Council secured funding in FY27 Budget to provide nearly 60,000 free swim lessons for an additional 3,000 second graders THE BRONX, NY – Today, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Council Members, and Asphalt…
La ciudad de Nueva York está ampliando sus canales de comunicación con los residentes hispanohablantes a través del lanzamiento del “Chisme Oficial de NYC”, según anunció esta semana el alcalde Zohran Mamdani.
After a nearly four-month stall, plans to demolish and rebuild 2,000 public housing apartments in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood are back on again.
Por ejemplo, el 33 por ciento cree que ser hispano perjudica su capacidad de progresar, mientras que el 26 por ciento piensa que la favorece.
... Or how I learned to stop worrying and love what Europe does with active transportation.
Regular people want faster safety improvements and outdoor dining approvals, but pols appear to want to retain their power.
Parking for the NYPD but not for thee. Plus other news.
Mayor Mamdani has undone so much of the damage Eric Adams did to street safety — but in Hasidic Williamsburg, he pauses.
New York State’s Department of Housing and Community Renewal last opened its Project-Based Section 8 waitlist in 2021.
The New York City Bar Association Monday urged the U.S.
At a Coney Island go-kart track on Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a City Hall “pit crew” intended to keep government technology from sputtering in the slow lane.
A controversial plan to tear down and rebuild all 2,056 apartment units in NYCHA’s Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses can move forward, an appeals court ruled last week.
This week: N.Y.C. Open Primaries Supported by Adams Charter Commission; Unite NY Submits Open Primaries Question for 2027 N.Y.C.
Red Tape Relief Act would create new interagency inspection coordination program modeled after New Business Acceleration Team and new bill would establish commission to review and issue recommendations on regulations,…
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
The city’s latest housing vs. parking battle is playing out at an East Village Mitchell-Lama co-op, where the board is considering the sale to raise money for their 60-year-old buildings.
U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler recycled his recent Streetsblog op-ed about Penn Station for a piece in the Gray Lady.
We get it, cars and trucks are awful. But if we are going to have them, they need to be electric.
After allegedly being fired from her unpaid position as a New York City Council intern for labor organizing that aimed to push the legislative body to pay her and her colleagues for their work, Mina Farahmand is now…
New Yorkers who sign up for gym memberships, streaming services, and other recurring subscriptions must soon be allowed by law to cancel them just as easily — and through the same method they used to enroll — under a…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday that the City will add Little Italy to a public-facing map of immigrant enclaves after Italian American leaders blasted its omission from a World Cup tourism program as an insult to one…
Activists want more Summer Streets, but the city obliges with the same old, could-be-better program.
"Every New Yorker deserves to know what their city is doing for them in the language they speak at home," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a press conference announcing the launch of "El Chisme Oficial de NYC."
The MTA moved the Q23 onto Queens Boulevard to avoid traffic on Austin Street.
A growing group of activists are posting their street-cleaning escapades to social media, but parked cars that don't move for street cleaning are getting in their way.
Another update on the Red Hook Pool. Plus other news.
City Council Speaker Julie Menin is escalating a transparency fight with the Department of Education, accusing the agency of months of “opacity, slow-walking, and delay” after it failed to turn over hundreds of…
Nearly one-third of city agencies surveyed by New York City’s corruption watchdog reported having no staff performing internal audit functions, while half lacked internal audit plans, according to a Department of…
Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending New York's LGBTQ-inclusive policies after Nassau County executive and gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman cast blame on the governor and sided with a Westchester-based Catholic nursing…
“New York City deserves parks that are cared for by skilled Parks workers whose expertise and labor cannot be replaced by volunteers.” The City’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget fails to meet advocates’ call for 1 percent of…