It's Thursday in New York, where state lawmakers finally passed a budget.
The $268.5 billion spending deal, which is 8 weeks late, will soften the state’s climate change goals, limit local police from cooperating with ICE and spread cash to cities struggling with their own financial woes.
The budget also contains wins for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who's getting a pied-a-terre tax along with state help closing a $5.4 billion city budget deficit.
More than 8 million New Yorkers are set to get a check this fall of up to $200 to offset rising utility costs. See if you're eligible.
The NYPD said yesterday that subway surfers are stealing MTA conductors' keys and buying them on Amazon, making it easier for them to access off-limits parts of the transit system.
Happy, a Bronx Zoo elephant who was the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit arguing she was a "person" being inhumanely imprisoned, has been euthanized at the age of 55.
City officials are warning that young New Yorkers who receive SNAP benefits are most at risk of losing the food aid due to sweeping new work requirements put in place by the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, in New Jersey, officials have tried for a year to assert some control over the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark. Their efforts have mostly failed.
The FDNY said a deadly explosion at a Staten Island shipyard last week was accidental.
Thousands of middle and elementary school students in Washington Heights and Inwood are in the midst of a digital detox this week, doing all they can to avoid computers and expand recess time.
An Upper West Sider who'd been the lone holdout in his apartment building that was bought years ago by a former New York Giant was finally evicted and is now fighting to get the unit back.
This Hell's Kitchen single-room occupancy apartment tenant is fighting to keep from being evicted by a landlord who wants to convert his unit into a hotel room.
Bushwick Inlet Park now has a little beach where you can't swim.
While both candidates disagreed with the co-op's vote to boycott Israeli foods, they sought to differentiate themselves over their reasoning, with Goldman continuing to describe it as antisemitic and Lander objecting to that characterization.
Transportation officials will extend the parking-protected bike lane from Calyer Street to the Pulaski Bridge, fully implementing a project that prosecutors allege had been watered down in exchange for bribes paid to a deputy of previous Mayor Eric Adams.
The NYPD said it'll be barring “uncontrolled” events as the Finals begin next week, following several outdoor screenings at MSG that drew thousands of fans.
