A sign marks the location of the Rikers Correctional Center in the East River on March 9, 2021 in New York City. The mayor said the move will help the city move toward closing the troubled jail complex. [ more › ]
Voters are seen at a polling station during the 2024 U.S. presidential election in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the United States, on Nov. 5, 2024. Political experts say it’s because the party sees this as a potentially "blue wave" year, plus a shift in ballot formats. [ more › ]
Rebecca Jones Gaston is the new commissioner for the Administration for Children’s Services, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. Jones Gaston served as commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families in President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services and before
Nearly half a million people in New York State are poised to lose health insurance coverage as funding cuts from the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” begin to take effect. On April 1, the state’s Department of Health began sending out notices to New Yorkers who receive coverage on the
After years of delays and cost overruns, the city plans to finally open part of a quarter-billion dollar unit at Bellevue Hospital for seriously ill detainees on Rikers Island, THE CITY has learned. The Mamdani administration also plans to close the North Infirmary Command, the original Rikers
During a sometimes confrontational hearing Monday, City Council members questioned the independence of Nadia Shihata, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s nominee for Department of Investigation commissioner, citing her longtime friendship with a top Mamdani aide and $700 in donations she made to the mayor&
Charli XCX in a scene from Erupja. The festival returns to Lincoln Center and the MoMA this month for its 55th run. [ more › ]
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speaks as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani listens during a press conference on April 02, 2026 in New York City. Going forward, the department will publicly disclose both the number of hate crimes that are reported, and those that are confirmed by investigators. [ more ›
An advocacy group found 49% of students whose families lived in temporary housing with other family members or friends missed at least one out of every 10 school days last year. [ more › ]
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announcing New York City’s first-ever racial equity plan. It calls for the city to improve pay equity in city roles, provide anti-racism training for city staff, and improve data collection across various demographics. [ more › ]
Democrat Analilia Mejia and Republican Joe Hathaway Democrats have an advantage, according to early tallies of mail-in votes. [ more › ]
Inspector Andrew Natiw and other police officials brief press after officers shot a man the NYPD says was brandishing a knife early Monday morning. Police say the man advanced toward officers. He was in critical but stable condition Monday morning. [ more › ]
Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited a rent-stabilized building on East 103rd St. in Manhattan where a retaining wall collapsed a retaining wall prompted the city to issue a partial vacate order. After failing to influence a previous bankruptcy sale in January, the mayor is trying again to steer troubled re
In the months before his pal Eric Adams became mayor and made him chief of staff, Brooklyn attorney Frank Carone was hustling to build up a company he’d created to provide cash advances to doctors awaiting potentially lucrative insurance payouts in no-fault car accident cases. Carone’s f
Robot cars are no longer being put to the test — for now — on New York City streets. A pair of permits issued last year that allowed Waymo to test its autonomous vehicle technology in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan expired March 31, a Department of Transportation spokesperson confirmed to THE CITY
Taylor Brown, at an announcement where Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced she would be the first head of the city's new LGBTQIA+ affairs office. Attorney Taylor Brown is the highest-ranking openly trans person in the history of New York City government. [ more › ]
Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was arrested Friday in Pennsylvania following a police manhunt. [ more › ]
Approximately 40,000 New York City civil servants, retirees and their dependents may lose in-network coverage at NewYork-Presbyterian’s hospital network as early as next week, as the embattled hospital system continues a drawn-out dispute with insurer EmblemHealth over rates. The United Federation o
The rapper Cardi B in a Sept. 2, 2025, file photo. The Bronx native and rapper will judge a city jingle contest around applying for child care seats. [ more › ]
A FIFA World Cup advertisement at Newark Liberty International Airport. The proposal comes just months before the games. It would hike taxes in a 30-square mile area centered around MetLife Stadium. [ more › ]
