Drivers packed a Manhattan boardroom Thursday to praise a New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission proposal to give the city’s 180,000 for-hire motorists a brake on fines that are stacked on top of license suspensions for missing mandated drug tests or vehicle inspections. The new proposal floa
Brooklyn Cyclones concessions workers have been getting stiffed on some of their paychecks this season, as tips disappeared under new management, according to interviews and records obtained by The City Reporter. Summer frequently draws long lines of spectators buying hot dogs and beers to the
A leading organization representing retired New York City civil servants living across the country is reviving a push that would block any future effort to shift the city’s 250,000 retirees and their dependents to a privatized Medicare plan. The bill, which is being re-introduced by Councilmember Ch
The employee has been charged with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child. [ more › ]
Every Tuesday, the Encore Aging Through Arts Center in Midtown bustles with activity and laughter as seniors sit at round tables, pen and paper in hand, playing bingo. This is no accident. On Tuesdays, the center serves its weekly plant-based meal, which the city has required at all its senior
Nearly six months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a raft of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, few New York City small businesses have benefited from tariff refunds, even as they struggle under new import levies. Importers across the country have claimed $121.75 billion in refunds since
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City has long failed to quickly provide special education services even after families won legal orders for them, generating more than two decades of litigation. Three year
Luigi Mangione, accused of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears for a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, on June 17, 2026. ( He has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges in the killing of a health insurance executive. [ more › ]
The digital age is dawning for older bus riders who refuse to dump coins for the MTA’s new fare-payment methods. With OMNY now in use on 92% of paid bus trips, according to the MTA, the transportation authority is nudging golden-aged holdouts who still drop loose change into fareboxes to switch to t
A New York punk scene legend was killed by a mail truck while walking home after performing at an East Village watering hole on Friday night. Chester “Chet” Mazur was a “torchbearer for sleaze rock,” one friend said, a staple of an ‘80s and ‘90s underground music scene laden with black leather
Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally. A Staten Island judge issued an order pausing the new surcharge on luxury second homes and voiding notices already sent to thousands of property owners. [ more › ]
The boat that capsized in New York Harbor Saturday evening Manuel Hernandez is facing two charges that allege his negligence led to the deaths. [ more › ]
Suffolk County police say a driver struck three construction workers in Nesconset, killing one and seriously injuring two. [ more › ]
A fake A.I. advertisement. An installation by comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross accurately parodied the cheeky dystopia on display underground. [ more › ]
Millburn Councilmember David Cosgrove has accused the township’s Republican committee chair of filing a false police report against him during a heated political campaign. [ more › ]
The indictment charges the housing specialist with several crimes, including identity theft. [ more › ]
“If you live in New York City, pay the New York City price. It sucks, I get it. Insurance is expensive here, but that’s the deal.” Even a “slow” August week in New York City is stuffed with stories about who pays and who benefits — and about who’s watching whom. https://feeds
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Reading scores sank in New York City last school year, with a nearly 14 percentage point decline among third graders, according to preliminary data released Friday. Among students i
New York Harbor at sunset. The US Coast Guard is investigating whether the company was operating an illegal charter boat. [ more › ]
Jennifer Peña raced home from middle school on a Friday afternoon two weeks before Christmas 1999, trying to beat her 3:30 p.m. curfew at her family’s Soundview apartment in The Bronx. She still remembers glancing at the clock. 3:14 p.m. Inside, her adoptive mother, Antonia Peña, l
