It's Tuesday in New York City, where Albert Elia, unlike many of his peers, was excited to serve on a month-long grand jury.
But after two days, a judge sent him home.
Elia, a 52-year-old disability rights attorney who is blind himself, said the judge denied his requests for accommodations that would've let him participate, including in cases with visual evidence.
Now, a federal judge has ruled that Elia can sue the state court system for discrimination.
Health officials are advising older residents of a housing complex in Glen Oaks, Queens, to avoid taking showers in their apartments after two of their neighbors were diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease.
Nearly 6,300 New York City households may have a chance to get new long-term federal housing vouchers and stay in their current apartments after the Trump administration's earlier decision to let their existing aid expire.
This could mark the end of a saga that began almost two years ago, when the Trump administration announced that a Biden-era program that provided rental assistance for tens of thousands of Americans during the pandemic was about to run out of money.
A Brooklyn NYPD detective who admitted to giving false information during a criminal investigation has been forced to retire after 18 years on the job.
Pressure is mounting on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to revive a $650 million plan to reduce pollution at Hunts Point Produce Market in the South Bronx, where diesel-spewing refrigerated trailers contribute to some of the worst air quality in the city.
Cases of Gatorade distributed in New York and New Jersey are being recalled because some bottles may contain food dyes that aren't listed on the label, according to the FDA.
The city's parks department said the lights will stay on until 2 a.m. at one soccer field in each of the five boroughs this fall and again next spring.
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City Comptroller Mark Levine is warning that tax revenue from Wall Street's AI profits are covering up holes in the city's budget and a downturn in those stocks would devastate our economy.
The West Village is getting the city's first gated school street, where the roadway will be closed to cars during the school day.
"I could light myself on fire in the Hudson Valley and the network affiliates wouldn’t cover it": Former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said the "evaporation of local media" outside New York City has been detrimental for the political health of his region.
Each week, photographer Rob Stephenson picks one neighborhood and spends several hours walking around with a camera in hand. He eventually uploads those photos — along with archival images and written research about the community — to a Substack newsletter called The Neighborhoods.
The functionally extinct American chestnut tree is returning to the Bronx Zoo, where the blight that nearly wiped out the species was first discovered more than 100 years ago.
An advocacy group backed by cooling tower companies wants the city to filter all the city’s drinking water. Some experts say it would be a waste of money.
New renderings show the city would build a highway that flies over the iconic bridge to divert traffic while the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's triple-cantilever structure is rebuilt.
