The bills aren't printed yet, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has been touring New York celebrating the state budget.
In poll after poll, Hochul’s policy priorities are popular. Voters are less enthusiastic about the governor herself. [ more › ]
A Ferris wheel at Playland Park.
The historic amusement park located just 20 miles from Manhattan faces an uncertain summer after Westchester County’s contract with its former management collapsed. [ more › ]
Mayor Eric Adams
City Hall wants to rein in the program’s ballooning costs. Critics warn it could increase homelessness. [ more › ]
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Because a three-year-old FOIA request has finally been fulfilled, here are your early links: Prince Edward came through Newark, an unexploded World War II-era bomb found in Cape May Canal, elite scammer and more. [ more › ]
Mamdani argues vacant subway retail space can be repurposed for homeless services.
The model has been successfully tried in Philadelphia and hailed as innovative by local policy experts. [ more › ]
A suspected car thief enters a vehicle in 2022
The car theft crew targeted airport rental cars, according to federal prosecutors. [ more › ]
NYPD officials speak about a police shooting in Brooklyn on April 29, 2025.
The incident involved a chase on the Belt Parkway that ended near Starrett City, officials said. [ more › ]
A scene from a previous year's Metro Gala.
So many balls! So little time. [ more › ]
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Construction is nearing completion on Ray Harlem, a 21-story mixed-use building at 2035 Fifth Avenue in Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by Frida Escobedo Studio in collaboration with Handel Architects and developed by Ray and LMXD, Ray Harlem yields 222 mixed-income apartments as well as 27,000 square feet of cultural space owned and operated by the National Black Theatre. The property is located between East 125th and 126th Streets.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for Lenox Avenue HDFC Cooperative ANCP Cluster, a group of rehabilitated buildings located at 135 West 132nd Street, 424 Lenox Avenue, 426 Lenox Avenue, 432 Lenox Avenue, and 406 Lenox Avenue in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 36 units for purchase for residents at 100 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $63,093 to $192,600.
Permits have been filed for a three-story mixed-use building at 15-65 Clintonville Street in Whitestone, Queens. Located between Locke Avenue and the Cross Island Parkway, the lot is closest to the Flushing-Main Street subway station, served by the 7 train. Josephine Valenza-Aragonesi of SV Building Services Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications. 
The Palestinian Columbia University student who was arrested by ICE after leading anti-Israel protests on campus was set free on April 30. Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, was released from custody following an order from US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford, with the defiant protester sending a message to President Trump and his administration immediately after his release.
A runaway kangaroo led cops on a wild pursuit after the hopping fugitive escaped from its enclosure and caused a two-car crash that shut down parts of an Alabama highway on April 29. The marsupial, named Sheila, was spotted bounding along Interstate 85 in Macon County between Tuskegee and Auburn when two cars attempting to...
A screenshot from a video recording of a March 8 "know your rights" information training session hosted in New York City by the nonprofit Chinese-American Planning Council.
Lawmakers are looking into guidance delivered by trainers at a March 8 workshop hosted by the Chinese American Planning Council. [ more › ]
Construction is about to go vertical at 1448 Third Avenue, the site of a 39-story mixed-use tower in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture and developed by Douglaston Development, the 478-foot-tall structure will span 287,632 square feet and yield 125 condominium units with an average scope of 1,804 square feet. The building will also contain 40,864 square feet of commercial space, 21,224 square feet of community facility space, a cellar level, and a 20-foot-long rear yard. The property is alternately addressed as 170 East 82nd Street and located at the corner of Third Avenue and East 82nd Street.
Mayor Adams wants to offer free after-school to all students who want it.
Adams said he plans to expand after-school to 20,000 students in kindergarten through fifth grade over the next three years. [ more › ]
Gov. Kathy Hochul announces the budget on April 28.
Tenant activists and landlords alike had pushed for the program for years. Hochul ultimately agreed to about a fifth of the funding its legislative sponsors originally sought [ more › ]
Because you gotta put them in a bin, here are your afternoon links: Bin for trash bins, too; Bill Belichick's date night outfit; New Jersey water park lawsuit and more. [ more › ]
President Donald Trump holding up a signed executive order poses with U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon at the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Massapequa is among several Long Island districts that could lose state funding if they keep Native American mascots. [ more › ]
According to a spokesperson for the property owner, the 50 evicted tenants owed a combined $1.5 million in rent.
The 17-year-old boy was shot after midnight Tuesday at Flatbush Gardens, where a 2023 double murder went viral. [ more › ]
Mayor Adams has made the war on rats one of the signature policies of his administration.
Inspectors found no evidence of vermin at the mayor’s Bedford-Stuyvesant rowhouse earlier this month. [ more › ]
New York City
Starting May 1, tenants can apply to affordable apartments after a previous tenants move out, without going through the city’s housing lottery system. [ more › ]
Because it's shirt season, here are your early links: Canadian study says drinking champagne could prevent cardiac arrest, Jeremy Renner's memoir about getting run over by a snow plow, YouTuber who pretended to pass out behind the wheel in Times Square and more. [ more › ]
Bob the Drag Queen performing at Barracuda, 2014.
“I hope this book makes people realize just how much queer history happened in every neighborhood, on, like, every block,” author Marc Zinaman said. [ more › ]
Construction is wrapping up on the Linden Grove Senior Residences, a 13-story modular residential building at 223 Linden Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Designed and developed in a collaboration between Blue Sea Development Company and Gilbane Development Company, the structure yields 153 affordable units in studio- to one-bedroom layouts for qualifying low-income and formerly homeless senior citizens. The property is situated near the corner of Linden Street and Wilson Avenue.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives on the scene of a parking garage collapse on Ann Street in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
A new city report finds dangerous unpermitted work, poor maintenance and overloaded floors led to the 2023 garage collapse that killed one worker. [ more › ]
The MTA plans to replace turnstiles at city subway stations with modern fare gates equipped with sliding glass doors.
Transit officials have griped about fare evasion for decades, but until now never moved to fundamentally redesign the city's subway turnstiles. [ more › ]
The Queens home where police say an unlicensed man performed a botched surgical procedure that left a woman in critical condition.
Felipe Hoyos Foronda was arrested at JFK Airport while trying to leave the country, officials say. [ more › ]
The MTA and Gov. Kathy Hochul have pushed to beef up the number of cops and surveillance cameras in the subway system since 2021.
The transit agency's head of security said the technology could be used to help prevent crimes before they happen. [ more › ]
Hochul rallies for a budget deal in Albany.
Here are the basics on this year’s state budget agreement. [ <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-announces-254b-budget-to-ban-phone-use-in-school-send-out-rebate-checks"more › ]
New York repealed an older anti-mask law during the COVID pandemic.
The mask policy was one of the final hurdles Hochul and the Legislature had to clear to reach a budget agreement. [ more › ]
The scene at West 36th Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island where police said Javon Johnnie was shot and killed on April 27, 2025.
Javon Johnnie, 18, was shot near his home, according to police. [ more › ]
Because he appreciates the culture, here are your afternoon links: Zooey Deschanel is engaged to a Property Brother, license plate crackdown in the congestion zone, shorts season for some and more. [ more › ]
Evidence markers are seen on the street at Malcolm X Boulevard and West 113rd Street on April 23, 2025.
Excenia Mette was fatally shot after she stepped outside her building to check on her grandson, officials say. [ more › ]
Because it never went away, but whatever, here are your early links: 5G towers on the Upper West Side, Rep. Mike Lawler got yelled at during his town hall, sorghum wants to be cool and more. [ more › ]
From left: Cliff Hagen, Griffin Fossella, and Frank Morano are competing for Staten Island’s open City Council seat in Tuesday’s special election.
Despite different political backgrounds, the three candidates running for Staten Island’s open City Council seat agree on key neighborhood concerns like hotel development and battery storage facilities. [ more › ]
A train passes through the Whitehall–South Ferry subway station in Manhattan on Dec. 3, 2019.
The NYPD says it's arrested a 44-year-old Brooklyn man in the incident from earlier this month. [ more › ]
Councilmember Sandy Nurse speaks outside City Hall criticizing the city's use of homeless encampment clean-ups on Tuesday April 22, 2025.
New city data shows police helped clear thousands of homeless from the streets but it’s unclear where they ended up. [ more › ]
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