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FARE Act drew more than 2,000 complaints in its first year, city data shows
New York City's FARE Act drew more than 2,000 complaints in its first year, with DCWP issuing 74 summonses and...
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A rider choked her, ripped out her hair, and screamed “Jews are eating kids.” Rabbi says Mamdani never said a word.
Rabbi Ingber of Romemu condemns Mayor Zohran Mamdani for not publicly addressing a violent antisemitic attack on a Jewish woman...
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Mamdani ran 2K with 1,000 New Yorkers. The real prize: free full-day child care for 2,000 toddlers
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani joined 1,000 runners at Fort Tryon Park for the 2K for 2-K event, launching NYC’s first...
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NYC public school budgets held steady for 2026-2027, Mamdani says
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration said NYC public school budgets will not be cut for 2026-2027, keeping funding steady as enrollment...
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Whole Foods is coming to Bushwick.
Amazon-owned grocer signs lease at 1224 Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, bringing full-service grocery to neighborhood flagged by NYC as underserved...
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American youth soccer runs on pay-to-play. As the World Cup arrives, New York is spending $6 million on fields for the kids it shuts out.
Governor Kathy Hochul announced NY Kicks, a $6 million fund to build community soccer fields and support free programs as...
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The Brooklyn-to-Queens train that skips Manhattan is finally moving. The live question is whether it tunnels under Metropolitan Avenue.
The MTA's $5.5 billion Interborough Express light rail from Bay Ridge to Jackson Heights is prioritizing tunneling beneath Metropolitan Avenue...
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Seven people keep climbing out of Brooklyn manholes at night. Police suspect treasure hunters. The veteran sewer explorer says there’s no treasure.
Security cameras captured groups climbing out of NYC sewers in Brooklyn and Queens, sparking police investigation. Experts doubt treasure hunting...
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A judge said the allegations against ICE in a Bushwick man’s arrest ‘appear to be egregious.’ He’s still detained, and now he’s suing.
A Bushwick man remains detained after an immigration judge called ICE conduct allegations 'egregious' but declined to dismiss his deportation...
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East Williamsburg, a Brooklyn industrial zone, just won $20 million to build a ‘downtown.’ To get the money, it had to promise more housing.
East Williamsburg won $20 million from New York State's Downtown Revitalization Initiative, with strings attached requiring new housing development in...
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One of the city’s last community darkrooms has until June 30 to survive. The only offer was $5,000 in installments.
The Bushwick Community Darkroom, one of NYC's last hands-on film developing spaces, faces closure by June 30 unless it secures...
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The city is selling 222 Knickerbocker Avenue signs at $100 each to ride the Knicks. The real one runs through Bushwick.
The city dropped 222 Knickerbocker Avenue street signs at $100 each to capitalize on Knicks Finals hype, but the real...
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Mamdani is pouring himself into a Greenpoint congressional race, and the left is split down the middle over it
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will headline a rally for congressional candidate Claire Valdez in Greenpoint on June 7, organized by NYC-DSA...
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Williamsburg’s new affordable housing lottery opens, you can qualify earning up to $238,160
A housing lottery is now open for 80 Ainslie Street in Williamsburg, offering five units for households earning up to...
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East Williamsburg won $20 million to build a downtown it doesn’t have, and to get it New York City had to prove it’s still cramming in more housing
East Williamsburg won a $20 million New York State Downtown Revitalization grant to develop a commercial pedestrian center, with housing...
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She vowed to abolish ICE and reject AI money. The Post says she took both.
Assemblywoman Claire Valdez accepted donations from AI investors and ICE vendors despite public pledges to reject such money, per a...
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State legislature passes bill to lock in two-person subway crews
New York lawmakers passed a bill protecting roughly 3,600 subway conductors by requiring two-person crews, which now heads to Gov....
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Federal judge strikes down Trump policies that froze asylum and immigration applications from 39 countries
A federal judge ruled Trump policies halting asylum, work permit, and green card cases for applicants from 39 countries unlawful,...
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New York bars civil restraining orders against a stalker who isn’t your ex. A bill on Hochul’s desk would change that.
NY's CREEP Act expanding anti-stalking protections to online victims and coworkers has passed the legislature June 5 and awaits Gov....
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Turkey’s Nest, the 45-year cash-only Bedford Avenue dive, just filed for a city outdoor-dining permit
Brooklyn Community Board 1 reviewed Turkey's Nest Inc.'s application for a DOT Dining Out NYC outdoor dining permit at its...
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The lawyer who prosecuted Trump for fraud just got a judgeship from Hochul
Governor Kathy Hochul appointed Andrew Amer, who led the 2023 civil fraud prosecution of Donald Trump, to the New York...
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Bed-Stuy was 75% Black in 2000 and 40% in 2023, this candidate has a plan to keep the businesses
NY Assembly candidate Michael Bailey unveiled a three-part plan to preserve Black and immigrant-owned small businesses in Bed-Stuy ahead of...
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A court just blocked Trump from tying New York’s $9.7 billion in food money to a gender-ideology pledge
NY AG Letitia James secured a federal injunction blocking Trump conditions on USDA grants, shielding $9.7 billion in annual New...
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IBX would run trains every 5 minutes, 24/7, past Ridgewood homes: ‘I only care about the noise’
Residents near the proposed Inter-Borough Express rail line in Ridgewood express concerns over 24/7 noise, while others support the $3B...
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Bushwick’s Velázquez torches Blakeman, who ‘lost running for every office under the sun,’ as Hochul hits his vaccine stance
Governor Hochul's campaign targeted Bruce Blakeman on vaccines as Bushwick Rep. Velázquez added pressure, while Hochul touted childcare and policy...
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Tribeca native Morris Katz leads Mamdani’s mayoral media strategy
Morris Katz, 26, a Tribeca native living in Williamsburg, led media strategy for Zohran Mamdani, who became the youngest New...
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You get three minutes to help rewire NYC government at Mamdani’s charter commission, and the next two hearings are this week
New Yorkers can testify on proposed NYC City Charter revisions through June 23, with Queens and Staten Island hearings remaining...
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Advocates urge Mamdani administration to fund 2023 CityFHEPS voucher expansion
NYC housing advocates and council members rallied June 5 to demand Mayor Mamdani fund the 2023 CityFHEPS voucher expansion still...
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A 3-year-old died of a dairy allergy at his NY daycare, now a bill would finally make centers stock epinephrine
A bipartisan New York bill requiring all childcare centers to stock epinephrine and train staff in allergy response now heads...
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The city’s own number-crunchers just put a $1.1 billion price tag on free NYC buses, $400 million above what anyone was saying out loud
NYC's Independent Budget Office estimates making all city buses free could cost $1.1 billion annually, well above prior projections of...
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A rent freeze is officially on the table, and Mamdani picked the board that decides on June 25
Tenants and landlords testified at the NYC Rent Guidelines Board's first Queens hearing on June 4, debating a potential freeze...
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Reynoso, Valdez and Won show few policy differences in NY1 congressional debate
Antonio Reynoso, Claire Valdez, and Julie Won debated on NY1 for the 7th Congressional District, agreeing on most policy but...
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Thieves are draining food stamps off Brooklyn families, the reimbursement program is dead, and the cards that let them won’t be replaced until 2027
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is demanding a new SNAP Fraud Office and chip-enabled EBT cards to halt widespread skimming...
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A Bushwick block shuts down both weekends to raise a crane for a six-soundstage film studio, twice the size of Netflix’s
Siegel Street in Bushwick will close to through traffic Saturdays and Sundays, June 6–14, from 3 a.m. to 11 p.m....
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Rikers must legally close by 2027, but its replacement jails aren’t done until the 2030s
NYC Council members and advocates are calling on Mayor Mamdani to budget $87M for diversion and reentry programs to meet...
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For years, going to jail erased your spot in line for NYC housing. A new law just stopped that.
Local Law 132, effective March 2026, requires NYC to count jail and prison time toward supportive housing eligibility for formerly...
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Reynoso says Mamdani shouldn’t meet Trump. Mamdani says that meeting got a detained Columbia student out of ICE custody
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly clashed over the mayor's Trump White House visits at a...
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NY-7 candidates clash on Gaza and super PAC money in first televised debate
City Council Member Julie Won, Assemblymember Claire Valdez, and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso clashed over Gaza and super PAC...
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New York just voted to freeze new AI data centers for a year. Hochul says it should be left to your town instead
New York's state legislature is approaching a vote on the Responsible Data Center Development Act, a one-year moratorium on data...
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Reynoso put all $45 million of his first-year capital budget into maternal care, citing Black women’s 8x higher death rate
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is running in the June 23 NY-7 Democratic primary on housing, ICE abolition, and a...
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Sen. Brisport honors queer activists and condemns anti-LGBTQIA+ oppression in Pride Month floor speech
Brooklyn State Senator Jabari Brisport delivered a Pride Month speech on the NY Senate floor, honoring queer history and condemning...
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NYC teachers demand DOE safety protocols after alleged ICE sightings near schools
NYC teachers and parents rallied in Lower Manhattan on June 4, demanding the DOE create protocols for ICE encounters after...
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Her DACA renewal is 143 days late. She lost her job, her permit, and her legal shield from deportation
Eva Santos Veloz lost her job and legal protection after her DACA renewal stalled for 143 days, highlighting systemic delays...
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Heastie says he’s a yes on the plastics bill, the votes are there, and for a third year he killed it without a vote
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is blocking a floor vote on the plastics bill for the third year and pushing...
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The teachers union didn’t want this delay, but it’s taking it anyway: “We did not want an extension – we want compliance”
The United Federation of Teachers reluctantly accepts a two-year extension of NYC's class size mandate, citing the need for more...
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Queens lawmaker backs bill to close New York’s ‘champerty loophole’ used by vulture funds
A Queens lawmaker and a Brooklyn housing organizer are backing a New York bill to close the champerty loophole that...
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NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month in Bed-Stuy, run by a brand-new community-safety office of about five people with no deal with the NYPD yet
NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD...
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Hispanic Federation says 88 percent of the Latino voters it registered turned out in 2020
The Hispanic Federation says 88 percent of its registered Latino voters cast ballots in the 2020 election, 22 percentage points...
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An oil refiner’s old Bushwick Inlet parcel is finally a public beach with a kayak launch, 21 years after the city promised the park
NYC Parks opened the Motiva parcel at Bushwick Inlet Park on June 3, adding tidal wetlands, a sandy beach, and...
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50,000 marched in the Israel Day Parade and brought cardboard cutouts of the mayor who skipped it
More than 50,000 people marched in NYC's Israel Day Parade on June 1, as Mayor Mamdani boycotted and a Muslim...