“You can make a planter out of anything,” longtime gardener Perri Edwards told an admirer of her MoMA-inspired heads sculpted from milk cartons, with leaves of different shades and species sprouting like hair.
Advocates see the change as an effort to spur confusion and scare immigrants from using public programs.
Council Speaker Julie Menin wants Albany to pass its own version of the Garden State's flawed, one-size-fits-all e-bike registration law.
About 2,000 New York City children received offers Tuesday for the city’s first free 2-K seats, while roughly 3,700 applicants were placed on waitlists as a new report estimated that providing universal child care could…
Hearing to include over a dozen legislative proposals and oversight of existing laws as Council plans comprehensive action to improve safety for pedestrians and riders NEW YORK, NY — Today, the New York City Council…
Billions of dollars could flow to proactive jurisdictions that build more homes
Twenty Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) employees collected more than $400,000 each in total pay last....
by Adam Daly, amNY Roughly 2,000 applications for an exemption from New York City’s new second-home tax have been completed by applicants, according to the city’s Department of Finance.
This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Crown Heights, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, and Bay Ridge.
Nearly three families applied for each free childcare seat for 2-year-olds in New York City’s program rolling out next month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov.
In the News Mamdani May Need $5 Billion More a Year for Free Child Care [NYT] Brooklyn Nets Owners Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai Divorcing [NYP] Caputo’s Owner Back With Park Slope Bagel Shop [Eagle] Social Justice Fund…
The Mamdani administration and a major insurer agreed to pay up to $53 million to reimburse retired civil servants who said they’d been wrongly charged copays for medical visits.
Despite efforts to expand the system, more than half of the state’s counties still lack courts that serve people with serious mental illness.
Heyyy, they’re walkin’ here! The city’s Transportation Department has hit an app that tracks New Yorkers’ block-by-block walking routes with a cease-and-desist letter.
The NYPD's justification for filling this weekend's car-free Summer Streets with patrol vehicles isn't adding up.
New York could raise billions of dollars for the proposed IBX by taxing the increase in property values from the new rail line.
It’s time to make bus rapid transit a reality in the five boroughs.
What's with all the city officials getting chauffeured around.
"This line of argument can appear sound—why shouldn’t the poorest New Yorkers get sole access to rent-stabilized apartments?—but it is ultimately a distraction from the real dynamics at play in the rental housing…
El 31 de julio expiró el contrato federal con organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro para que presten asistencia jurídica a más de 25.000 menores inmigrantes no acompañados en el país.
This impressive Park Slope brownstone has been divided up into five units, but the listing photos show there are still some 1880s details visible on the interior.
A Salvadoran man held for the past six weeks at Delaney Hall, the largest ICE detention center in the New York metro area, has died, his mother and attorneys say.
As the city’s longest public defender strike since 1982 bleeds into its second week, one immigration attorney will be crossing the picket line to return to work Tuesday in what her union has called an “impossible” and…
As the mayor’s push to trumpet the collection of his new pied-à-terre tax and confront quiet money with loud politics got off to a bumpy start, he’s standing his ground and playing for time to smooth things out.
Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, whose 87-month federal prison sentence for fraud and identity theft was commuted by President Donald Trump in October, has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a federal…
Roughly 2,000 applications for an exemption from New York City’s new second-home tax have been completed by applicants, according to the city’s Department of Finance.
A major rezoning that will allow the Monitor Point development to move forward on the Greenpoint waterfront has been approved by the New York City Council, paving the way for a developer to build three towers with as…
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
This week: Adams’ Charter Revision Commission Concludes; Security Cameras at the Polls; Onondaga County Term Limits Compromise?; New York City’s Newest New Yorkers- A Report; Webinar/Learn About the Census Bureau’s…
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.