Weather: ☀️ Sunny and breezy, with highs in the mid 70s.
It's Thursday in New York City, where President Donald Trump has ordered Amtrak to start construction on a Penn Station overhaul by the end of 2027.
But whichever redesign plan the feds go with, it won't be the one the MTA commissioned back in 2022 at a previously unreported cost of $74 million in public funds.
Here's the cautionary tale of how the MTA tried and failed to get Madison Square Garden to agree to its vision — and wound up sidelined from the whole project.
And here's what else is happening:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it's looking to lease 150 parking spaces in Downtown Manhattan.
A New York state judge has ordered the Mamdani administration to pause plans to relocate homeless intake services from a decrepit Midtown shelter to the East Village after residents near the new facility sued.
City officials recently gave a Gothamist reporter and photographer a rare look inside the massive Midtown shelter known as Bellevue, which the mayor says is no longer structurally sound.
Fifteen people were injured in a school bus crash near the Long Island Expressway and Grand Central Parkway in Queens yesterday, the FDNY said.
City Councilmember Chi Ossé has been released from custody after his arrest yesterday during a protest involving a resident’s property dispute in Bed-Stuy.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini for offering prediction market betting, even though the sites don't have gaming licenses.
If NYU student Barron Trump, or anyone else, claims the Trump Tower penthouse as their primary residence, that could nullify the “second-home” debate — and ensure the president wouldn’t have to pay the extra tax.
Since the shuttering of the Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, the downstate grid is roughly 90% dependent on fossil fuels and facing rising demand from increasing use of electricity for heat, transportation and data.
