Wait, How Much? Manhattan and Brooklyn Rents Hit Record Highs
Mayor Zohran Mamdani may have capped rents for tenants in stabilized apartments, but for the rest of the city, the cost of renting just keeps going up.
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New Council Push to Save Traditional Medicare for Retirees
A leading organization representing retired New York City civil servants living across the country is reviving a push that would block any future effort to shift the city’s 250,000 retirees and their dependents to a…
New York Loses Millions in Sex Ed Money After Uptick in Teen Pregnancies
The Trump administration has canceled teen pregnancy prevention grants for three New York organizations as it shifts to boosting an abstinence-based approach to sex ed.
The E-Moto Effect: To Make Roads Safer, We Need To ‘Reverse-Engineer’ Micromobility Regulations
The Council has 17 bills! Anti-bike NIMBYs want more restrictions!
Exclusive Excerpt: ‘Gridlock’ Sam’s Autonomous Car Thriller, ‘Autokill’
The year is 2036. Autonomous Vehicles are everywhere.
Thursday’s Headlines: The Busway Is The Right Way Edition
The mayor keeps making good on his "faster" buses promise.
Grace Court Two-Bedroom With Dining Room Asks $1.2 Million
The maintenance is high but this estate-condition two-bedroom has charming original 1920s features, an interesting history, and "oblique river views," as the listing puts it.
Legal scholars and tax experts question effectiveness, strength of suit against NYC pied-à-terre tax
The suit seeking to tie up the city’s pied-à-terre tax in the courts is “weak” and likely to be ineffective in accomplishing any significant delay in the tax’s rollout, legal experts and economists told amNewYork Law.
Opinion: New York’s Home Care Program Has Brought My Daughter & I Closer
"Without a program like CDPAP, my only options would be a nursing home or a costly institutional care setting, neither of which reflects how I want to live and neither of which would be affordable for long."
NYC Council launching investigation, considers laws it can pass regulating how prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi and others advertise in city
While the New York City Council cannot pass laws preventing prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi from operating in the city, the legislative body announced Wednesday that it was launching an investigation into…
Mamdani’s first NYC budget gets cheers for bookkeeping, jeers for big budget gaps, from state oversight board
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first appearance before the state Financial Control Board brought praise Wednesday for making New York City’s budget more transparent, but also repeated warnings that the city still faces a…
McCarren, a Pool and Park for the People in North Brooklyn
Landscape architects and engineers joined social reformers in the mid 19th century to advocate for parks and green space in American cities.
Some New York Latinos Are Finding Out The Hard Way That They’ve Lost Health Insurance
According to state officials, almost 200,000 New Yorkers have been impacted by federal cuts to the Essential Plan that made certain low-income working residents ineligible.
132 NYSLRS Retirees Receive Pensions Over $200K in FY2026
A total of 132 retirees from the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) were eligible to collect $200,000....
East New York Affordable Housing Lottery Has $1,358 Studios
An affordable housing lottery for 14 studio apartments in an under-construction affordable building on East New York’s Pitkin Avenue is closing next week.
Daily Links: Busways, Parking Rules Among Ideas at Town Hall on Faster Buses
In the News They Accused a Borough Park Doctor of Abuse [NYT] Bushwick Renter Makes Viral Videos on Alleged Roommate From Hell [NYP] Nonprofit Senior Health Insurance Company Opens Sunset Park Office [BP] STooPSArt &…
Op-ed | Stop using retirees as New York City’s financial backstop
Every time New York City faces a financial challenge, the same people seem to end up paying the price: retired public servants.
New York City Council Announces Investigation of Deceptive and Predatory Marketing Practices by Prediction Market Platforms
Investigation and planned hearing are aimed at determining need to strengthen consumer protections, safeguard minors, and address risks of marketing to those with addictive tendencies Speaker Julie Menin sent letters to…
BYO Hot Sauce: NYC Senior Centers Struggle With Attendance on Required Plant-Based Meal Days
Every Tuesday, the Encore Aging Through Arts Center in Midtown bustles with activity and laughter as seniors sit at round tables, pen and paper in hand, playing bingo.
‘I Know About Tariffs’: Small Biz Struggles With High Costs, Trump Chaos
Nearly six months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a raft of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, few New York City small businesses have benefited from tariff refunds, even as they struggle under new import levies.
‘Crashland’ No More: Mamdani Admin. To Complete Ashland Place Bike Lane Scuttled by Adams
One more remnant of Eric Adams-era corruption meets its end.
Watchdog: Corporate Polluters Are Using Loophole to Avoid City Idling Fines
A new report calls on the city to crack down on companies who endlessly reschedule trial hearings to avoid anti-idling fines.
Deep Dive: Cheaper Citi Bike Will Need More Than Public Subsidy
Advocates are demanding that the city do more to rein in Citi Bike's soaring costs by subsidizing the wildly popular bike share system, but it will take more than public money.
Wednesday’s Headlines: A Ferry Fast Race Edition
Meet the trio that went full boat to set a new record.
Staten Island judge overseeing Mamdani pied-à-terre case appears on disputed property roll himself
The Staten Island judge who issued a temporary order blocking parts of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout appears on the sprawling property roll at the center of the lawsuit himself, an amNewYork review of…
Nearly a Third of NYC’s Trash Gets Incinerated Elsewhere. What Would It Take to Stop The Practice?
Philadelphia's City Council is debating a bill that would ban the City of Brotherly Love from exporting its trash for incineration, citing pollution and impact on human health.
NYC Misses Legal Deadlines in Most Special-Education Cases, Auditors Find
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.
NY Elections, Census and Redistricting Update 08/10/26
This week: Onondaga County Term Limits Goes to Court; MEC Offers Census Bureau Redistricting Data Training; Controversial Election Proposals Facing Albany in 2027; Security Cameras at the Polls?; Onondaga County Term…
Rite Aid-Replacing Tower Coming to Corner of Smith and President?
A big change is coming to the corner of Smith and President streets in Carroll Gardens, right across from Carroll Park and at the F train stop.
Brooklynites Flock to ThriftCon at Brooklyn Navy Yard for All Things Vintage
by Logan Holland, amNY Stumbling upon a Carhartt Detroit jacket is like finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.