It's Friday in New York City, where a program that helps homeless young people leave the shelter system and find permanent housing is at risk.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s current preliminary budget does not include money for "housing specialists": professionals, many of whom were once homeless themselves, who connect young peers to housing, mental health counseling and other services.
Environmental advocates are renewing the push to close Rikers Island and use the land for sustainability and resiliency purposes, in keeping with the law.
If you're ordering pho (or anything else) for delivery, here's your reminder to tip 20%, preferably in cash, and 30% if the weather is bad.
These tenparks in underserved city neighborhoods are now slated for upgrades.
The cold winter means we're in for a Long Island oystershortage this summer.
An NYPD officer who'd been assigned to City Council Speaker Julie Menin’s security detail is under investigation for allegedly getting drunk on the job and using an official office as a party room.
The Trump administration purchased a giant warehouse in rural Roxbury Township with plans to convert it into one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country, roiling what was already shaping up to be a gripping and crowded Democratic primary in the state’s 7th Congressional District.
WABC radio host Sid Rosenberg, who called the mayor an “America-hating, Jew-hating, Radical Islam cockroach” and a “jihadist” in a since-deleted social media post, later said his comments were “a bit over the top."
