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Morning Headlines: Monthly Evictions Are on the Rise, Health Department Down One Third Cooling Towers Inspectors in the Last Three Years, The Group "Muslims ...


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A WNYC analysis of city data finds marshals are evicting tenants at a rate of 1500 apartments a month, that is the highest eviction rate since 2018. Another WNYC analysis found that seven of the ten buildings at the center of the Legionnaires' disease outbreak, some of which are run directly by the city, had no inspections over the past year. Finally, Muslims on Long Island which owns an existing mosque in Bethpage, sued under federal religious discrimination law, after the town blocked its plan to tear down two structures and build a larger mosque on the site. As a result of a settlement of a long-running land use and religious discrimination case, the town will fund nearly 4 million dollars towards the build.

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