Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted President Donald Trump at Gracie Mansion, where they discussed funding for counterterrorism security and the planned Sunnyside Yard housing development along with immigration enforcement. In a wide-ranging meeting on Monday, convened by the mayor while the president was…
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He knows Gracie Mansion, I’m sure he’ll make some decoration recommendations about gold-plated lamé everywhere. … But I do wonder if they’ll stick to the things that make Donald Trump feel good. … Because Mamdani is still so popular, that impresses Trump. … I think that helps. … He needs some…
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The New York City Housing Authority has sent lease termination notices to a handful of public housing tenants who are refusing to relocate to make way for a $1.2 billion project to demolish and rebuild some deteriorating buildings in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Working with private sector…
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Earlier this month, kindergarteners in Croton-on-Hudson started the school year without screens after a campaign by hundreds of local parents.
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You got two great mayors of New York over 400 years: Fiorello La Guardia — let’s call him a mayor who had to do with the alternatives to capitalism. And Mike Bloomberg, not necessarily so described. But the two of them were transformational in very, very difficult times. Director Ric Burns and his…
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Four takeaways from the first event in our live lecture series, Focus On, featuring Assemblymember Alex Bores and author Garrison Lovely.
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State Attorney General Letitia James on Friday announced she is intervening in the pending foreclosure sale of a parking lot in Elmhurst, Queens, that sits on top of an African burial ground. James filed a motion Friday morning asking for a court order declaring that whoever purchases the property…
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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City’s chronic absenteeism rate remains stubbornly high, with 1 in 3 students missing at least 10% of the 2025-26 school year, according to figures released Thursday. The rate remained…
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The first Mayor’s Management Report of Zohran Mamdani’s tenure was released Thursday, squaring performance data with the mayor’s “pothole politics” plan for government. While the report doesn’t offer a full picture on the new mayor and his administration’s ambitious goals, it’s a start. The fiscal…
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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, has tree-lined streets, views of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and, compared to most other areas in the city, hardly any new housing. But the neighborhood’s pace of development could soon change because of a new voter-approved City Charter measure meant to speed up new…
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Henry Williams read the news of the release of long-suppressed 9/11 city documents last week with curiosity, but he soon found a confusing portal without any context or guide. A project manager by day, he said he was always “interested in messy, difficult data.” Here, he found plenty. So on…
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The Republican incumbent accuses his opponent of supporting data centers, but has avoided taking a clear position on their buildout in New York.
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