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If you’re enjoying the skyline as the subway takes off from Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue one day in the future, the neighborhood’s tall red tower might read, “Will you marry me?” The city Parks Department announced in a bulletin Friday that it’s looking for a business to manage and maintain the famous Parachute Jump…
Unlike most other places in the nation, New York City families have to apply for schools at every level of their education, starting in kindergarten. The choices can be overwhelming. The nation’s largest school system has about 670 elementary and 140 K-8 schools, roughly 250 standalone middle schools and nearly 90…
The Mamdani administration has again extended the deadline to seek an exemption from the city’s new pied-à-terre tax, moving it from Tuesday to Oct. 17 as officials released data showing more than half the exemption requests sought by property owners so far have been granted. As of Tuesday around 9,300 applications…
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. For the first time in more than a year, New York City will begin issuing childcare vouchers to thousands of children sitting on a ballooning waitlist for the popular program, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday…
In the late 1990s, hundreds of internet companies suddenly appeared in New York City, many of them finding a home in Midtown South. Wall Street boomed, taking companies like Amazon.com and Pets.com public as their stocks soared. But it didn’t last. When investors realized that the tech boom was a bubble, they…
Representatives for some of the country’s AI giants were on the digital hot seat Monday, answering sometimes hostile questions from the City Council about artificial intelligence hacking the government, leaking data, misleading consumers and fomenting extremism. Representatives for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta…
Former Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her allies announced they’d picked a new party chair at a late-night Zoom vote Sunday evening that appears to be in violation of multiple court orders. Just 13 of 42 district leaders elected during the June primary voted to support the party’s…
Everyone wants a perfect victim in these situations, and I think we would benefit as a society if we realized that there are no such thing as perfect victims. Hosts Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel look at Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to appoint Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor…
A group of Queens elected officials say they’re determined to find funding for the city to purchase the Elmhurst site of a historic Black cemetery and turn it into a memorial to the freed slaves buried there. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. recently called on the administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani to…
This article was published in partnership with Documented. A house cleaner, a certified nurse’s assistant, a hair braider and a home health aid. These are some of the women who have been called into 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan in recent weeks and arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according…
David Clarke estimates it will take him three to five years to clean up every forgotten tree bed, underpass and planter in New York City. After that, he says, he’ll have to find something else to do. The 24-year-old Washington Heights resident has already made a big dent in his own neighborhood, making it his
The City Council is set to grill officials from some of the biggest tech companies on Monday on the dangers of artificial intelligence, and ways they could rein them in amid increasingly dire warnings from industry leaders and others of rogue robots and malevolent online agents. One city official warned that New York…
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Parents at several schools across New York City last spring were outraged when they lost beloved after-school providers in a contract overhaul overseen by the Department of Youth and Community Development. Many…
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…
Thousands of New Yorkers were at risk of losing their homes when federal funding for their rental vouchers began drying up this spring — years ahead of schedule. But now millions of federal dollars are coming to New York City to help keep those people housed. More than $600 million in congressionally appropriated…
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
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
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…
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…
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,
A State Supreme Court judge has blocked a hotly anticipated vote of the Brooklyn Democratic Party to select a new party chair planned for Tuesday evening, until another judge can clarify what rules will govern that vote. Judge Lisa Lewis signed a temporary restraining order Tuesday afternoon, hours after a state…
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 restart the vetting process that erroneously listed primary residences of thousands of New Yorkers as subject to the tax. After sending…
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…
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
Chaos and conflict marked a much-delayed, eight-hour organizational meeting of the Brooklyn Democratic County Committee on Wednesday. The result: The party rubber-stamped rules that a lower court judge had recently found were illegal. The contentious biennial meeting was the latest front in the war between the…
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…