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Some asylum seekers slept on the street in front of the Watson Hotel in Midtown Sunday night rather than spend the night in the new relief center in Brooklyn.
Published Jan 30, 2023 at 1:38 p.m.
Modified Jan 30, 2023 at 2:29 p.m.
Neither rideshare representatives nor city sources could say who would pay tens of thousands of rideshare drivers to transition to electric vehicles.
Neither rideshare representatives nor city sources could say who would pay tens of thousands of rideshare drivers to transition to electric vehicles.
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