NYC’s COVID risk rises, mask mandates yet to return to K-12 schools
With New York City moving into a higher risk category for the spread of COVID, the city’s health department is...
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Applications filled up for NYC Summer Rising program
Just one week after New York City opened up applications for Summer Rising, its ambitious program that melds academics and...
State lawmakers narrowly approve bill to allow indicted Lt. Gov. Benjamin to be removed from ballot
After striking a deal late last week on a bill to remove Brian Benjamin’s name from the ballot, lawmakers in...
New lawsuit seeks reinstatement of NY congressional maps
Democratic officials are making a last-minute appeal to the federal courts after the top state court in New York rejected...
Leaked draft opinion from Supreme Court indicates Roe v. Wade will be overturned
New York Democrats reacted with anger and resolve after a leaked draft opinion obtained by Politico revealed the United States...
Man fatally shot behind wheel of Mercedes on Upper West Side
A father visiting the city from Virginia was fatally shot behind the wheel of a Mercedes on the Upper West...
Manhattan DA moves to clear sex trafficking victims’ criminal records
When a 25-year-old sex trafficking victim defended herself against a buyer who tried to rape her during a violent 2013...
13-year-old Louisiana girl killed by stray bullet
A teenage girl sitting inside a Shreveport, La., home Sunday afternoon was fatally shot by a stray bullet from one...
Mayor Adams trades jokes with city press corps at annual Inner Circle charity show
Mayor Eric Adams threw personal punches at members of the media Saturday night during what’s historically supposed to be a...
Thousands take to streets for NYC’s 44th Five Boro Bike Tour
The Five Boro Tour has returned with thousands taking to New York City streets for a 40-mile trip through all...
May Day protesters demand more job protections in NYC
Hundreds of immigrant workers and elected officials rallied on Sunday to demand a path to citizenship and worker protections. “New...
Man chokes, rapes woman inside Brooklyn apartment
Police are hunting for a man they say choked a woman unconscious before raping her inside of an apartment in...
Robbers hold up three Manhattan stores at gunpoint
The NYPD is asking for the public's help identifying a pair of armed robbers who allegedly held up three different...
NY school knife fight leaves 3 injured
Three people were reportedly injured after a knife fight outside of Spring Valley High School in Rockland County on Friday...
Mayor Adams praises precinct commanders at face-to-face meeting
Mayor Eric Adams met with the city’s NYPD precinct commanders Saturday afternoon inside police headquarters. According to people in the...
2 on Subway tracks killed by train at Manhattan Station
Vita Edwards can often be found at the 145th Street station along the 1 line. She is homeless. It’s the...
Senate Democrats add bill to remove indicted former lieutenant governor from ballot
State legislators are poised to pass legislation as early as next week that would allow candidates indicted, charged, or arrested...
NYC judge declines to overturn Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction
A judge on Friday declined to overturn former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction for aiding in Jeffrey Epstein’s...
Bronx teacher arrested for throttling 12-year-old student
A Bronx gym teacher was arrested Thursday for throttling a middle-schooler, cops said. Chester Hingle, 45, was in the cafeteria...
Fewer NYC students have been suspended this year, reports say
As New York City required all students to return to school buildings in September for the first time since the...
Starbucks workers in the New York City area seek to unionize
Workers at a Starbucks in the East Village have voted to unionize, making the outpost the chain’s second New York...
Judge moves New York congressional, State Senate primaries to Aug. 23
The court has spoken. And now New Yorkers will be asked to go to the polls in the middle of...
Funding formula rejection: What it means for NYC schools
City’s Panel For Educational Policy, a mostly appointed board that makes decisions on major contracts and policies, rejected an annual...
Medicare Advantage plan: NYC retirees could be denied ‘medically necessary care’
The federal study, conducted by the inspector general’s office for the Department of Health and Human Services, reviewed thousands of...
Mayor Adams mourns fallen firefighter Timothy Klein at Brooklyn funeral home
The second-generation firefighter was killed Sunday when a ceiling collapsed during a three-alarm blaze in Canarsie, hitting Klein, 31, and...
Shelter in Chinatown is canceled after community protests
The city has canceled plans to open a homeless shelter at 47 Madison Street in Chinatown, according to a statement...
After employers complain, NYC to push back law requiring pay transparency
Go to any job website, and you may be looking for one thing: How much you’re going to get paid....
In surprising setback to Mayor Adams, city’s panel for education policy rejects school funding formula
On Wednesday night, the city’s Panel for Educational Policy voted against the routine approval of New York City’s school funding...
NYS math tests fall during fasting period, upsetting Muslim families
This year’s Ramadan overlapped with the state math tests administered to New York’s third- through eighth-graders from April 26-28, upsetting...
City schools to provide 4 at-home COVID tests to students each week
According to an education department letter sent to families on Wednesday, City schools are now providing four at-home COVID testing...
NYC’s nurses provides solution to reckon with shortage
It’s a problem throughout the country and it’s no different in New York City: there aren't enough nurses. It's a...
NYPD union hits Mayor Adams for remark about cops using their phones
Two of the city’s police unions took umbrage with Mayor Eric Adams Wednesday after he said he was “disappointed” in...
Democrats lose control of N.Y. election maps, as top court rejects appeal
New York's top court on Wednesday rejected the congressional and state Senate maps drawn by the Democratic-led Legislature earlier this...
Adams proposes more summer programming for students in NYC education budget plan
The de Blasio administration had planned to spend $3.1 billion in stimulus funding this fiscal year, but just half of...
Prostitute who fatally drugged four men, including Cipriani chef, gets 30 years
On Tuesday, a Queens prostitute who fatally drugged several of her sex clients, including a Cipriani chef, in a twisted...
New education panel member yet to be appointed after resignation of former minister for anti-gay views
Last month, Adams named a slate of nine appointees — the total number allocated to the mayor on the 15-person...
Effective and equitable ideas to crack down on fare evasion convened by MTA
The MTA has put together a panel that will come up with “effective and equitable” ways to crack down on...
Mayor Adams releases executive budget for fiscal year 2023
Mayor Eric Adams has outlined his latest version of the city’s next budget, revising from a preliminary spending plan released...
Gov. Hochul pushing N.Y. Legislature to approve bill removing indicted ex-LG Benjamin from ballot
Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing state lawmakers to change the state's election law and allow candidates on the ballot to...
Choking fifth grader at Orange County elementary school saved by former NYPD officer
Ten-year-old Ariana Miranda is grateful for surviving a scary situation. A former NYPD officer saved the day at an Orange...
Harlem teacher shares her love of literature, how she promotes diverse authors
Fatuma Hydara grew up in the Bronx as the eldest daughter in a Muslim family of West African immigrants. Though...
Police begins search for suspect in Queens shooting
Police are looking for the gunman who shot and killed Marcus Bethea, 24-year-old from Brooklyn, on Monday afternoon inside the...
NYers approve of change to bail law, but wonder if it will help deter crime, according to Siena Poll
A new poll is giving Gov. Kathy Hochul plenty to worry about. She currently has the lowest lowest job performance...
Elon Musk to acquire, privatize Twitter, company announces
Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday, promising a more lenient touch to...
‘Young Sheldon’ happy for 13-year-old boy set to graduate from college
"Young Sheldon” star Iain Armitage has a real-life counterpart — Elliott Tanner, a Minnesota 13-year-old who is about to graduate...
Young FDNY firefighter killed in Brooklyn inferno
Six-year veteran firefighter Timothy Klein, 31, died while trying to knock down the blaze at a Brooklyn home on Avenue...
Yale law school professor denied valedictorian title finally receives the honor nearly four decades later
Tracey Meares would have become the first Black valedictorian at Springfield High School in 1984, but instead had to split...
Mayor Adams puts nearly $1 billion into street safety
A new report from the transit advocacy group Transportation Alternatives documented the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2014 over...
Antony Blinken, US Defence Chief meet Ukraine’s Zelenskyy; announce aid, diplomatic push
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to...
Adams promises record $171M in NYC budget to expand services for homeless
The city will allocate an additional $171 million a year to combat homelessness beginning in October, Mayor Eric Adams announced...
Ads contradictory to science on climate change banned by Twitter
Twitter has made a move to ban adverts which are deemed contradictory to science on the issue of climate change....
Passionate hockey coordinator works to increase diversity and inclusion in the sport
As the diversity and inclusion coordinator for the New York State Amateur Hockey Association, Williamson connects local charities with funding...
Open-air night market to return in Queens
Located at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the Night Market is set to open to...
Innocent woman killed in car among 13 non-subway shootings in NYC
For hours Friday, people filed into a funeral home in the Bronx to honor a woman killed by a stray...
NYC Mayor to focus on buildings emissions
At the Fairview co-op in Forest Hills, Queens, there’s a focus on the future as the climate crisis grows. “What...
NYC organizations increasing diversity in hockey
Caleb Williamson did not know what hockey was until he watched “The Mighty Ducks" as a child. “I saw the...
Mom, grandmother charged with murder after girl dies from being forced to drink whiskey
Louisiana Police reported a case of a woman who wanted to teach her 4-year-old granddaughter a lesson about drinking and...
Eighteen-year-old gunman charged with attempted murder, others
Jordan Stennett, 18, was charged with attempted murder, reckless endangerment and gun possession, police said. The gunman who fired back...
Person of interest found dead, 4 people wounded in shooting near Washington, D.C., school
Raymond Spencer, 23, was named as a person of interest by police. He was found dead about six hours after...
Dozens of NYC DOE employees on unpaid leave for alleged fake COVID vaccine cards
The city’s Department of Education placed a number of employees on unpaid leave after finding that they submitted fake COVID-19...