Delivery giant DoorDash agreed to pay a $131.5 million settlement after New York’s worker and consumer protection agency found the company had unlawfully withheld wages from thousands of delivery workers who were paid late or not at all. A majority of the settlement funds will go directly to the approximately 260,000 deliveristas who were stiffed […]

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With summer in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to begin that fall-to-winter arc — and you may want to put getting your vaccine shots at the top of your to-do list.  The season for flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, typically runs from October through May, peaking between December and January, according to the […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted President Donald Trump at Gracie Mansion, where they discussed funding for counterterrorism security and the planned Sunnyside Yard housing development along with immigration enforcement. In a wide-ranging meeting on Monday, convened by the mayor while the president was in New York City for the UN General Assembly, the pair focused on […]

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He knows Gracie Mansion, I’m sure he’ll make some decoration recommendations about gold-plated lamé everywhere. … But I do wonder if they’ll stick to the things that make Donald Trump feel good. … Because Mamdani is still so popular, that impresses Trump. … I think that helps. … He needs some wins, and he’ll take […]

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The New York City Housing Authority has sent lease termination notices to a handful of public housing tenants who are refusing to relocate to make way for a $1.2 billion project to demolish and rebuild some deteriorating buildings in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Working with private sector developers, the Housing Authority plans to take down 18 […]

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You got two great mayors of New York over 400 years:  Fiorello La Guardia — let’s call him a mayor who had to do with the alternatives to capitalism. And Mike Bloomberg, not necessarily so described. But the two of them were transformational in very, very difficult times. Director Ric Burns and his writing and […]

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State Attorney General Letitia James on Friday announced she is intervening in the pending foreclosure sale of a parking lot in Elmhurst, Queens, that sits on top of an African burial ground. James filed a motion Friday morning asking for a court order declaring that whoever purchases the property “knows exactly who is buried there […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City’s chronic absenteeism rate remains stubbornly high, with 1 in 3 students missing at least 10% of the 2025-26 school year, according to figures released Thursday. The rate remained unchanged from 2024-25 before and is markedly higher than pre-pandemic levels, when […]

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The first Mayor’s Management Report of Zohran Mamdani’s tenure was released Thursday, squaring performance data with the mayor’s “pothole politics” plan for government. While the report doesn’t offer a full picture on the new mayor and his administration’s ambitious goals, it’s a start. The fiscal year it captures also represents the final six months of […]

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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, has tree-lined streets, views of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and, compared to most other areas in the city, hardly any new housing. But the neighborhood’s pace of development could soon change because of a new voter-approved City Charter measure meant to speed up new residential construction in areas that haven’t recently had much […]

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Henry Williams read the news of the release of long-suppressed 9/11 city documents last week with curiosity, but he soon found a confusing portal without any context or guide. A project manager by day, he said he was always “interested in messy, difficult data.” Here, he found plenty. So on Sunday, Williams downloaded the more than […]

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The city Correction Department has suspended a top official and is seeking to fire him over allegations that he made inappropriate comments to a female subordinate, The City Reporter has learned. Selwyn Fergus, 66, who was promoted to associate commissioner just last month, allegedly made inappropriate remarks to the employee and bragged about his close […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City is ratcheting up restrictions on students’ access to YouTube on school-issued devices, education officials told City Council members on Tuesday. The disclosure came just one day after Councilmembers Shekar Krishnan and Eric Dinowitz called on the city’s Education Department to restrict the […]

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Shortly after Katrina Gorham’s mother died in May 1988, the Gowanus Houses became home. As a child, Gorham moved from California to her grandmother’s apartment in the public housing complex, and her mothers ashes made the journey, too. Now, 46-year-old Gorham says the remains are nowhere to be found — along with many of her and […]

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The on-duty death last weekend of the third taxi driver in as many months highlights the physical and financial perils cabbies face behind the wheel, the head of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance said Tuesday. The death in the West Village late Friday of medallion owner Jagjit Singh came weeks after the union said […]

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As the Mamdani administration ramps up to release its first legally mandated streets plan, advocates on Tuesday will present a roadmap designed to push City Hall to meet its marks.  The five-year streets outlook, due by the end of this year, follows the city Department of Transportation’s lapses under previous Mayor Eric Adams, when it […]

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So far, so good on New York’s building emission rules. But, unfortunately for many property owners, the hard part is yet to come. The vast majority of the buildings required to slash their carbon footprints have done so or taken steps to, according to a report the Department of Buildings submitted to the City Council […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York’s Board of Regents voted Monday to press ahead with sweeping changes to graduation requirements, even as state officials acknowledged that key questions about the transition remain unresolved. Under the state’s timeline, current high school seniors will be the last graduating class […]

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A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled against Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn on Monday, declaring that outgoing executive committee members had “no authority” to vote on sweeping rule changes at a recent August meeting. The decision by Judge Jill Epstein, which is likely to be appealed, blocks an effort by party […]

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The bartender said 9/11 is like [messed]-up St. Patrick’s Day because of how busy it is for the bar… Hosts Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the different ways New Yorkers marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, the attempts to manufacture outrage about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s appearance at the commemoration […]

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Adoption of artificial intelligence is soaring in New York City, but the great AI jobs apocalypse is nowhere in sight — except in entry-level tech positions, where demand has plummeted, closing off a key avenue to well-paying jobs for young workers. A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released earlier this month […]

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A second deadly cluster of Legionnaires’ disease this year has been identified in the South Bronx, as a review of records by The City Reporter indicates several buildings in the affected area were not in compliance with required testing of cooling towers for the Legionella bacteria. The emergence of this new outbreak comes after Legionnaires’ killed […]

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The crowd lined up before the opening, clustering around the barricade across from Ground Zero.  A police officer opened the gate right at 8:30 a.m., surprised where they were headed — O’Hara’s Pub, at the corner of Greenwich and Cedar streets, which has become a destination for many every Sept. 11. Nearby, the mayor, four […]

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The long overdue disclosure of reams of air quality records by the administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week offered advocates and survivors some answers for what they knew for the last quarter-century: that the environment in the Lower Manhattan offices, homes and schools they returned to immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks on the […]

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Anita Hack cared for her Queens house for more than three decades, establishing a foothold for her multi-generational family in the city — even as the house repeatedly flooded over the years.  Now, that house is no more, demolished on city orders after floods in August compromised its stability.  With their major asset gone and […]

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With its long-planned shift to a zero-emissions bus fleet slowed by underperforming electric technology, the MTA plans to order 650 new coaches that rely on compressed natural gas. The MTA committed nearly a decade ago to having its entire fleet of close to 6,000 buses be emissions-free by 2040, but officials on Thursday said the […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. On Thursday, New York City’s public schools will begin the first full school year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His signature initiative will provide free childcare to about 2,000 2-year-olds — the initial phase of his ambitious promise to create a universal program. New York City is […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Twenty-five years after the World Trade Center attacks in Lower Manhattan, the federal government wants to study the health effects on an overlooked demographic: children, teens, young adults, and those in utero on Sept. 11, 2001. Previous health studies have mainly focused […]

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The City Reporter is an official partner of New York Story Fest. The oldest human art form returns to center stage. The inaugural New York Story Fest is here. Set against the backdrop of a city shaped by industry, migration and hope, this year’s showcase gathers award-winning New York City journalists, comedians, filmmakers, dancers and […]

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The death of a rookie transit worker who was struck by a New York City subway train last week transported Jeffrey Fleming back to the most terrifying moment of his career. Nearly a decade ago, he survived being hit by a G train that pinned him against a Brooklyn subway tunnel wall and killed his […]

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