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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. On the campaign trail, Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed to take a state mandate to slash class sizes seriously, saying …

Diesel-powered refrigeration units that have long spewed toxins into neighborhoods with some of the country’s highest rates of respiratory ailments are being phased out at the Hunts Point Produce Market. …

Prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday alleging the operators of city-funded migrant shelters skimmed $1 million from their no-bid contracts, and pocketed kickbacks from subcontractors they brought in to handle security …

New York has the lowest homeownership rate in the country, with just over half the state’s residents reporting owning a home in 2024, according to data from the Federal Reserve. Most of the …

The New York City Council on Thursday passed a pair of bills aimed at targeting hate across the city by creating “security perimeters” for protests around houses of worship and …

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will probably be compelled to defend its detention practices inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza in a trial slated for the top of Could.  Immigrant …

A Trump-appointed federal decide in New York’s Southern District denied a Metropolis Council staffer’s request for launch from immigration detention Monday, ruling his pending Non permanent Protected Standing didn’t defend …

That journey didn’t final lengthy. Simply over per week after the newest head of the New York Metropolis Taxi & Limousine Fee accepted a job with Empower — the ride-hailing …

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday named a brand new deputy mayor tasked with creating after which overseeing a brand new workplace of group security. He appointed Renita Francoise, a veteran …

A 12 months after a metropolis watchdog documented that the top of town Board of Elections (BOE) recurrently made inappropriate sexual and ethnically biased feedback to a youthful Hispanic employees …