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Mayor Adams has made the war on rats one of the signature policies of his administration. Inspectors found no evidence of vermin at the...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives on the scene of a parking garage collapse on Ann Street in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, April 18, 2023...

Hochul rallies for a budget deal in Albany. Here are the basics on this year’s state budget agreement. [ more › ]

The Queens home where police say an unlicensed man performed a botched surgical procedure that left a woman in critical condition. Felip...

The MTA and Gov. Kathy Hochul have pushed to beef up the number of cops and surveillance cameras in the subway system since 2021. The tr...

New York repealed an older anti-mask law during the COVID pandemic. The deal between Hochul and the Legislature’s Democratic majorities...

John A. Sarcone III was sworn in as an interim U.S. attorney on March 17. A recently appointed interim U.S. attorney said he wants to su...

Because he appreciates the culture, here are your afternoon links: Zooey Deschanel is engaged to a Property Brother, license plate crackdown...

The MTA plans to replace turnstiles at city subway stations with modern fare gates equipped with sliding glass doors. Transit officials...

Evidence markers are seen on the street at Malcolm X Boulevard and West 113rd Street on April 23, 2025. Excenia Mette was fatally shot a...

A scene from a previous year's Open Stages Music Festival. Ready to enjoy what the city has to offer outside? Tulips, block parties, par...

Because it never went away, but whatever, here are your early links: 5G towers on the Upper West Side, Rep. Mike Lawler got yelled at during...

From left: Cliff Hagen, Griffin Fossella, and Frank Morano are competing for Staten Island’s open City Council seat in Tuesday’s special ele...

A train passes through the Whitehall–South Ferry subway station in Manhattan on Dec. 3, 2019. The NYPD says it's arrested a 44-year-old...

Councilmember Sandy Nurse speaks outside City Hall criticizing the city's use of homeless encampment clean-ups on Tuesday April 22, 2025....

Mayor Adams announced the next step in the rollout of math curricula last week. "We’re not used to this math,” the schools chancellor sa...

The East River Tunnel, shown above, will undergo major repairs starting Monday, affecting Amtrak service between New York City and Albany....

Gun violence has trended downward even as the NYPD has been plagued by scandal under Adams. [ more › ]

Tommy Dorfman in New York Theatre Workshop's "Becoming Eve." “Becoming Eve” is on now at the Abrons Arts Center. [ more › ]

Three railroads come and go from Penn Station, which is below Madison Square Garden. A look at Amtrak’s recent history shows its own wat...

An aerial photo of the Davis Center, which boasts a swimming pool that can become an ice rink or a public greenspace, depending on the seaso...

Pope Francis shaking the hand of a police officer at the 9/11 memorial in 2015. Fr. James Martin, SJ, joined All things Considered to di...

Gov. Kathy Hochul, pictured earlier this year, said she'd consider renaming Penn Station for Trump. Money can't buy you love, but it can...

The NYC Tape Fair is Sunday, April 27. “When I sit down with a tape in my Walkman, I can’t skip, fast-forwarding is a hassle, I’m just s...

The NYC Runs Brooklyn Experience Half-Marathon is expected to draw about 25,000 runners to the borough's roads. The NYCRuns route runs M...