Because the zookeeper is in stable condition, here are your early links: Andrew Cuomo talkin' smack, jazz legend Sonny Rollins dies at 95, the mysterious Morningside Heights fast-casual restaurant that remains "coming soon" and more. [ more › ]
Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to lower the rent for some of the poorest New Yorkers. The mayor will announce on Tuesday that New Yorkers who are considered “extremely low-income” — no more than $50,880 for a family of four — will pay a quarter of their income on rent, down from 30%, on city-subsized ap
On a street corner in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a volunteer cuts a knife through a square container, releasing a flood of dead vapes in rainbow waves. The clear plastic box filled up over a three-day Earth Day festival at a performance nightclub across the street, where partygoers dropped off the eye-popp
The solarium’s celling is falling. The two new locations are in Crown Heights and Flatbush. [ more › ]
Dozens of protesters blocked entrances to Delaney Hall, a massive ICE detention facility in Newark, for hours Sunday evening after word spread that guards were trying to move a detainee involved in an ongoing work and hunger strike. The detainee, Martin Soto, was among those who announced the strike
Liam Kwon, 10, hoists his trophy. He's competing in nationals this week. Liam Kwon and Jay Nayak will join nearly 250 spellers from around the country. [ more › ]
Residents of Haven Plaza apartments have been advised not to take showers, pending an investigation of the water supply. [ more › ]
LIRR workers are some of the highest paid transit employees in the country. But most everyone at the MTA, including many people with office jobs at the agency's headquarters, gets premium pay. As LIRR workers went on strike, MTA Chair Janno Lieber pointed out they're the highest paid railr
Immigration right activists protest outside a Metropolis Garage in Manhattan on May 14, 2026, demanding the company stop leasing spaces to the federal government for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A federal government spokesperson said the contract termination would not affect its enforcement
Because nearly 30,000 of yucky water accidentally poured out, here are your early links: Alison Roman's shoppy shop, vintage Roosevelt Island tram cars, idling fines for delivery trucks and more. [ more › ]
Randi Song (left) and MacKenzie Chambers formed a tenant association at their upscale Downtown Brooklyn apartment building. Renters paying premium prices for New York City rentals are organizing with neighbors to get their money’s worth. [ more › ]
City health officials are advising residents of an East Village apartment complex to take precautions after two residents contracted Legionnaires’ disease there within the last 11 months. The advisory went out Tuesday in a Zoom call arranged by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in
The fire in Inwood killed three people and injured 14 others, including a firefighter. Smoker who lived at the building faces homicide charge, but prosecutors say corporate liability is also under review. [ more › ]
Spectators watch the Staten Island Memorial Day Parade on May 27, 2024. Summer is nearly upon us, as are a variety of outdoor events around the city. [ more › ]
TAKI 183 used to write his tag more than 50 times a day around New York City. [ more › ]
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation into whether the corporate landlord of an Inwood apartment building where multiple tenants died in a fatal May 4 fire is criminally liable for conditions that possibly played a role in the deadly conflagration, THE CITY has learned.
City Council Speaker Julie Menin is preparing to re-introduce a limited version of a controversial bill that would establish anti-protest “buffer zones” around schools, opting not to try an override of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s veto of an earlier bill. Menin’s new bill would direct the NYPD to plan pro
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The number of New York City families receiving offers to public preschool programs remained flat this year, despite a major push from Mayor Zohran Mamdani to increase outreach and expand the progr
The City Council will reintroduce a bill banning the sale of birds at pet stores across New York after a fledgling attempt last year didn’t get off the ground. Councilmember Harvey Epstein, a Democrat from Manhattan, will introduce the bill that would prohibit the sale of some birds in pet shops. Th
A Honduran man was arrested after a hearing inside 26 Federal Plaza a day after a judge barred most arrests inside New York City immigration courts. Court observers and advocates were shocked Tuesday morning after a 21-year-old Honduran man was taken by masked ICE agents after he left a routin
