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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York will participate in the new federal scholarship tax credit in hopes of generating millions in new dollars for public school students, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday. Hochul becomes the second Democrat — following Colorado Gov. Jared Polis — to voluntarily opt […]

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City officials on Tuesday will kick off a new program to claw back up to $25 million in unpaid tickets, clearing some of the interest for debtors so they can pay the original fine.  The program, dubbed “Debt Demolisher,” is for homeowners and small businesses who’ve racked up Environmental Control Board judgements for everything from […]

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The man from the Dominican Republic shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Marble Hill still has a bullet lodged in his neck, four days after the shooting, and is being held in solitary confinement at a federal prison, without access to adequate medical care, his attorneys said in a statement Sunday evening.  […]

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Election Day is approaching, but Mayor Zohran Mamdani—who won’t be on the ballot—was once again the main character in city politics, facing what co-host Christina Greer calls “probably the roughest week of his mayoralty.” Christina and Harry Siegel dig into Mamdani’s response to the Marble Hill ICE shooting and how it seemed to expose both […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced a series of reforms for the NYPD, including a “comprehensive review” of the department’s use-of-force policies and a series of changes designed to “strengthen accountability when police officers are accused of serious misconduct.” The announcement marks the mayor’s first major attempt to confront concerns raised by his left-leaning base […]

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Juan Morales was watering his tomato plants on his apartment roof when he heard screams coming from below his perch above Jacobus Place in Marble Hill. Moments later, a helicopter buzzed over the neighborhood. Morales, 56, who walks with a cane, made his way down to the street and into what he described as a […]

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In a series of phone calls between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security made clear that it wanted the NYPD to arrest Oscar Belgal, the man who had just been shot in Marble Hill by an ICE agent.  But city officials refused, saying that the NYPD can’t arrest someone […]

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The fate of a beloved local movie theater is playing out with some silver-screen melodrama on the East Side: Does the Kips Bay AMC want to stay or go? The health behemoth slated to take over the space, NYU Langone, says the movie chain wanted out of the neighborhood years ago, according to local elected […]

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A federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired at least seven shots on a crowded Marble Hill street Thursday afternoon, sending passersby ducking for cover. In the chaotic aftermath, a man slumped outside his dented car, bleeding from his neck and fading in and out of consciousness, eyewitnesses said. Nearby, an agent held the man’s […]

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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.  District Council 37 had supported the democratic socialist upstart in the dramatic Democratic primary that summer, and Mamdani would return the favor, he said, by […]

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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. Police Officer Salvatore Alongi is one of two cops the Civilian Complaint Review Board […]

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One man 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.  “At around 4pm today, there was a shooting involving federal law enforcement agents in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx,” the police department’s post said. […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. New York City’s bodegas have long been hailed as good neighbors, small mom-and-pop institutions that provide basic food items, like milk and eggs, in a pinch. They’re often vital community resources in neighborhoods ignored by traditional supermarket chains. Now, as thousands of […]

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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 — all for free.  Every first Thursday of the month, the city’s […]

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Martin Soto, the Peruvian immigrant whose wife became the face of protests outside Delaney Hall this summer, was released from ICE detention late Tuesday night, following a federal judge’s order. Dramatic video showed Gabriela Soto and her two young children racing to Martin as he emerged from the Elizabeth Detention Center. Reunited eight months after […]

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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 choices can be overwhelming. The nation’s largest school system has about 670 elementary and 140 K-8 schools, roughly 250 standalone middle schools and nearly 90 6-12 schools, and more […]

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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?”  The city Parks Department announced in a bulletin Friday that it’s looking for a business to manage and maintain the famous Parachute Jump — a […]

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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 far have been granted. As of Tuesday around 9,300 applications had been received by […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. For the first time in more than a year, New York City will begin issuing childcare vouchers to thousands of children sitting on a ballooning waitlist for the popular program, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday. The voucher program provides kids up to age […]

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In the late 1990s, hundreds of internet companies suddenly appeared in New York City, many of them finding a home in Midtown South. Wall Street boomed, taking companies like Amazon.com and Pets.com public as their stocks soared. But it didn’t last. When investors realized that the tech boom was a bubble, they abandoned the sector. […]

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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 extremism. Representatives for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta all testified at the hours-long hearing, while the Elon Musk-owned SpaceXAI ignored […]

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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. Hosts Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel look at Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to appoint Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor looking into […]

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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.  Just 13 of 42 district leaders elected during the June primary voted to support the party’s handpicked successor, Assemblymember […]

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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. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. recently called on the administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani to step up […]

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A house cleaner, a certified nurse’s assistant, a hair braider and a home health aid.  These are some of the women who have been called into 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan in recent weeks and arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to advocates and a review of a half-dozen federal habeas corpus […]

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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. After that, he says, he’ll have to find something else to do. The 24-year-old Washington Heights resident has already made a big dent in his own neighborhood, making it his […]

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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 malevolent online agents. One city official warned that New York is already […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Parents at several schools across New York City last spring were outraged when they lost beloved after-school providers in a contract overhaul overseen by the Department of Youth and Community Development. Many families asked: Why mess with programs their communities liked? Parents rallied, […]

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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. But now millions of federal dollars are coming to New York City to help keep those people housed. More than $600 million in congressionally appropriated funds can […]

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