It's Friday, and U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is still absent.
The New Jersey Republican — who has long been criticized for avoiding public town halls and interviews — hasn’t been present in Washington to cast a vote in almost two months.
And while he finally posted on social media earlier this week that he's been dealing with "a personal medical issue," he offered no further details on what's going on or when, exactly, he'll return to work.
Home flipping in New York City, which is more prevalent in disproportionately Black neighborhoods, is driving up home costs and pushing Black residents out of the city, a new study says.
City Councilmember Frank Morano, a Staten Island Republican, is pushing to stop the state DMV from issuing tow truck license plates to vehicles that aren't actually authorized to work as tow trucks in the city.
The move comes after a Gothamist investigation found that hundreds of illegal tow trucks are operating across the five boroughs.
State Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar's name will appear on the ballot in the June Democratic primary in her Queens district after a judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing her campaign of submitting hundreds of forged signatures.
"We need full-scale reform, not simply a piecemeal exemption carved out to support a single industry": House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined two other local Democrats yesterday in voting against a bill (that passed) to ensure hot rotisserie chickens are covered under the federal food stamp program.
"As the polls show Jack Schlossberg ahead, we think we can do better than that": The progressive Working Families Party, which initially declined to endorse a candidate in the NY-12 Democratic primary, said it may back someone, after all.
UPS trucks were New York City's most egregious bus-lane blockers in 2025, nearly doubling Amazon's number of citations, according to MTA data.
Pre-war New York City apartment building doorbells and intercoms are old and janky, but in a cool way?
Meet Esther Cohen, an Upper West Side poet who was recently named the poet laureate of the Hudson Valley county where she owns a vacation home — and then promptly dumped after the county's conservative legislators found her anti-Trump Facebook posts.
The pilot program offered young adults an average of $3,700 to cover housing, food, cellphone bills or other expenses. Of the 98 young New Yorkers who participated, 97% remained in stable living situations six months later.
