It's Tuesday in New York City, where — for the first time since 2023 — inspectors have found no evidence of rats at Mayor Eric Adams' Bedford-Stuyvesant rowhouse.
Since taking office in 2022, Adams has been hit with five violations tied to evidence of rat activity outside his home. (Four of those citations were eventually dismissed; Adams paid $300 to settle the other.)
But Monica Reyes, an eight-year resident of Bed-Stuy, said Adams’ own victory in the war on rats should not be interpreted as a win for the neighborhood.
New York state lawmakers said they've tentatively agreed to a $254 billion budget deal that includes phone bans in schools, rebate checks for middle-class families and a new charge for wearing a mask while committing a crime.
The MTA said it plans to use AI technology to analyze real-time subway station security footage and issue automated alerts to the NYPD "if someone is acting out irrationally."
Documents obtained by Gothamist show that back in 2024, the NYPD used an outdated form to put someone in jail for allegedly obstructing government administration — a charge that can apply to resisting arrest or blocking traffic during a protest — when they should've been released with a court ticket.
The father of a teenager who was shot and killed on a Coney Island street corner on Sunday said he believed his son was set up by someone who called him on the phone and told him to come outside.
Authorities said Petros Krommidas, a 29-year-old Long Island Democrat who's running for a seat on the Nassau County Legislature, has been missing for nearly a week.
In other news from America's hat, the Canadian Journal of Cardiology published a new study claiming that drinking champagne, eating fruit and keeping a positive mood could all reduce the risk of sudden cardiac arrest.
New math curricula being rolled out in the city’s school system prioritize more hands-on work using real-life examples, like recipes, often before students are explicitly taught exactly how to figure out the answer.
"Becoming Eve" is based on the memoir of Abby Chava Stein, a trans woman from a prominent Hasidic family in Williamsburg who was trained from a young age to be a rabbi.
