It's Friday in New York City, where even luxury apartment towers can be crappy.
At the 51-story Brooklyner complex in Downtown Brooklyn, for example, tenants this winter went days without water, heat and functioning elevators.
After the building's management allegedly downplayed the problems, one tenant went door-to-door distributing leaflets asking neighbors to join her at a meeting. Weeks later, they'd formed a tenant association.
A runway at LaGuardia Airport will remain closed today for ongoing inspections after sinkhole repair work, complicating operations at one of the region’s busiest transportation hubs during the unofficial kickoff of summer travel season.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani yesterday announced a lottery initiative to let 1,000 New York City residents buy World Cup tickets for $50 each.
Port Authority officials blamed the effects of a brutally cold winter for causing chunks of concrete and sheet metal to fall onto the Trans-Manhattan Expressway earlier this month.
The Mamdani’s administration has mandated over two dozen policy changes aimed at bolstering the city’s sanctuary laws.
The death of a 75-year-old man found shot near the shore of Kissena Lake in Queens earlier this week has been ruled a homicide.
New York state is considering pledging $175 million to help developers build a platform over train tracks at the long-delayed Atlantic Yards project, according to five people with knowledge of the plan.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said it's investigating the owners of an Inwood apartment building with more than 100 housing code violations where a deadly fire broke out earlier this month.
A Downtown Manhattan parking garage removed nine federal government vehicles from its premises after immigration activists claimed some of the vehicles were being used by ICE.
The State Department of Environmental Conservation said it's monitoring conditions after a Long Beach treatment plant accidentally dumped about 30,000 gallons of sewage water into a local waterway.
Holdout residents of a single room occupancy hotel at 125 Bowery say they're being harassed by their landlord who wants to take over their units for a new "capsule-style" hotel (that happens to be getting horrible reviews).
These oldRoosevelt Island tram cars should be turned into gazebos.
The race to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler includes two state lawmakers and two men with deep ties to the DC elite. Then there's Nina Schwalbe, a public health professional who's fighting to break in.
New York's Working Families Party said it's adopting a “block and build” strategy to help Democrats retake the U.S. House of Representatives in November. That means blocking Republicans in districts where they are viable, and sending progressive champions to fight for workers in solidly blue seats.
