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Elizabeth Shwe

Articles by Elizabeth Shwe


The city's chief equity officer discusses the sweeping new roadmap for tackling racial inequality across the five boroughs.


For the week's Looped In newsletter, we talked to New Yorkers and the sanitation department to see how things were going with the new "badge of shame" parking stickers.


'The dancing, the food, the patties, the coco bread, the chicken, the rice, the juices. It's all going to be there.'


We went to Penn Station to ask which direction offers the better beach.


Searching for the ever-elusive cheap rent in NYC? Want to know if you’re already in a rent-stabilized apartment and just don’t know it? Here’s our how-to.


Police say the rider lost control and struck 12 pedestrians inside a Fort Greene park.


Police say the suspect fled in a gray or silver Honda Odyssey and remains at large.


We brought in a water sommelier (yes, they exist) to test NYC’s water against tap water from Baltimore, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C. and Jersey City.


A new study shows counts about 500 heat-related deaths each year in the city.


“Every New Yorker has that ‘what’s a nutcracker’ moment. Once you try it, you’re like, I got hammered for like ten bucks or five bucks and it wasn't completely yucky.”


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