Overall applications for both pre-K and 3-K programs were virtually unchanged, dropping by less than 1% compared to last year.

New York City officials have activated the city’s heat emergency plan for an expected two-day blast of extreme heat starting Tuesday. That includes opening cooling centers, expanding outreach to at ...

Around 11 p.m. on July 29, 2023, Robert “Otis” Pena and four of his friends were driving back to Pena’s place in Midwood, Brooklyn after a birthday celebration. The group a ...

Kathy Hochul is poised to make New York the nation’s latest sanctuary state, completing a remarkable evolution from an upstate county clerk who once threatened to call the authorities on undocumented ...

Because the kingdom says it won't be cutting a $200 million check due to the Iran war, here are your early links: Central Park carriage horse collision, Knicks back in action, Mr. Feeny's open ...

A woman died after falling about 10 feet down an open Con Edison manhole in Midtown on Monday night, NYPD officials said. Police said the 56-year-old appeared to have parked her car near the corner of ...

New York GOP members of Congress "own" the healthcare cuts tied to the coverage losses, a Hochul spokesperson said.

The Long Island Rail Road strike ended Monday night after the MTA reached a tentative deal with five labor unions following days of stalled negotiations and a chaotic first workday for commuters. The ...

Ask The Mayor” is back on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.” Mayor Zohran Mamdani has agreed to a quarterly on-air interview with Lehrer, following a time-honored tradition of New York City mayors using ...

A cellphone, loaded magazine, a passport, a wallet and a computer chip police found when they arrested Luigi Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, cannot be presented as evidence to a ...

The NYPD arrested Samantha Randazzo on a low-level drug charge. Coney Island Hospital discharged her. Critics say the Brooklyn DA and court system failed to prevent what happened next.

A 41-year-old woman died in custody at the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island Monday morning, becoming at least the third person to die in the city jail system this year, according to the ...