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NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD...
Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to nominate Alexander Dockery, whose sentence she commuted in 2023, to New York's Commission of...
The New York State Assembly passed a bill to freeze ground rent increases for lower and middle income Battery Park...
New York City offers free legal help, navigators and courses for small businesses. Most owners never learn they exist until...
NYC Parks and Council Member Restler cut a ribbon on Bushwick Inlet Park's $9.8 million Motiva section, a restored tidal...
Grace Meng's May 19 telephone town hall in NY-6 drew criticism from constituents who say their questions on ICE, Gaza,...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso debated on NY1 for NY's 7th Congressional seat, drawing on a decade of progressive wins...
Nearly 1,400 Jewish New Yorkers, including 76 spiritual leaders, sent an open letter demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani take concrete action...
On the NY1 debate stage, Democratic socialist Assemblywoman Claire Valdez reversed her pledge to reject superPAC money, saying her campaign...
Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board. He controls 4 of its 17 votes.
Five historic tall ships from four countries dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park July 5–7 as New York Harbor hosts the...
Thirty House Democrats sent Postmaster General David Steiner a letter demanding answers on a USPS rule that could condition mail-in...
QNS's Ridgewood Pride guide maps a queer scene that runs through a black-metal record shop, a pierogi spot, and a...
The city pitches the Atlantic Avenue plan as 100 percent affordable. Sixteen Bed-Stuy neighbors say it skipped the review every...
NYC DOT is scaling up privacy-protective street sensors to 100 intersections, out of 6,000 miles of streets, for about $300,000....
Cameras keep catching small groups descending into New York's sewers around 2 a.m. No one can say who they are...
Under the K Bridge Park turned the Kosciuszko Bridge base into a top concert venue. It is a public park...
New York spent years banning gerrymandering in its constitution. Now Democrats want to erase those rules.
A Brooklyn campaign wants cars out of McCarren Park for good. The rally was the easy part.
Con Edison wants credit for a record $3.9 billion grid upgrade in North Brooklyn. You are paying for it through...
Community Board 1 will hear the Brooklyn Public Library's progress report on rebuilding the Leonard branch in Williamsburg to be...
The state says its school phone ban is working. The evidence is a survey of the people who enforce it.
In June 2026, incumbent Adriano Espaillat faces two progressive challengers—Darializa Avila Chevalier and Oscar Romero—in the NY-13 Democratic primary.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez brought a $1 million check for security lighting to Cooper Park Houses. Residents say the deeper repair...
The State Liquor Authority gave the old Brooklyn Mirage address a new license as Pacha, stapled to conditions that read...
GrowNYC's Greenmarket network is 50. Behind the heirloom-tomato nostalgia, the real story is money: SNAP, EBT, and who can afford...
Gladys Books & Wine keeps flooding. Owner Tiffany Dockery's fundraiser is also a war chest to make her Malcolm X...
The NYPD whistleblower who sued over arrest quotas now runs the city's eviction and seizure force.
A feminist group show on Cypress Avenue is concrete proof Ridgewood's art scene, long treated as Bushwick's overflow, has become...
The tax aimed at billionaires barely dents Ken Griffin. It could put a lien on your co-op.
Two commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead.
Mayor Mamdani's first city budget opened with a property-tax hike and a reserve raid. It balances only because Albany stepped...
The city broke ground on a Greenpoint street redesign prosecutors say a powerful film-studio family paid to stall. Now it...
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his 'Block by Block' housing plan at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, pledging 200,000 affordable homes...
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is announcing a plan to address the digital divide and expand affordable internet access citywide,...
The NYC Department of Small Business Services hosted its third-annual Small Business Month Expo at 60 Pine Street, with over...
Antonio Reynoso and Claire Valdez lead the Democratic primary race to succeed retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez in NY-7, covering Bushwick...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order reaffirming NYC's sanctuary protections and launched a Know Your Rights campaign as ICE...
New York cut the fifth firefighter from most engines in 2011. With fire deaths nearly doubled, the Council wants $92...
Mayor Mamdani's first housing move wasn't his big plan. He moved against a 5,000-unit landlord within hours of taking office,...
The fight was supposed to be about Mamdani skipping the parade. An uninvited minister changed the subject.
Fifty-five north Brooklyn businesses asked the MTA to spare their summer weekends. The chairman said no.
2026's first subway-surfing death, and the MTA says the real problem is a video that won't come down.
Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso rolled out a six-page Puerto Rico platform in his run for Congress. He is Dominican, not...
ICE pulled a handcuffed man from the ER at Wyckoff Heights in Bushwick. The lawmaker who represents the hospital and...
The Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It just changed New York's redistricting fight.
Bushwick ranks as NYC's best neighborhood for homebuyers in 2026 with a $999,000 median asking price down 16.3% and inventory...
New York's class-size law required 6,000 new teachers. The city is meeting it with exemptions, a delay, and a budget...
New York mandated how every school teaches reading and math, then claimed a test-score win experts say it can't yet...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso committed $20,000 to rescue the Coney Island Mermaid Parade while rolling out a Puerto Rico...