It's Thursday in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised to eventually offer free universal childcare for every kid starting at six weeks old.
To get there, the city will need to rely on home-based daycare centers like the one run by Andrea Peña in Pelham Bay.
But the long-term viability of her business isn't guaranteed: Even when she's fully enrolled, the state vouchers most her kids' families use aren't enough to cover payroll for her three employees, insurance, utilities, school supplies and a living wage for herself.
Peña currently takes home about $9.50 an hour when everything is settled.
Migrant children facing deportation are appearing before immigration judges without attorneys due to the expiration of a federal contract that provided these minors with lawyers. (A new contract with a different firm takes effect Aug. 15.)
A 24-year-old Brooklyn man is facing a federal arson charge for allegedly setting a historic Bushwick church on fire in June.
New York state lawmakers are considering lifting a decades-old ban that shuttered the city's gay bathhouses and other adult establishments during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Mayor Mamdani said yesterday the city had issued 42 cease-and-desist orders to online retailers as part of a crackdown on the sales of illegal e-bikes and scooters.
One downside of those oligarch-friendly Manhattan luxury towers: The tap water can get murky if people aren't actually living there and keeping things moving.
Conservative artist and provocateur Scott LoBaido suffered a cardiac arrest emergency this week after trying to confront Mayor Mamdani at an event on Staten Island.
P.G. Sittenfeld, a Cincinnati politician and the brother of Curtis Sittenfeld, wrote about the agony of being separated from his smartphone while in federal prison for campaign corruption charges that were later vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"This vehicle violated street cleaning rules," the stickers read. "As a result, this street could not be properly cleaned." The stickers also come with the traditional $65 ticket.
