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. “We have the legal authority to enter to provide oversight” of city shelters, Councilmember Julie […]

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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 building’s sole elevator in 2019. But getting the city to do […]

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What do the Upper East Side, Maspeth and the middle of Staten Island all have in common? They’re three of the 12 community districts the city has officially designated as having the worst affordable housing droughts in New York City.  By city officials’ count, those areas have in the past five years produced the least […]

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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 hit on the thousands of components used to build trains and buses — including electronics, wheels, axles and vehicle frame […]

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You might soon be able to ride a Ferris wheel or win a plushie on your way through Herald Square. The organization in charge of Herald Square Plaza and Greeley Square, 34th Street Partnership, has put out a bid for a business to turn the outdoor spaces into a carnival park, complete with “amusement rides, […]

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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 third-party validators of AI systems.  Attorney General Letitia James has also asked New Yorkers to report AI […]

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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 residences of thousands of New Yorkers as possibly subject to the tax. After sending out the threatening […]

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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 null and void.  It’s the latest in the saga over control for the […]

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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 deliveristas. The CUNY research team polled 561 delivery workers between March […]

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What’s about to happen with agents is not just lowering the friction. The friction goes to zero. These systems could file an essentially unlimited number of any one of these types of requests to government, and we have no systems on our side to handle it, because we still have a person who’s cutting and […]

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Now comes the boring part. A years-long campaign to build the first new Hudson River rail tunnel in more than a century took a sizable step forward Monday with the launch of the first 1,700-ton machine that will bore through rock beneath the New Jersey Palisades en route to carving out a new two-tube rail […]

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Get ready for a new high-water mark for the price of the New York City ferry. The cost of riding the NYC Ferry may rise to $5 from $4.50 next month, a more than 11% increase. Discounted tickets for middle schoolers are also on the table. That’s pending approval Wednesday from the Economic Development Corporation […]

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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. The agency’s online unemployment portal will go offline for nine to 12 days beginning at 5 p.m. on Nov. […]

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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. But the number of times prison staff administered Narcan after suspected overdoses jumped 51% last year, while fatal overdoses remain well above the level recorded before the mail restrictions, according to […]

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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 released Friday shows.  John Price, 49, died from pneumonia with a MRSA infection, […]

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A federal grant rejected by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration that would have funded shelter for homeless veterans in New York City included clauses prohibiting the promotion of “gender ideology” and “denial of the sex binary,” which city officials say is why they pulled out of the longstanding program, The City Reporter has learned. City officials […]

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Dangerous winds and ripped-down trees may gum up your train travels this weekend, MTA officials warned Friday. With winds of up to 50mph forecast across the region, commuters should brace for Nor’easter-related impacts to commuter railroad, subway and paratransit service. Janno Lieber, the transportation authority’s chairperson and chief executive, said crews will be operating off […]

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“Terrorism” first entered English to describe a government, like France’s post-revolutionary Republic of Virtue, terrorizing its own citizens. Now it’s a word governments use to determine who counts as a threat.  In the final episode of FAQ NYC’s special series, A Knickerbocker History of America, Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel sat down with […]

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A federal judge has permanently capped the number of detainees who can be held at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells inside 26 Federal Plaza, siding with immigrant rights advocates who sued over squalid conditions on the building’s 10th floor. The permanent injunction issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan extends […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is pulling out of a federal program meant to help veterans transition out of homelessness, alleging the Trump administration would have required New York City to discriminate against transgender vets seeking shelter to receive the funding.  But federal officials are denying that claim, and say the city walked away from the […]

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Mayor Zohran Mamdani an anti-semite during a contentious speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, as more than 100 protesters, including Democratic House candidates, entertainers and other elected officials, were arrested outside.  “Shame on you. Shame on you for distorting the facts,” Netanyahu said, calling out New York’s […]

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A judge on Thursday did not commit to deciding on a lawsuit that challenges the rent freeze on about 1 million stabilized apartments. That means the price pause on one- and two-year leases will for now stay in place for contracts that start on or after Oct. 1, including renewals. The Rent Guidelines Board in […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City high school juniors, do you know what you’ll need to get a diploma next year? If state officials move ahead with a plan to scrap Regents exams as graduation requirements in June, you won’t need to pass those tests anymore. […]

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Chaos and conflict marked a much-delayed, eight-hour meeting of the biannual Brooklyn Democratic County on Wednesday.  The result: the party rubber-stamped rules that a lower court judge had recently found were illegal. The contentious meeting was the latest front in the war between the establishment Brooklyn Democratic Party, led by Democratic Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, […]

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A day before he was scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly, Micheál Martin, the prime minister or taoiseach of Ireland, addressed a different assembled crowd: the mostly senior-citizen bingo players at the New York Irish Center.  He and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in his first visit to the Long Island City community center, rolled the […]

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Election Day is coming up in New York City, on Nov. 3, 2026. For New Yorkers who voted on Primary Day in June, you might already know who’s on your ballot. But before you set off to collect that “I Voted” sticker — do you know what else is on your ballot?  This election cycle, […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. This is part one of a two-part series. Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free email newsletter to be the first to know when the next story is published. On the fourth floor of a fortress-like building in Lower Manhattan housing four public […]

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The powerful healthcare union 1199SEIU formally petitioned to unionize tens of thousands of home care workers across the state, the latest twist in New York’s controversial quest to streamline an $11 billion state-funded home care program. The union said Tuesday it had gathered enough signatures to trigger an election to allow 190,000 workers to join […]

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Executive Office for Immigration Review have blocked court observers, reporters and attorneys from several new immigration courtrooms inside 26 Federal Plaza this month. EOIR, a branch of the Justice Department, started sending immigrants attending routine deportation hearings without lawyers to these private courtrooms on Sept. 14. Dubbed […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. A major tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law last year will slash federal Medicaid spending by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade and make sweeping changes to healthcare programs serving millions of Americans. The Trump administration says […]

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