Weather: ☁️ Early showers and patchy fog, with highs in the mid 60s.
It's Monday in New York City, where at least four yellow cab drivers died on the job over the summer.
All four were immigrants struggling to make ends meet, often choosing to work long hours for poverty wages as they chipped away at the debt for their taxi medallions.
"It’s a debtors’ prison," said Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the Taxi Workers Alliance. "You begin each day at a negative and you have to keep working, whether you’re sick or have an emergency, even if you’re grieving, you keep working so at least you’re not paying your expenses out of pocket."
Monday's commute should be mostly normal following the nor’easter that slammed New York and New Jersey over the weekend.
A 56 year-old NYCHA employee was struck and killed by a falling tree in East New York Saturday afternoon, though it wasn’t immediately clear if the tree fell because of the storm.
The nor'easter hit as Westchester County is in the middle of revising its plan for dealing with the hazards from severe storms, including mitigating flood risks.
Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. and Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett sparred last night in the first and likely only debate between the two New Jersey candidates locked in one of the country’s most closely watched congressional races.
"I've got a blind structure in which I have no involvement and no input": Kean defended his recent investment profits, including the roughly $340,000 he made from stock trades during his 116-day absence from Congress.
The Council’s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is considering more than 20 bills tackling micromobility safety — from cracking down on illegal mopeds to further regulating delivery apps and boosting enforcement involving e-bike and e-scooter riders.
A group representing childcare providers says the funding gap between what New York City pays preschools and what it costs to operate is about $12,600 per child.
The New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx last night in their first game of Round 1 of the WNBA playoffs. Here's what's happening with the 2024 league champions going into this postseason.
Mayor Mamdani will join WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show,” on Tuesday, September 29 for his quarterly segment of “Ask the Mayor.” How’s he doing in his first nine months in office? Tell us what you think, along with any questions you have for the mayor, using this form.
The full lineup for 2026’s OHNY Weekend — Oct. 16, 17 and 18 — features 300 destinations across the five boroughs, ranging from Con Edison generating stations to artists’ studios, walled gardens and a number of behind-the-scenes looks within many city institutions.
