It's Thursday in New York City, the first day of school for high school seniors all the way down to 2-year-olds.
But Mayor Zohran Mamdani's debut of free 2-K, along with a growing number of publicly-funded seats for 3- and 4-year-olds, comes amid an ongoing payment crisis, with some preschools waiting on months of funding and others on the brink of closing.
A de facto garbage dump that has festered in a corner of Sunset Park throughout the summer caught on fire this week after city officials said a lithium-ion battery nestled in its depths burst into flames.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the NYPD will increase its presence at this year's commemoration ceremony of 9/11, as well as at synagogues and other sensitive locations during the Jewish High Holidays this weekend.
A Bronx man was indicted yesterday on hate crime charges for allegedly disrupting Shabbat services and assaulting two people at Central Synagogue in Midtown last month.
Legal experts said the Mamdani administration’s decision to settle two lawsuits against the city by releasing thousands of documents showing what officials knew about toxins released after the 9/11 attacks could expand the number of people covered by federal benefit programs.
An investigation into New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell is focused on allegations of inappropriate behavior with women that occurred during the short time since he was inaugurated in January, according to two people with knowledge of the probe.
There's a new TV ad touting Gov. Kathy Hochul's family-forward policies, featuring a young girl who implores: "Please vote for Gov. Kathy Hochul." Why is the ad coming from the super PAC entirely funded by ride-hailing giant Uber?
The proposed Interborough Express linking Brooklyn and Queens via light rail — which officials previously said could be up and running in the 2030s — would have sleek modern stations with elevators, according to new renderings shared with Gothamist.
Two brothers who were charged in 2023 with bribing former New York City buildings commissioner Eric Ulrich to lift a vacate order on a bakery that had shut down pleaded guilty this week to bribery and conspiracy.
Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama chief of staff who's considered a possible Democratic presidential candidate, is doubling down on his claim that he met with Mayor Mamdani and told him that "over my dead body" Israel would cease to be a Jewish state. The Mamdani administration said the meeting never happened.
President Trump said last night he'd send everyone $5,000if Republicans win the House and Senate in November.
The City Council announced last week it would invest $1 million in the 9/11 Memorial & Museum to fund free field trips for New York City students and to create other sorts of educational programming.
Education and technology experts said implementing an AI ban on such short notice will challenge teachers and school officials tasked with making sure students don't use AI chatbots on homework and essays.
“Standing on the Corner II,” the experimental music group’s latest album, is its third to be released on an anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — a onetime coincidence that became a pattern when bandleader Gio Escobar said he realized it served as “a way of raising the dead.”
Gothamist sat down with Radziwill on the eve of her return to the "Real Housewives of New York City," which she starred in for five seasons before departing after a memorable fallout with her onscreen best friend, Bethenny Frankel.
