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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City officials urged summer school programs to limit outdoor activity on Thursday as wildfire smoke wafted into the …

The City Council voted unanimously to approve a one-time $10,000 payment to most of the public school paraprofessionals on Thursday, an effort to boost retention and recruitment for the badly-needed …

This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Health officials have yet to identify the source of the Legionnaires’ outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side as the …

Trash cans overflowing with empty Modelo bottles. Weeknights spent hanging out with friends with no regard for work in the morning. Fireworks on Steinway Street. New York City has been …

City Comptroller Mark Levine on Wednesday launched a comprehensive audit of nearly a quarter-billion dollars in no-bid migrant shelter contracts the city awarded to a non-profit group called BHRAGS Home …

As pressure mounts to end the city’s horse-drawn carriage rides once and for all, lawmakers are working to develop a jobs plan for the industry’s drivers — but the proposal …

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City officials are expanding a slew of the city’s highest-demand special education programs into preschool classrooms for …

With smoke traveling in from wildfires burning in Minnesota and Ontario, New York is due for a week of hazy skies and possibly poorer air quality. When smoke from Canadian …

More than 500 cooling towers across Manhattan are not in compliance with city regulations requiring monthly water sample tests to help combat the spread of the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria, …

Elena Zerkal isn’t shy about tooting her own horn over the 11 years she spent behind the wheel as a for-hire vehicle driver. “Five-star ratings, professional, I never had any …