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Did New York’s landmark program to give eviction help to low-income people cause a dip in emergency room visits?

The city’s former parks commissioner had serious concerns about the proposed Metropolitan Park casino in Queens before it was approved by the state, noting the potential to increase flooding in the area and restrict parks access, documents shared with The…

Neighbors stunned by the closure of a local newspaper in The Bronx are rallying behind an effort to relaunch the community mainstay, with or without help from its former owner — the borough’s largest employer.

It was the beginning of her first year at Hostos Community College, and Shannon needed help.

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After a twelve-hour shift, most people would undergo a bleary-eyed commute home, enjoy whatever show they’re currently binging, and go to bed before doing it all over again the next day.

When the New York Knicks took home the NBA championship title for the first time in 53 years this summer, fans joked that a Knicks-inspired baby name trend may be nigh.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

New York City is poised to finally pass a carriage horse ban after more than a decade of talk about that — but it’s far from clear what will actually happens after that. https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?

A Brutalist-style city office building in Lower Manhattan is slated for a transformation — the likes of which New York City has never seen.

Back in the good old days of “honest graft,” William “Boss” Tweed didn’t mess around when it came to enriching himself at the expense of New York City taxpayers.

There are mountains of data available online about New York City public schools if you know where to look.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Liz Vladeck, the Department of Education’s top lawyer, to lead his Office of Labor Relations — a crucial role tasked with representing the city in collective bargaining with unions representing hundreds of thousands of teach…

A block-by-block tracking app formerly known as WalkNYC is now called Sidewalk, after the city alleged trademark infringement and demanded a name change.

In the 1800s, a journalist using the pen name Lisle Lester left her childhood home in Wisconsin and set off to create a life of adventure and travel typically unheard of for a woman at that time.

Last October, 10 days out from his historic victory in the 2025 mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani made his final pitch to members and delegates of the city’s largest municipal union.

A cop facing misconduct charges in the 2024 death of a Queens teenager experiencing a mental health crisis will dodge a disciplinary trial because the NYPD failed to notify the police oversight panel he had put in his papers to retire.

One person was receiving medical attention after he was shot by federal officers in The Bronx on Thursday, the New York Police Department said in a social media post.

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It’s become a ritual for many New York City teachers: Head to a 35,000-square-foot warehouse on Northern Boulevard in Queens, take the elevator to the third floor, grab a shopping cart and don’t leave until it’s filled to the brim with classroom supplies —

Martin Soto, the Peruvian immigrant whose wife became the face of protests outside Delaney Hall last summer, was released from U.S.

If you’re enjoying the skyline as the subway takes off from Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue one day in the future, the neighborhood’s tall red tower might read, “Will you marry me?”

Unlike most other places in the nation, New York City families have to apply for schools at every level of their education, starting in kindergarten.

The Mamdani administration has again extended the deadline to seek an exemption from the city’s new pied-à-terre tax, moving it from Tuesday to Oct. 17 as officials released data showing more than half the exemption requests sought by property owners so f…

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

In the late 1990s, hundreds of internet companies suddenly appeared in New York City, many of them finding a home in Midtown South.

Representatives for some of the country’s AI giants were on the digital hot seat Monday, answering sometimes hostile questions from the City Council about artificial intelligence hacking the government, leaking data, misleading consumers and fomenting ext…

Everyone wants a perfect victim in these situations, and I think we would benefit as a society if we realized that there are no such thing as perfect victims.

Former Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her allies announced they’d picked a new party chair at a late night zoom vote Sunday evening that appears to be in violation of multiple court orders.

A group of Queens elected officials say they’re determined to find funding for the city to purchase the Elmhurst site of a historic Black cemetery and turn it into a memorial to the freed slaves buried there.

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David Clarke estimates it will take him three to five years to clean up every forgotten tree bed, underpass and planter in New York City.

The City Council is set to grill officials from some of the biggest tech companies on Monday on the dangers of artificial intelligence, and ways they could rein them in amid increasingly dire warnings from industry leaders and others of rogue robots and m…

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

Thousands of New Yorkers were at risk of losing their homes when federal funding for their rental vouchers began drying up this spring — years ahead of schedule.

Two City Council members entered a homeless veterans shelter in Queens against the staff’s orders Thursday as they and other lawmakers ramped up pressure on the Mamdani administration to explain why it rejected federal funding for beds at the facility.

For the elderly artists who’ve lived for decades on the upper floors of a 19th century cast-iron SoHo loft building on Mercer Street, the last six years have been a physical and emotional nightmare with a singular cause: their landlord banned them from the

What do the Upper East Side, Maspeth and the middle of Staten Island all have in common?

MTA officials warned Wednesday that “high and unpredictable” tariffs brought on by the Trump administration could jack up the cost of new trains and buses by $1 billion by the end of this decade.

The City Council is set to hold a rare all-Council meeting on Oct. 5 to discuss the “potentially catastrophic risks” of artificial intelligence and debate a package of oversight legislation, including protections for AI whistleblowers and requirements for…

You might soon be able to ride a Ferris wheel or win a plushie on your way through Herald Square.

A Staten Island judge on Tuesday ordered the Mamdani administration to cancel thousands of notices sent to property owners warning them that they faced a second-home surcharge and to re-start the vetting process that erroneously listed the primary residen…

A New York State Appellate Court is siding with reformers aligned with New Kings Democrats, ruling that the dramatic changes to Brooklyn Democratic Party rules, voted on by district leaders, some of whom had lost their seats in the primary election, are n…

A new report by the CUNY School of Public Health and the Workers Justice Project, first obtained by The City Reporter, zeroes in on the issue of deactivation and reveals the vast physical and mental toll of delivery work on the city’s estimated 70,000 del…

What’s about to happen with agents is not just lowering the friction.

Now comes the boring part.

Get ready for a new high-water mark for the price of the New York City ferry.

New Yorkers who are enrolled in weekly unemployment insurance benefits will experience a temporary delay in their unemployment payments this fall as the state Department of Labor conducts a major overhaul of its online application system.

New York’s crackdown on physical mail in state prisons was supposed to help stem the flow of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs behind bars.

A Rikers Island detainee suffering from clear signs of medical distress waited for roughly 3 ½ hours in a clinic holding pen without being seen because jail officers didn’t tell medical staff he was having a medical emergency, a scathing new report releas…