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  This article originally appeared in The City. By Gwynne Hogan NEW YORK - Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters overtook Trump Tower Thursday morning, staging a sit-in in the central atrium for over an hour in a a colorful and chaotic scene in the iconic location where Donald Trump famously descended a golden elevator to announce he was running for pr, esident in 2015. With Trump now beginning his second term, the group there under the banner of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace moved into the space to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of detained Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil by federal auth orities for his role in campus protests dedicated to the same cause. Patrons and workers looked on in confusion as waves of people entered the lobby at around 11:40 a.m. unfurling banners and sitting down in the subterranean cafeteria area,...

  It's a high-stakes meeting for the mayor that comes just after Trump’s Justice Department instructed prosecutors to drop their criminal case against him.  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Gwynne Hogan NEW YORK - Thomas D. Homan, who President Donald Trump has placed in charge of his deportation efforts, is set to meet with Mayor Eric Adams Thursday — three days after the Department of Justice requested federal prosecutors drop corruption charges against the mayor citing a need for his assistance on immigration enforcement. Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term, has said he hopes to “reach an agreement where his officers will help my officers remove these public safety threats.”   “[Adams] is all in on arresting public safety threats [who] are here illegally and helping me find these missing children. So, I will meet with him Thursda...