Seventeen-year-old Sabrina Gao, a rising senior, and 15-year-old Benjamin Xie, a rising junior, at Stuyvesant High School have taken on a duty some of the grown-ups have shirked: advancing socioeconomic and racial equity in the school’s admission process. They are well aware of a notorious problem a
City Councilmember Frank Morano, the lead sponsor of legislation to make Staten Island’s current flag official under city law. A City Council committee is set to vote Thursday on a bill that would put the borough’s current flag into city law. [ more › ]
The New York Harbor Boat captain arrested, faces 13 counts of reckless endangerment. [ more › ]
Kittens sit in their shelter at an ASPCA center in New York City in 2024. Many of the group's rescues have involved apparent hoarding situations, with deceased animals in homes and others in their own waste. [ more › ]
City health officials have detected nearly twice as many mosquito samples with West Nile virus so far this year compared to the same time last year, the health department warned this week — though there haven’t been any reports of New Yorkers testing positive for the mosquito-borne disease as yet. T
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has defended the rollout of the second home tax. The suit was brought by three homeowners — including the wife and father of a Republican city councilmember. [ more › ]
An entrance to the High Line Hotel in Chelsea from an event in 2017. A spokesperson for the city’s health department confirmed it had received a complaint about the presence of the bacteria in the four-star hotel. [ more › ]
The City Council plans to hold an oversight hearing on the Mamdani administration’s rocky rollout of a new tax on luxury second homes, as thousands of homeowners seek exemptions from the impending charges aimed at boosting the city’s budget. “Have you recently received a letter about the new pied-à-
Realtor Diane Barabas from Springfield, New Jersey. Concerns over the price of rent, home prices and healthcare are helping turn a once-safe Republican seat into a swing district. [ more › ]
Because it's costing the state more than the portraits of the previous three governors combined, here are your early links: Desperate schemes to avoid the pied-à-terre tax, New York City Marathon entry policy change, "Love Is Blind" casting in NYC and more. [ more › ]
Officers after a February 5, 2019 Brooklyn car crash that followed a police chase. The number of vehicle chases by NYPD officers increased sharply during the Adams administration, city data and the lawsuit state. [ more › ]
A state judicial oversight commission ordered the removal of a Queens Civil Court judge after finding he continued practicing law after taking the bench, allowed a paralegal with a felony criminal record to run his law office, mishandled client funds and repeatedly failed to comply with financial di
Attorneys and families of dozens of Legionnaires’ disease victims from last summer’s Harlem outbreak are suing the city and several contractors they allege failed to maintain cooling towers linked with the public health emergency in which seven people died and roughly 120 people were sickened. City
The NYCHA Baruch Houses buildings Kevin Maxwell allegedly called the boy "gay" as he struck him. [ more › ]
All aboard, baby. Tykes who ride MTA buses will have designated stroller-only spaces across the entire fleet of nearly 6,000 carriages by the end of the year, officials announced Thursday. The move marks more than just a baby step for a program that the transit authority began testing in 2022, when
Gov. Kathy Hochul signs legislation authorizing legal weed merchants to sell at approved community events, farmers markets included. [ more › ]
Armed with a close-up image of the bolt and two hours to be out of the office, could we find this historic artifact? [ more › ]
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Reading proficiency plunged across New York state last school year while math scores ticked up slightly, according to preliminary state test results obtained by Chalkbeat. About 48%
As New York City rolls out a new tax on pricey second homes, the state will be watching for evidence of potential tax fraud by owners who claim they mostly live elsewhere — thereby avoiding local or state income taxes or higher car insurance premiums — but actually spend most of their time in the ci
The teachers union said it is considering a legal challenge on behalf of more than 180 retired paraprofessionals whose disability pensions were slashed after the city’s pension system found their payments had been miscalculated for years. Earlier this summer, the retirees received letters from
