Coney Island’s small, 1890s lighthouse may be landmarked by the city
The Coney Island lighthouse It's in the private community of Sea Gate. Family members of the lighthouse's last civilian keeper are keeping its history alive.…
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New renderings are out for Queens’ Metropolitan Park casino
Renderings of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Metropolitan Park development by Citi Field in Queens. The city's Public Design Commission taking a look at…
Read full article β200K Bronx Residents Could Get Reprieve From New Medicaid Work Requirements
This story wasΒ originally publishedΒ by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters atΒ healthbeat.org/newsletters. As new Medicaid work requirements are set to take effect in January,…
Read full article βOpinion: New York State Must Innovate to Achieve Equitable Access to PrEP
"PrEP has given us the power to prevent HIV in ways that were once unimaginable, but the people who need it must be able to…
Read full article βInside Luigi Mangione’s legal strategy before his federal guilty plea
Luigi Mangione (R) appears with his lawyers for a hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 11,…
Read full article βMamdani insta a propietarios de garajes impedir ingreso de ICE a sus instalaciones tras tiroteo en Marble Hill
El alcalde de la ciudad de Nueva York hizo un llamado a los propietarios de garajes para detener el uso de sus instalaciones como centros…
Read full article βNYC proposes crackdown down on AI customer service chatbots
Customers would have to be provided the option of speaking with a human. [ more βΊ ]
Read full article βEarly Addition: There’s a new hot duck, this time in Queens
This is a different mandarin duck, not the one in Flushing, but you get the idea. Because a mandarin duck has been frolicking in Flushing,…
Read full article βNYPD hate crime unit investigates smashed windows, βPal Actionβ graffiti at UES Capital One
Capital One Bank in Union Square in 2021. The bank previously faced protests over a $90 million loan to an Israeli drone company. [ more…
Read full article ββCome Back to Usβ: Public Housing Residents Press Mamdani to Deliver on Promises
Thousands of public housing residents, community and religious leaders gathered for an "accountability assembly," to press Mayor Zohran Mamdani to investigate conditions in NYCHA developments…
Read full article βA reliably Republican part of NJ, until ICE came to town
The entrance road for a warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey that the Trump administration plans to transform into an ICE detention center. The Trump administrationβs…
Read full article βNYC school integration debate exposes tensions between Black parents and Mamdani
"Where the Black babies at?" one parent recalled wondering while watching Mayor Mamdani's press conference about early childhood education in February. Some see a blind…
Read full article βWelcome to Hotel RAV4: The Brutal Commute of New Yorkers Priced Out to the Poconos
After a twelve-hour shift, most people would undergo a bleary-eyed commute home, enjoy whatever show theyβre currently binging, and go to bed before doing it…
Read full article βThe Knicksβ Championship Rings Are Finally Here. So Is a βJalenβ Baby Name Boom in NYC.
When the New York Knicks took home the NBA championship title for the first time in 53 years this summer, fans joked that a Knicks-inspired…
Read full article βQueens man charged with hate crime at Jewish-owned bagel shop displaying Israeli flags
Bagels & Co., a kosher bagel shop in Fresh Meadows, Queens, where prosecutors say a man vandalized property outside the business in May 2026. Prosecutors…
Read full article βMTA train yards are in such bad shape plants are growing out of the roof, watchdog says
The roof of the MTA's East 180th Street maintenance shop. In some cases, the damage was βclearly not recent." [ more βΊ ]
Read full article βOpinion: A Flawed Ruling Threatens to Lock New Tens of Thousands of New Yorkers Out of Housing
"Challenges to the constitutionality of any law must be grounded in real harm, not speculation about scenarios that likely will never come to pass." The…
Read full article βHigh-ranking NYC officials to testify in ex-buildings boss Eric Ulrich’s corruption trial
Former Department of Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich at court on Monday. Manhattan prosecutors say Ulrichβs predecessor at the buildings department will testify in the trial…
Read full article βFree Childcare for 2-Year-Olds Is Expanding in NYC Next Year. Hereβs Where.
This story was originally publishedΒ by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters atΒ ckbe.at/newsletters. As New York Cityβs free childcare program is on track to reach 12,000…
Read full article βLISTEN: They Ban Horses, Donβt They?
New York City isΒ poised to finally pass a carriage horse ban after more than a decade of talk about that β but itβs far from…
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