It's Tuesday in New York City, where Gowanus — now home to luxury high rises and a hip shuffleboard club — hasn't escaped its industrial past.
State health officials recently announced that a year-long effort to eliminate chemical fumes in the basement of P.S. 372 near the Gowanus Canal has been unsuccessful.
The ongoing struggle to clear high levels of petroleum contamination, which were first identified in 2024, raises the likelihood that a permanent fix won't be found before the start of the 2026-2027 school year.
Here's what this means for students, teachers and residents in this neighborhood that's still in the midst of a Superfund cleanup effort.
New data shows that more than 8,000 New York City households were evicted from their apartments in the first half of this year amid a deep affordable housing crisis that has fueled record-high rents.
The use of pepper spray by corrections officers in New York state prisons has exploded over the past decade, according to a new report that documents a broader rise in prison guards' use of force.
New Jersey’s new e-bike regulations — which require riders to be at least 15 years old, licensed, registered, and, in some cases, insured — go into effect this month.
The women's professional soccer team Gotham FC said it's moving in 2028 to Etihad Park, a stadium currently under construction in Willetts Point, Queens.
New York City's Department of Buildings said it's looking into a NYCHA plumber supervisor who made $465,000 last year thanks to a lot of overtime.
The Black unemployment rate in New York City sits at 8.8%, which is up slightly from last year and considerably higher than the national Black unemployment rate of 6.6%.
Donna Siafakas, the owner and operator of Greenpoint's famed Peter Pan donuts, has died at the age of 69.
Thankfully no one was injured when the roof partially collapsed at a New Jersey BJ's Wholesale Club during yesterday's downpour.
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office's Police Accountability Unit have been filling their dockets with NYPD officers they say have abused their positions while on duty.
The Newtown Creek Alliance hopes its fiberglass tank full of mussels and marsh grass can make a small dent in cleaning up one of the most polluted waterways in the country.
