center, with his sons, Ryan, 7, left, and Nikhil, 13, photographed on with the solar panels on his buildings roof in Queens on Thursday, August 10, 2023.

With farmland in jeopardy, why not more rooftop solar? Here's why

Some companies are finding the incentives to build rooftop solar in New York City are pretty attractive. Not so in upstate New York.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Anthony Chesley (37) breaks up a pass intended for New York Jets wide receiver Irvin Charles (19) in the second half. The Buccaneers defeat the Jets, 13-6, in a preseason NFL game at MetLife Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, in East Rutherford.

Jets host the Bucs in preseason game: photos

The NY Jets fall to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 13-6, in their first preseason game of the year at MetLife Stadium on Aug. 19, 2023, in East Rutherford.

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Florida health officials say Vibrio vulnificus bacteria found naturally in warm salty water, such as Indian River Lagoon on Florida's Atlantic coast, shown here, can be deadly.

Rare flesh-eating bacteria kills 8 in Florida, Connecticut and New York

A rare flesh-eating bacteria has killed at least five people in Florida this year, as well as three in Connecticut and New York.

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Families of asylum seekers are led into the Ramada hotel in Yonkers May 15, 2023. The families were being housed in New York City.

Health care costs for asylum seekers are rising in NY. Who will pay?

Despite mounting urgency, local officials lacked many details about how migrant health care costs will be funded as NYC pleads for federal help.

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