The sibling owners of an Ozone Park pizzeria charged with bribing a top aide to ex-Mayor Eric Adams pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy charges Wednesday, the first guilty pleas in a case that kicked off a damning series of corruption probes of the Adams administration nearly three years ago. Brothers Anthony and Joseph Livreri were […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. With just two days until the start of the new school year and a preschool payment crisis still simmering, Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday named a new leader for the beleaguered office in charge of executing his ambitious childcare agenda. Erica Phillips, a nonprofit leader […]

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Reformers faced off against the Brooklyn Democratic Party establishment in New York State Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon with the future of the county’s political party hanging in the balance. Before a courtroom packed with supporters and critics of current party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn alike, both camps made their case to Judge Jill Epstein, who […]

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Fourteen months after Donald Trump signed the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill to provide billions in tax cuts while seeking to reduce the cost of programs like SNAP food aid and Medicaid, the South Asian Council for Social Services in Queens is trying to help families who are the first to be ensnared in the […]

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In the months after the Sept. 11 attack, New York City set up a hotline for residents and workers in Lower Manhattan who had questions about what to do, and how they could get help, as they eased back into their lives downtown. A resident of 22 River Terrace in Battery Park City — less […]

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There are all of these people who were forgotten, who have health issues or are ticking time bombs with health issues they don’t know about yet… This hasn’t gone away, and the financial implications of acknowledging it are huge. More than three times as many people have now died of 9/11-related illnesses as were killed […]

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Workers without unions will soon be able to leverage the resources of City Hall to help organize and have a voice on the job. On Labor Day, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new executive order to create the new Office of Worker Power, which will help workers connect with union organizers and educational resources to […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s chief counsel said Friday that he took “immediate corrective action” after learning a City Hall communications staffer set some chats on an encrypted app to “auto-delete” official messages. The Columbia Journalism Review earlier this week published an article by university researchers showing the mayor’s new-media team used the app Signal to share […]

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Top Correction Department leaders are actively working to undermine the court-appointed officials overseeing the troubled jail system, the federal monitor warned Thursday, accusing the commissioner and other leading figures of evading transparency and interfering with efforts to enforce a sweeping reform order. In a scathing letter to federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain, monitor Steve Martin […]

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A track worker was struck and dragged to her death by a D train late Thursday night while setting up flags to warn of subway construction ahead, city and union officials said. Moet McCullum, a 41-year-old construction flagger, just after 11:30 p.m. Thursday at the 161st Street–Yankee Stadium station in The Bronx, the MTA said. […]

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After Labor Day weekend, New York City will no longer allow piles of black trash bags to sit on street curbs — attracting rats and befouling sidewalks — outside residential buildings with up to nine units.  The Sanitation Department will begin issuing summonses and fines Tuesday for owners of such buildings who don’t use city-sanctioned […]

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Organized labor in New York City has been mightily active so far this decade, and the first half of 2026 was no exception. Nurses, public defenders, hotel workers and college faculty all walked off the job this summer to historic effect, winning substantial contract improvements. But, while union advocates may have reason to pat themselves […]

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The city Landmarks Preservation Commission is evaluating a new proposal to protect the site of a 19th century burial ground for Black New Yorkers that was turned into a parking lot by an anonymous property developer.  Last week the Elmhurst History and Cemeteries Preservation Society and the pastor of St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church […]

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In the second episode of the FAQ NYC podcast’s three-part special series, A Knickerbocker History of America, Katie Honan, Harry Siegel and guest cohost Asad Dandia, the Brooklyn borough historian, sat down in front of a live audience at P&T Knitwear to discuss just three of the city’s many, many “riots” — “a violent disturbance […]

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After years of advocacy from street vendors, New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has begun accepting new applications for merchandise vending licenses for the first time in decades. But many vendors vying for one of the 10,500 new licenses say they worry the approval process  could keep them waiting for years more. […]

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After months of waiting, Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday released the outlines of New York City’s approach to dealing with artificial intelligence and screen time in schools next year. But just eight days before the start of the school year, there are still many details to be worked out. The city will ban student-facing generative AI […]

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New York City’s richest earners have gotten richer since before the pandemic, while lower-income earners have struggled to keep up with high inflation, according to a new report on income inequality from the city comptroller. Wednesday’s report analyzed tax returns from 2019 to 2024, finding income inequality in the city has increased over those years […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday appeared to defend his team’s use of Signal to communicate with hundreds of online influencers after a report that his head of “new media and cultural communications” sends them talking points, daily updates and interview opportunities through the encrypted messaging app. The Columbia Journalism Review this week published an article […]

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City Council members grilled city health officials over the Mamdani administration’s response to a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side this summer that killed 11 people and ranked among the largest in the city’s history. Lawmakers on the Council health committee zeroed in on the Health Department’s struggle to speedily hire and […]

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Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. is calling on the city to purchase the site of an historic burial ground in Elmhurst, Queens, that was turned into a parking lot and transform it into a memorial for the enslaved and formerly enslaved New Yorkers buried there. Richards said he was calling for action in response […]

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The end of summer can sting. And for many beachgoers in the Rockaways, that’s not a metaphor. A plethora of jellyfish have appeared on the peninsula’s shores and in its Atlantic waters in numbers locals haven’t seen in years, New Yorkers have said in recent weeks. The squishy creatures have been spotted floating in the […]

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How long does it take to go from the emergency room to a hospital bed at the city’s public hospitals? It depends on where you go looking for help.  At Kings County Hospital Center in East Flatbush, patients waited an average of 27 hours. At Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, the wait was nearly 24 hours […]

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin came to New York City on Tuesday to announce the completion of “Operation Rotten Apple” after targeting 2,100 immigrants across the state for arrest in the past month, he said. At a press conference inside DHS offices at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, Mullin lambasted Mayor Zohran Mamdani as […]

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The remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled through New York City five years ago, dumping unprecedented amounts of rain on the city and resulting in 13 New Yorkers’ deaths. The storm, which served as a wake-up call about the safety risks of extreme rain, still looms large today, having marked a shift in how city officials […]

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For-hire drivers in New York City pleaded at a public hearing Tuesday for expanded access to parking while on the road, saying the search for restroom relief can be especially draining for women who get behind the wheel. “Some women drivers at some point have said, ‘Ooh, do we have to wear diapers?’” Michele Dottin, […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. The Mamdani administration and City Council are laying out dueling plans to prevent future Legionnaires’ outbreaks after the pneumonia-like illness left nearly a dozen dead and scores of others sickened on the Upper East Side this summer. They might […]

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A record amount of outside spending from deep-pocketed donors flooded the 2025 citywide elections, but the windfall wasn’t always successful in getting candidates elected or defeated, a new analysis by the city’s Campaign Finance Board shows. Mayor Zohran Mamdani won two competitive elections despite tens of millions of dollars spent against him, in what turned […]

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Cabbies who are pinched to find parking anytime nature calls are set to get some relief from a new program that will allow taxis to be stationed in commercial metered spaces citywide. Yellow cab drivers currently have access to just 151 taxi-only parking spots south of 60th Street in Manhattan’s central business district, along with […]

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“I don’t do much reporting on the Brooklyn Democratic Party because so many other people in our newsroom usually do, but because I’ve been living in Rockaway, I said to my hardworking colleague and friend Gwynne, ‘I’ll go. I’ve got a car and it’s 15 minutes from where I’ve been living. It’s all good.’  “Well, […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday pledged to address payment delays that are threatening the rollout of his signature free childcare program for 2-year-olds and pushing some providers to the brink of closure ahead of the Sept. 10 school opening. Mamdani, who made the expansion […]

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