Talking to brand new immigrants to New York City, it reminds you of what an amazing place this is. They want to come here because of what it stands for. Having been a local reporter in this town for as long as I have, I know how grinding the bureaucracy is and how difficult it […]

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Oscar Belgal, the man shot by an ICE agent in Marble Hill earlier this month, will remain in custody after a federal judge in Brooklyn denied his request for release.  In a ruling Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez found that the 28-year-old Dominican father of two had received adequate medical care in his […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City is considering closing a small Harlem high school, the first in what could be a growing number of school merger and closure proposals this school year as the nation’s largest school system grapples with enrollment declines. Superintendent Fred Walsh, who […]

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The New York State Nurses Association has filed a complaint with a state labor board after it says a nurse practitioner was suspended without pay at Kings County Hospital Center in retaliation for union organizing. NYC Health + Hospitals, which administers the city’s public hospitals, suspended ICU nurse practitioner Sarah Dowd over what it called […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city government’s top lawyer is personally looking into allegations revealed by The City Reporter that top officials at the agency overseeing city purchasing and properties regularly used personal emails and texting to discuss official business. City employees are required to communicate about official business through official channels to ensure the […]

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Just months after the MTA installed five new elevators at the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium subway station, several were sidelined during baseball season, transit authority data shows — and one lift is expected to remain out of service until winter 2027 because of power problems. The elevators at the busiest station in The Bronx began returning […]

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Calling all New Yorkers: It’s time to choose your Congress members, governor and state legislators — and decide the fate of five ballot proposals backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Whom you can vote for and where you can vote depends on where you live. All registered voters in New York City will have the gubernatorial, […]

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One of the largest industrial warehouse managers in the country is eyeing a massive, once-public vacant building steps from the South Bronx waterfront  — raising concerns with locals who say the area is already overrun with similar businesses. The nearly 400,000-square-foot facility at 900 E. 132nd St. served as the New York Post’s printing plant until […]

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Did New York’s landmark program to give eviction help to low-income people cause a dip in emergency room visits? That’s what a new study points to, studying millions of ER visits in the first neighborhoods where the legal program rolled out. The research, published Wednesday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that emergency […]

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The city’s former parks commissioner had serious concerns about the proposed Metropolitan Park casino in Queens before it was approved by the state, noting the potential to increase flooding in the area and restrict parks access, documents shared with The City Reporter shows.  Sue Donoghue, who left the Parks Department as commissioner in June 2025, […]

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Neighbors stunned by the closure of a local newspaper in The Bronx are rallying behind an effort to relaunch the community mainstay, with or without help from its former owner — the borough’s largest employer. In August, the owners of the Norwood News — Mosholu Preservation Corp., an umbrella organization of Montefiore Einstein Medical Center […]

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It was the beginning of her first year at Hostos Community College, and Shannon needed help. The Bronx mother of two was excited to be in school, but right as she started her public health classes, we was stunned by a notice alleging she owed nearly $50,000 in arrears on her apartment. Shannon, who’s been […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. As new Medicaid work requirements are set to take effect in January, approximately 200,000 Bronx residents could get a reprieve. Because of the borough’s high unemployment rate, Bronx residents qualify for a federal hardship exemption from the new requirements, state officials said. […]

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After a twelve-hour shift, most people would undergo a bleary-eyed commute home, enjoy whatever show they’re currently binging, and go to bed before doing it all over again the next day. But not Alex Gomez. Gomez, a 31-year veteran of the city’s Emergency Medical Services, lives in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, a longtime landing strip for […]

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When the New York Knicks took home the NBA championship title for the first time in 53 years this summer, fans joked that a Knicks-inspired baby name trend may be nigh. Would someone name their newborn daughter “Anna Nobey” after forward OG Anunoby, who famously tipped in a game-winning shot to complete a 29-point comeback […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As New York City’s free childcare program is on track to reach 12,000 2-year-olds next year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed Monday which new neighborhoods will get the program. The expansion will bring the program to 22 of the city’s […]

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New York City is poised to finally pass a carriage horse ban after more than a decade of talk about that — but it’s far from clear what will actually happens after that. Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss and much more, including the court records that led to Katie’s story on the […]

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Back in the good old days of “honest graft,” William “Boss” Tweed didn’t mess around when it came to enriching himself at the expense of New York City taxpayers. Take the Tweed Courthouse, the opulent Italianate marble edifice next to City Hall that now houses the Department of Education headquarters. Originally budgeted at $250,000, it […]

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A Brutalist-style city office building in Lower Manhattan is slated for a transformation — the likes of which New York City has never seen. The city Economic Development Corporation is teaming up with a developer GFP Real Estate to demolish the building at 100 Gold St. and replace it with a supersized development at a […]

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There are mountains of data available online about New York City public schools if you know where to look. But for many parents, finding that data, deciding which parts are important, and figuring out what they tell you is overwhelming — especially when there are so many schools to choose from. That’s why Chalkbeat teamed […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Liz Vladeck, the Department of Education’s top lawyer, to lead his Office of Labor Relations — a crucial role tasked with representing the city in collective bargaining with unions representing hundreds of thousands of teachers, law enforcement, first responders and other civil servants. Vladeck will succeed Commissioner Renee Campion, who this […]

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A block-by-block tracking app formerly known as WalkNYC is now called Sidewalk, after the city alleged trademark infringement and demanded a name change. The app, which tracks walking routes around New York City, changed its name Thursday. The switch comes after the city’s Department of Transportation in July sent a cease-and-desist letter to the app […]

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In the 1800s, a journalist using the pen name Lisle Lester left her childhood home in Wisconsin and set off to create a life of adventure and travel typically unheard of for a woman at that time.  She launched the first magazine in Wisconsin, The Badger State Monthly, and later hired and organized the first […]

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Enrollment in a city-run program designed to provide health access to New Yorkers ineligible for insurance, including undocumented residents, continues to decline.  The number of people signed up for NYC Care decreased 12% from 140,222 patients in fiscal 2025 to 123,124 in fiscal 2026, according to the latest Mayor’s Management Report.  The program has served […]

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Here’s a sign of what congestion pricing is bankrolling. The MTA has begun slapping “Made Possible by Congestion Pricing” seals on transit upgrades funded by the Manhattan vehicle-tolling program that launched last year. Four elevators being installed at the 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue subway complex on Thursday became the first to be billed as products […]

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Last week Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch was forced to admit the NYPD had mistakenly allowed a police officer to retire before he could face pending disciplinary charges for the death of a Queens teenager experiencing a mental health crisis. What Tisch did not mention was that the department had also failed for months to notify […]

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The Dominican man shot by an immigration agent in Marble Hill was arrested without a valid warrant and is being held in solitary confinement without proper medical care, according to a new court filing submitted by his attorneys Wednesday afternoon.  Oscar Belgal had just picked up his son from school then taken him to McDonald’s […]

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A couple hundred CUNY community college students who were due to receive critical state financial aid got an email last week saying their funds would be delayed until further notice, just as officials expanded the affected scholarship program. The scholarship funding is the state component of the CUNY Reconnect Program, which offers opportunities for adult […]

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Senior managers in the agency that handles government purchasing and leases tried to hide their discussions about hot-button issues from the public by communicating via personal text messages, emails and hand-delivered written memos, an investigation by The City Reporter has found. The conversations involve high-level executives of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), who […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Will state officials soon allow New York City to return to paper-and-pencil standardized tests in grades 3-8? The state Education Department isn’t ruling it out after more than half of New York City Council members signed a letter this week urging state officials […]

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