New York University is located in numerous repurposed buildings in Lower Manhattan. Police charged 23-year-old Alexander Stepnowsky with burglary as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and criminal trespassing. [ more › ]
The former home of Manhattan’s only Planned Parenthood clinic in Noho is set to become luxury condos. The Landmarks Preservation Commission this week approved a plan to convert the Classical Revival-style commercial building at 26 Bleecker Street into 15 luxury condominium residences. Planned
Because he's showering and cooking in there, here are your afternoon links: Every borough has a City Council member in the queer caucus, Knicks watch party outside MSG is back on, bat-flipping at New Jersey youth baseball games and more. [ more › ]
The Hit Factory at 421 West 54th Street has a storied history as the recording studio where rock greats like John Lennon, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Madonna, and Michael Jackson created platinum records. Asking $1,395,000, this one-bedroom-plus-office condo has a
A benefit of an apartment that includes the parlor level of a Park Slope brownstone is the potential for some rich detail. That potential is met in this interior with woodwork, a built-in, stained glass transoms, and an impressive stained glass skylight in the dining room. The duplex also includes&h
The food hall at Fifth Avenue’s landmarked Lord & Taylor building will finally open later this month, making the historic Midtown property accessible to the public for the first time since the department store closed in 2019. Shaver Hall, a 35,000-square-foot dining and entertainment desti
Plans for a major renovation of the historic Studio 54 theater moved forward on Monday. The City Planning Commission certified Roundabout Theatre Company’s application for a special permit to generate bonus floor area to enable a $100 million rehabilitation of the Manhattan theater, which has
It's a new month with great new rentals to go along with it. Where to start? A good place is with the ones StreetEasy users themselves love. Check out the five most popular rental listings of the week, which include a 2-bedroom in Two Bridges with a washing machine and a Park Slope 1-bedroom with a
An NYPD car is seen in New York City on July 4, 2024. More teenagers have been arrested for fatal shootings so far this year than any other age group, according to police data compiled by Gothamist. [ more › ]
by Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper The fight over proposed high-rise development Monitor Point ramped up last week as the project finally came before the City Council. After scoring a long-term lease of an MTA-owned plot of land at 40 Quay Street in 2021, waterfront property in Greenpoint adjacent
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NBA great Walt Frazier in 1973. Cheap rent, cheap subways, the birth of hip-hop and the opening of the World Trade Center. [ more › ]
A person, at right, is greeted after being released from detention at Delaney Hall, which is being used as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a detention center for immigrants, in Newark, New Jersey, on May 30, 2026. More than 10,000 people have been detained at the facility. Most have no cri
You get home, flick your lights on, run your air conditioner, charge your phone. As of this month, there’s a chance the electricity you’re using is generated from dams in Quebec, Canada, and arrived at your apartment via a line that snakes more than 330 miles long. A massive transmission line called
Eight years after New York State launched a high-profile task force to confront maternal deaths and racial disparities in childbirth outcomes, state auditors say health officials are only now making “significant” progress implementing reforms — even as Black women continue dying at disproportionatel
Bed Stuy residents are planning to pack a Brooklyn courtroom Wednesday in a fight over the future of a large parking lot behind the landmarked Girls High School on Nostrand Avenue. Locals will face the city in court for a second time in the case, in which they are asking Kings… Read More >
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Applications opened Tuesday for the inaugural year of New York City’s free childcare program for 2-year-olds. Part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordability campaign for free universal childcare, 2-
A member of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stands guard as police investigate a shooting at Taste of the City lounge on August 17, 2025 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Timothy Spence pleaded guilty to federal assault and firearm charges. [ more
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