A line meant to bring hydropower from Canada to New York City has been out of service for 10 days with no end in sight as another heat wave sets in. The Champlain Hudson Power Express, a project that runs more than 300 miles below land and bodies of water from Québec to Astoria, can […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City officials are expanding a slew of the city’s highest-demand special education programs into preschool classrooms for the first time, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. The expansion this fall is meant to help address the city’s longstanding failure to provide classroom seats […]

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Summer’s high temperatures often bring electric bills to match — and this year New Yorkers are feeling the burn. The air conditioners keeping you cool guzzle electricity, which tends to cost more as demand spikes. Heat waves like the one New York City experienced in early July drive that demand and make your ACs work […]

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Thousands more public school students will receive free swim lessons next year under new City Council funding, part of a long-term effort to teach every second grader in New York City how to swim. The Council has allocated $1.5 million to the nonprofit group Wave Makers, which was first launched more than two years ago […]

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New York will impose a yearlong moratorium on new energy-intensive data centers, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday — the first such ban in the country as officials scrutinize the burgeoning sites’ impact on local environments. Under an executive order, the state will not grant environmental permits for data centers of at least 50 megawatts for […]

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The parents of a teenager who tumbled to his death from a breakaway horse carriage in Central Park last month will this week plead with the City Council to banish the tourist trade from the park. A Wednesday hearing on the future of horse-drawn rides that have been Central Park fixtures since the 1860s follows […]

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Some people are always going to have a bad-faith reaction to this mayor… Instead of “look at this online map that he made an error on,” it’s “he’s a communist who wants to take over our city, and this is just the beginning.” Mayor Mamdani this week blamed the previous administration for a map of […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Of Staten Island Technical High School’s nearly 300 offers, just one went to a Black student. At Stuyvesant, that number was three — the lowest number since at least 2014, which is as far back as the city’s public data goes. And at the High School […]

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ICE has been holding a child in an ICE detention center meant for adults for nearly two months due to a clerical error, the boy’s attorneys allege in a federal lawsuit filed in May.  Federal Judge Marilyn J. Horan in Pennsylvania on Thursday ordered ICE to transfer the individual, known as A.D. in legal filings, […]

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Situated in prime Midtown locations near Grand Central, the boutique Fitzpatrick hotels were perfectly positioned to take advantage of a surge of tourists flooding into New York for the World Cup. But with seven of the eight World Cup matches to be played at MetLife Stadium across the Hudson completed, revenue increased only about 15% […]

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The City Council will vote this week on a bill to boost underpaid para-professionals in the city school system with a $10,000 payment that’s separate from their negotiated salary – even though it sparked concerns from the mayor’s office over whether it’s legal. The bill, which was re-introduced in February by Councilmember Carmen De La […]

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“Would they cheer so loudly if it was a white kid shot? I don’t think so. Would he have shot four white kids? I don’t think so.…  Is there a racial edge to this? That’s all there is. Somebody asked me, ‘Is it beneath the surface a racial thing?’ Beneath the surface?! I mean, it’s […]

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Diana Ruiz Cabrera was several hours into her shift at the massive office-to-residential conversion at the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown in mid-February when she slipped from a step ladder and fell on her back about five feet below, tearing several ligaments in her ankle in the process. She left the structure in tears, descending […]

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The nearly-Olympic-sized Red Hook Pool in Brooklyn can hold more than 4,400 people, but only one would-be bather turned out for a meeting Thursday night where Parks officials explained why the neighborhood’s summer lifeline has failed to open on time.  “This is not something you can foresee — this building is 90 years old, and […]

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Two years ago, Jessica Kaplan had about three months to move her entire theatrical scenery shop. The building where Sightline Fabrication had operated since 2008 had been sold, she said, and the landlord needed Kaplan and her partner out. In a frenzy to find a new place, Kaplan toured 30 alternative spaces, but none were […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at https://www.healthbeat.org/newsletters. As the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene tries to identify the source of the Legionnaires’ outbreak on the Upper East Side, elected officials and residents are raising questions about the enforcement of a new law seeking to curb the spread […]

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The second largest bank in the country. The biggest cosmetics company in the world. Two of the top 50 U.S. law firms. And a score of AI companies ranging from industry leader Anthropic to small startups. What they all have in common is that in the last three months they signed long-term leases for office […]

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested at least five people inside New York City immigration courts in recent weeks, despite two federal court orders banning the practice in most cases.  Advocates are asking a federal judge to step in, saying the arrests may violate those orders. In response, in court filings this week, ICE justified […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In his first six months in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued a steady stream of announcements and policy initiatives in the three areas that powered his affordability-focused campaign: childcare for kids 5 and younger, transportation, and housing. But when it […]

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Brian Kendall was 16 when Brooklyn detectives arrested him for a fatal shooting outside a Flatbush video game parlor, despite eyewitnesses describing an older, heavier gunman and telling police the teenager wasn’t the shooter. Thirty-eight years later — after his murder conviction was overturned when prosecutors concluded he was “likely innocent” — Kendall is suing […]

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Local lawmakers called for the city and state to compensate hungry New Yorkers who have had their SNAP benefits stolen after an article in The City Reporter detailed the prevalence of the food benefits scheme.  Citing The City Reporter’s article, legislators noted how California had successfully reduced the crime and demanded information on what the […]

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City officials received complaints about unsafe conditions at the Midtown tower at risk of collapse as far back as spring of 2025, The City Reporter has learned, as officials scramble to secure the area spanning a busy stretch of Manhattan near Grand Central Terminal. The office tower at 235 E. 42nd Street was undergoing construction […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Student OMNY cards are going digital, at least for some New York City students, Chalkbeat has learned. New York City’s Education Department is launching a pilot program for virtual student OMNY cards at seven schools, officials confirmed on Monday. Officials declined to share which […]

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This story was produced as part of a collaboration between The City Reporter and MindSite News, the nation’s only nonprofit news outlet focused on mental health. Sign up for the MindSite News Daily newsletter here. Genaro watched as four police officers crowded out of the elevator, their boots thudding through the narrow hallway of the […]

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For the Netflix children’s animation “Team Hot Wheels,” Brandon V. Fletcher, 45, painstakingly drew the show’s four mischievous heroes’ antics frame by frame, often spending days sketching for a second of animation screentime. But when his company, Noggin, a children’s streaming service, was acquired by Paramount in 2024, Fletcher lost his senior animator job, alongside […]

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When Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to set their air conditioners to 78 degrees, echoing what mayors before him have advised during heat waves for decades, his critics again lost their minds. Hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel talk with Alex Brook Lynn, FAQ NYC’s original producer calling in from Paris, about heat waves, sharks […]

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