Construction has begun at 299 DeGraw Street, where a two-story former firehouse is being converted into a music school for the Noel Pointer Foundation in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
It’s become a ritual for many New York City teachers: Head to a 35,000-square-foot warehouse on Northern Boulevard in Queens, take the elevator to the third floor, grab a shopping cart and don’t leave until it’s filled…
For more than two decades, the former Engine Company 204 firehouse at 299 DeGraw Street in Cobble Hill has stood empty.
Unlike most other places in the nation, New York City families have to apply for schools at every level of their education, starting in kindergarten.
One school on Clarkson Streets has safe, easy-to-use gates.
“Some of the reports indicate that there have been almost 2,000 instances in New York City, where school staff have engaged in sexual misconduct with students,” Assistant Secretary Kimberly Richey said.
New renderings have been revealed for the $60 million education campus slated for construction at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
New York City Ferry riders will soon have to cough up an additional 50 cents per ride and $1 per 10-trip pass come Oct.
A new tuition-free LGBTQ+-focused middle school in Brooklyn is creating a space where kids can learn, get creative, feel like they belong, and be themselves.
Taylor Meredith, Pilot Light's education policy advisor, joined "Weekends on 1" to discuss the launch.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman vowed to ban transgender students from girls' school bathrooms and locker rooms statewide if he’s elected New York's governor in November.
By Stephen Louis Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s charter revision commission, known as the Committee on Government Efficiency (COGE), has put forth proposals in five yes-or-no questions to appear on this fall’s general election…
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Payroll records for 8,401 employees of the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) for fiscal....
by Olivia Seaman, Brooklyn Paper A new education campus is coming to Floyd Bennett Field, where nonprofit Runway Green has signed a 60-year lease with the National Park Service to transform seven acres of the historic…
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The National Park Service has leased a 7-acre space in Brooklyn’s Marine Park neighborhood to a workforce development nonprofit.
A new report by the CUNY School of Public Health and the Workers Justice Project, first obtained by The City Reporter, zeroes in on the issue of deactivation and reveals the vast physical and mental toll of delivery…
Hundreds of City University of New York (CUNY) students now have access to free, unlimited OMNY cards under a new City Council pilot program launched Monday.
Initial cohort of 700 CUNY students will receive the transit cards, funded with $700k secured by the Council in FY27 budget NEW YORK – The New York City Council and the City University of New York (CUNY) today launched…
PoliticsNY’s latest special edition, Inside Government: Public Schools features the government officials shaping New York’s public schools and overall educational landscape.
YIMBY recently visited the Melrose section of the South Bronx, where two new all-affordable residential buildings and a charter school are under construction.
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Nearly 40 percent of homeless families with children are placed in shelters outside the borough of their child’s school, forcing long commutes, early mornings, and strained community ties.
On a weekday morning in Bed Stuy, a parent is shelving books in the school library before starting their workday.
More than a third of school districts reviewed used medically inaccurate and misleading sex education curricula.
Greater Long Island’s recent deep dive into the rise of homeschooling sparked quite a debate.
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"Green Schools were actually part of Mayor Mamdani’s campaign platform.