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It's Tuesday in New York, where high radiation levels have prompted officials to contact hundreds of residents near Buffalo and driven four families out of their homes.
State and federal environmental regulators say the source of the mysterious contamination could be tied to the Manhattan Project, the World War II nuclear weapon development program that had ties to Niagara and Erie counties.
"This area should be added to the state superfund for a full cleanup," said Joseph Romm, an energy expert and senior researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
"During the Manhattan Project, everything was top secret," he said, "so the exposure levels, what people were exposed to and what the levels were, was never widely known."
Here's what else is happening:
The family of the 18-year-old Indian tourist who was killed last month in a Central Park carriage horse crash said they're planning to sue the city.
The city's health department has identified 56 buildings on the Upper East Side that had active Legionella bacteria living in their cooling towers before an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that has so far killed five people.
Some 40,000 Haitian nationals living in New York are reeling from the federal government's termination of their temporary protected status, thus exposing them to possible deportation.
The NYPD said officers have recovered 16 guns in the same Bronx district where a 12-year-old bystander was fatally shot on Saturday.
An annual eight-night indie rock extravaganza put on by Yo La Tengo has been marred by scalpers that snatched up tickets to the Bowery Ballroom Hanukkah celebration moments after they went on sale.
City officials said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores — the first of which is set to open late in 2027 — will offer meat, seafood and fresh produce at prices 30% cheaper than at other retail stores.
An aborted plan by a Western New York school district to use "Sally," a robotic teacher's assistant made by a company that also produces sex dolls, has prompted the state teacher’s union to call for new limits on artificial intelligence in schools.
Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent-turned-special envoy in the Trump administration, is possibly running an unlicensed hostel out of his Gramercy Park townhouse.
The city still offers some great places where you can go and do absolutely nothing without feeling pressured to get involved in an activity or purchase something.
The Hulu sitcom “Not Suitable for Work” features characters living in plausibly generic Murray Hill apartments, a far cry from the unrealistic luxury of the ’90s sitcoms.
At least one possible reason for the uneven effect of the automated crackdown was in plain sight during a recent visit to several bus routes in the Bronx: Illegally parked drivers were obscuring their plates or popping their trunks to hide their plates from the cameras.
"We are in a new kind of climate that is hotter and wetter, and we are seeing a lot more of these climate threats happening at the same time," said Louise Yeung, the city’s chief climate officer.
