“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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New York City cabbies paid tribute to one of their own Sunday on the Harlem block where a driver died at the wheel during a July heat wave. The solemn memorial came two days after their fundraising campaign shipped his remains to his family in Ivory Coast. Richard Coulibaly, a taxi driver for nearly 20 […]

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Ten human remains found at a historic African burial ground in Queens were disinterred and placed in storage. Now, the pastor of the church that is steward of the site wants them reburied and the plot transformed into a memorial to the slaves and freed slaves still buried there. The Rev. Kimberly Detherage, pastor of […]

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This story was originally published by Vital City. Sign up for their newsletter at https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/#/portal. What To Know About Trends in Murder, Assault, Rape and More New York City is now in its fourth consecutive year of declining major crime following the pandemic-era surge. Murders in the first half of the year fell to 128 — the […]

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in New York City are once again surging, driven in part by an increase in people arrested and released the same day, new data covering the agency’s activity through early August shows. The latest data, obtained by the Deportation Data Project through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, offers new insights […]

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After driving a New York City taxi for nearly 20 years, the last trip Richard Coulibaly will take is home to Ivory Coast for his own funeral. The cabbie’s return to the West African country he left three decades ago grew out of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and fellow Ivorians tapping into a […]

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The release of a citywide strategy for building 2,100 public bathrooms will be delayed after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team said the task is too complicated to meet its deadline.  The legislation, dubbed the Bathroom Bill, passed the City Council in April 2025 and set out to create a comprehensive plan to double the number of […]

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A year ago, former Mayor Eric Adams launched a sweeping, and costly, new plan to bridge the digital divide in the city’s public schools: purchasing 350,000 new Chromebook laptops equipped with free T-Mobile internet service. The four-year contract, set to cost the city nearly $330 million, aimed to help schools with large shares of low-income and homeless […]

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Last Sunday, 87 Vanderbilt University students moved into their rooms at the Nashville university’s new campus in Chelsea, pioneers in the school’s plan to establish an outpost in New York City that will offer a semester away for undergraduates and create a new graduate program in technology and business. Vanderbilt has committed to spending $44 […]

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The city’s Department of Correction has blown past a new deadline to give Rikers Island  detainees a digital platform to review evidence in their cases. The access was mandated by the City Council last year which gave DOC nine months — until July 1 — to find a vendor and implement the evidence review system […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. After intense backlash to its initial artificial intelligence policy, New York City’s Education Department ordered principals last month to halt software purchases while officials develop new guidelines. But the city has yet to release a new policy or lift the purchasing freeze despite the approaching Sept. 10 start of […]

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On a recent blistering day, dozens of tourists stood in line in Bowling Green, waiting to snap a photo with one of New York City’s most famous statues, “Charging Bull.”  Arthur Piccolo, the artwork’s longtime champion and steward, said he and the bull’s late creator, Arturo Di Modica, never anticipated so much hype.  “I say […]

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Brooklyn Democratic Party district leaders voted to enact sweeping — and widely decried — changes to the county party’s bylaws Tuesday night that reformers say will help current chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn maintain control of the organization, according to several people familiar with the voting. Despite calls from every major state Democratic elected official to […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Students in Houston and Las Vegas returned to school on Aug. 10. In Los Angeles, kids went back on Aug. 12, and Miami’s students started the following day. Students returned Monday in Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver. But in New York City, students in the nation’s largest school […]

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The Queens property where the owner put up a parking lot on an 18th century burial site for free Blacks is now in foreclosure and up for sale — a transaction that could be complicated by strict state rules meant to preserve the human remains interred in unmarked graves.  Three weeks ago the attorney appointed […]

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Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada spells trouble for the New York economy, especially the city’s still recovering tourist economy. The number of Canadians visiting New York fell by 26% last year and spending by tourists from there is down 14% from the pre-pandemic level, according to the Hotel Association of New York.  NYC […]

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That’s a wrap, folks. The beloved AMC movie theater on Second Avenue and East 31st Street in Kips Bay will close by the end of 2026, the company confirmed Monday in a statement to The City Reporter. “We expect that AMC Kips Bay 15 will continue operating until the end of 2026, at which time […]

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Pressure is mounting on Brooklyn Democratic Party leadership to cancel an executive committee vote planned for Tuesday night that could dramatically reshape the size and composition of that committee. In a NY1 interview and in a video on social media last week, Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn billed the changes as reforms to make the […]

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“The bar is so low. So many people have come to expect nothing from government, and so many people who have no idea what they should be demanding from government because we’ve pushed civics out of the conversation… I  think that’s the Mamdani special sauce: I’m telling you in real time what I’m doing. I’m […]

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The ragged gravel parking lot in Elmhurst, Queens, looked like so many others scattered across the city — a squalid plot of open space cluttered with dozens of busted-up, broken-down cars and trucks. Some had been deposited there as part of the NYPD’s efforts to remove abandoned vehicles from city streets. But just below the […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani officially kicked off a new initiative to make emergency repairs at parks, playgrounds, and rec centers across the city, in three weeks or less.  The “Renew Crew” will bring 24 painters, electricians, plumbers and other workers to make fast improvements to Parks Department sites. The repairs aren’t major capital projects. Instead, the […]

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Debra Ack beamed with pride as she looked at the two-story brown brick warehouse on Jamaica Avenue in East New York. To anyone passing by, the vacant 9,500-square-foot building looks like any other lot in a neighborhood known for its mix of industrial sites and residential homes. The building itself has been home to an […]

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“There’s a quality that all great historians have of being a little prophetic — an ability to identify deep trends in American society and history and then, without claiming to speak for the future, see what might happen.” Joel Feingold, the researcher who worked with the late historian Mike Wallace on the final two books […]

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A raft of last-minute proposed changes to Brooklyn Democratic Party rules, billed as reforms by leadership, is drawing the ire of critics who see an eleventh-hour attempt by party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn to maintain her grip on power after losing the majority of district leaders in the June primary election. In an interview with […]

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Andrés, a Colombian immigrant living in College Point, Queens, had just picked up some Peruvian food on an evening in late June, and was driving his 6-year-old daughter and wife home when they were suddenly boxed in by unmarked cars.  Masked ICE agents jumped out and started ordering him to get out of the car. […]

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A fight over pollution along the Queens-Long Island border is boiling over as residents from one side of the dividing line accuse a concrete recycling plant on the other of spoiling their bayfront air — and see an opening to close the facility for good.  The Inwood Material Terminal sits near Motts Basin in Jamaica […]

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Miles of water, scenic views and natural coastline await you around Jamaica Bay, which has shaken its past as a dumping ground for the city and resurged in recent years as a wild landscape.  There are multiple ways to enjoy the bay, from active kayaking and hikes to eating and drinking a few steps away. […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Of the estimated 67 million people in the United States who will likely be affected by Medicaid cuts, about 3.6 million recipients live in New York City, and more than 1.3 million are concentrated in three congressional districts. Those districts cover parts of The Bronx, northern […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration sued the New York City Council on Wednesday over its newly enacted bill to pay paraprofessionals one-time $10,000 payments, saying it runs afoul of the state law that restricts public-sector wage increases to collective bargaining and could set an expensive precedent.  The Council passed the bill last month with a veto-proof […]

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