Articles in the “news” category

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a Green New Deal for NYC at a press conference in Long Island City on Monday. (Jake Dobkin/Gothamist) New York City will get its own Green New Deal, Mayor and rumored...

The war between man and machine is heating up, and this time it has nothing to do with Mister Softee. In the last few days, an unidentified vandal and/or Blade Runner has smashed at least 30 LinkNYC...

Clare Bronfman, left, leaves federal court, in Brooklyn. (Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock) Nxivm founder Keith Raniere's last two co-defendants have pleaded guilty, leaving the alleged sex cult leader to stand trial alone. On Friday, Seagrams heiress Clare Bronfman,...

NYPD officers issue tickets to cyclists for lacking bells, and confiscate their bikes (screenshot from video by Barbara Ross) For six years, bike messenger Shardy Nieves, 38, has organized the 4/20 Race and Bake relay bike...

The Bushwick Houses (Google Maps) A pregnant woman was killed and her friend was repeatedly stabbed early Saturday in a Brooklyn public housing complex, and police said both women were attacked by an ax-wielding suspect. The...

The MTA conductor is now in stable condition, authorities said (Courtesy of 'Progressive Action') Police have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly stabbing an MTA conductor multiple times in the Bronx this weekend. The incident occurred...

Mayor Bill de Blasio attends and delivers remarks at the NYPD graduation. Madison Square Garden. Thursday, March 30, 2017. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office) Prosecutors in all five boroughs of New York City are quietly building internal...

Photograph by bzumba / Flickr A 21-year-old woman was killed after she was dragged by a subway car onto the tracks and fatally struck by the train in Manhattan early Saturday. The incident happened around 3...

A supermarket shopper in Long Beach with a reusable bag. (WNYC) What will consumers do to save a nickel or two? To find out, Suffolk County and the Nassau County town of Long Beach have been...

(Shutterstock) An off-duty correction officer was arrested this morning after drunkenly crashing his jeep into half a dozen parked cars, attempting to flee, and then soiling himself. Officer Brandon Dauo, 28, now faces a slew of...

(Shutterstock) Less than a month after state lawmakers agreed to ban most single-use plastic bags, the City Council has voted to adopt a five-cent fee on all paper bags given to consumers at supermarkets and other...

The Key Food on 5th Avenue, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. (Paula Mejía/Gothamist) For the last 40 years, Elaine Condengio has worked as a meat wrapper at the Key Food grocery store in Floral Park, Long Island....

Happy Easter! (Gothamist) The MTA is raising fares this weekend, again, despite Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign pledge not to hike rates until the subway got its act together (it has not). Starting on Sunday, the price...

Police Commissioner James O'Neill in Queens on Monday, October 22, 2018. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) A group of elected officials are demanding that the Department of Investigation look into allegations that NYPD Vice cops are assaulting...

(Charles Eckert/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Court documents filed by Chanel Lewis's defense team claim that at least three members of the jury who voted to convict the 22-year-old for murder and sexual abuse earlier this month acted improperly. Lewis...

City Council members Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson announced new legislation to help inform low-income tenants about their right to a free attorney in housing court. (Elizabeth Kim/Gothamist) Two years following the passage of a landmark...

The firearm allegedly recovered from the suspect. (NYPD) A plainclothes police officer is wounded and an armed suspect is dead following a chaotic shootout in Washington Heights on Thursday afternoon. According to the NYPD, the incident...

Marc Lamparello being escorted from the Midtown North police precinct (Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock) The man arrested for bringing cans of gasoline, lighter fluid, and butane lighters to St. Patrick's Cathedral is a philosophy PhD student at CUNY,...

Anti-vaccination activists attend a court hearing in Brooklyn. (Gwynne Hogan/WNYC) The New York City Department of Health closed four yeshivas and issued summonses to three Brooklyn parents whose children were exposed to measles but still not...

(Helmut Meyer Zur Capellen/imageBROKER/Shutterstock) A 7-year-old boy was killed on Wednesday after stepping off a school bus just a few blocks from his home in Far Rockaway, Queens. According to police, Cameron Brown was crossing Gipson...

Flickr user Stephen Sandoval As state lawmakers mull a series of rent reform bills to stem the growing affordability crisis, rents across the city climbed to record highs, reflecting a strong economy and more New Yorkers...

A storm's a-brewin' (Chris Goldberg's Flickr) I hope your weekend plans leave room for cataclysmic weather, because the forecast is in and with it comes a second helping of the wild and windy storms that battered...

Environmental justice groups convened a rally outside City Hall on Thursday, ahead of the council's passage of building emission regulations. (Jake Dobkin/Gothamist) The City Council has passed a long-awaited measure aimed at reducing buildings' greenhouse gas...

(Google Maps) A 26-year-old cyclist was killed in Brooklyn on Wednesday after he was struck by the driver of a passing truck—and once again, police seem to be blaming the victim for their own death. Pedro...

(Stephen Nessen / Gothamist / WNYC) When WNYC and Gothamist put out a survey a few weeks ago asking people to describe their commuting experiences, one question that several people posed boiled down to this: Can...

The measles vaccine, typically combined with the rubella and mumps vaccines. (Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock) An Israeli flight attendant who contracted measles has been comatose for over a week following a flight from New York City to Tel...

(Stefan Georgi / Flickr) The idea of charging drivers to drive on Manhattan’s busiest streets to ease traffic congestion has been talked about by politicians going back to the Lindsay administration in the 1960s. But it...

(a.tanski/flickr) A New York Supreme Court Judge has struck down recent state guidelines meant to improve the quality of secular education in yeshivas and other private schools. The decision concerns a set of State Education Department...

Immigration lawyers Joshua Bardavid (left) and Robert Martinez object to having government lawyers appear by video because it’s too difficult to travel across Lower Manhattan to new immigration courtrooms on Varick Street. (Beth Fertig / Gothamist...

These mannequins are raising money for Notre Dame now, thanks. (Courtesy of Rich Eldert) The racy disco scene a dentist constructed on his office lawn has polarized the Clifton, New Jersey community. Advocates for freedom of...

Scott Lynch/Gothamist ICE agents can no longer arrest immigrants in New York courthouses without a judicial warrant or court order, according to new rules promulgated by the New York State Office of Court Administration. The guidelines,...

Mayor Bill de Blasio launching the new Lower East Side ferry route (NYC Mayor Flickr) On Wednesday afternoon, members of the Economic Development Corporation—the quasi-public agency that runs NYC Ferry alongside private operator Hornblower—were called to...

Judith Clark when she was taken into custody in 1981 (David Handschuh/AP/Shutterstock) Judith Clark, the getaway driver in a 1981 botched Brinks truck robbery in Nyack, New York that left two police officers and a Brink's...

St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue (Richard Drew/AP/Shutterstock) A man was arrested last night in Midtown Manhattan after he tried to bring two gallon cans of gasoline, lighter fluid, and extended butane lighters into St. Patrick's...

A smattering of the many illicit substances authorities found in the bust. (Manhattan District Attorney's Office) The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has charged three men with being involved in a dark web-enabled drug scheme, confiscating hundreds...

Rendering of the proposed Crown Heights apartment buildings, on either side of the existing Tivoli Towers (Cornell and Carmel Partners) A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge has temporarily blocked a plan to build two 16-story rental buildings...

Over 60 protesters were arrested at a climate change demonstration near City Hall this morning. Organized by Extinction Rebellion, an international protest movement demanding dramatic action on climate change, today’s action kicked off a planned “Week of...

(Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock) New York City’s Board of Health has unanimously voted to uphold the Health Department’s emergency order announced last week that requires everyone in four Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant zip codes to be vaccinated for measles....

Outside P.S. 199 Middle School on the Upper West Side (Jen Chung / Gothamist) New initiatives to desegregate the city’s middle schools are making headway in pilot districts in Park Slope and on the Upper West...

View from Hudson Yards of Billionaires' Row. (Photo by Jen Chung) Rent regulations are considered a birthright by New Yorkers, and increasingly popular in Albany as well, where a slew of new bills are considering expanding...

Mayor Bill de Blasio speaking at the NYPD's graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden (Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock) New York City taxpayers are stuck with a $230 million bill for the thousands of lawsuits against the NYPD that...

Attorney Alan Dershowitz. (Frank Franklin II/AP/Shutterstock) A defamation lawsuit filed against attorney Alan Dershowitz has surfaced fresh allegations against Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire pedophile accused of sex trafficking dozens of minors. According to court documents, Dershowitz...

(Charles Eckert/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) The sentencing for Chanel Lewis, the Brooklyn man who was convicted earlier this month of murdering Karina Vetrano in a remote Queens park, was postponed until next week pending a hearing on juror misconduct....

Governor Andrew Cuomo with director/actor Ben Stiller in January. "The Governor stood by the film and television industry over the last eight years, in supporting tax breaks and creating a lot of jobs, hundreds of thousands...

(FDNY) A huge four-alarm fire ripped through businesses in Marine Park, Brooklyn this morning, and firefighters are still at the scene trying to get the blaze under control. [Update: The five-alarm fire was under control by...

RUN. (Manchester Police/Facebook) We've witnessed some fairly bonkers weather events these past few days: A Sunday that shuttled back and forth between sun and clouds before finally giving way to very loud and very windy rain...

(Gothamist) The MTA is plowing ahead with its promised crackdown on fare beaters—though police won't say who, exactly, they are targeting. According to an NYPD spokesperson, a total of 21,112 summonses were issued to fare beaters...

What if our Russian Doll timeline is just a loop of Squibb Bridge being built and rebuilt over and over again? The pedestrian bridge was first erected back in 2013, and connected Columbia Heights to Brooklyn Bridge...

(MTA) Back in January, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the L train wouldn't need to be completely shut down for 15 months between Brooklyn and Manhattan—the Sandy-related repairs on the tunnel could be done with the...

The intersection of Saint Nicholas Avenue and West 190th Street, where the collision Tuesday morning happened. (Google Maps) An early Tuesday morning car crash in Washington Heights left the driver in critical condition and her passenger...

One of the units at a complex of three buildings in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens that was advertised on Airbnb (Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Legal Services) In what appears to be a gross exploitation of the home-sharing industry,...

via GoFundMe The New Jersey woman who helped engineer the GoFundMe grift pleaded guilty to second-degree theft by deception on Monday, admitting to having helped weave a lucrative web of lies for her own financial gain....

The yeshiva shuttered by the Health Department on Ross Street in Williamsburg (Google Maps) Amidst an ongoing measles outbreak, city officials forced a Williamsburg Yeshiva to close after they repeatedly tried and failed to get access...

A brand spankin' new Citi Bike station at White Street and Moore Street (Courtesy of Chris O'Leary) For much of the last two years, Brooklyn's cyclist community has worked alongside the Department of Transportation on strategies...

They're baaaaaaaaack. (Courtesy of Rich Eldert) Not one to be constrained by the Opinions of others, New Jersey dentist Wayne Gangi has rebuilt his now-world-famous* lawn display—with even more sexy mannequins this time because screw you,...

(New York Underworld / Flickr) Long before Amazon backpedaled on plans to plant a second headquarters in Queens, another rising real estate player hoped to land the trillion dollar corporation on its home turf. It was...

(Shutterstock) A Brooklyn public school teacher was arrested on Monday, and authorities say he was sexually abusing a student. Daniel Santiago, a teacher at PS 244 in East Flatbush, was charged with first-degree sexual abuse and...

(Marianne O'Leary / Flickr) An unidentified person was struck and killed by an L train in Manhattan this evening, according to the MTA. The incident happened at the 1st Avenue L stop shortly before 5:30 p.m.,...

The museum's gala space in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life (Andrew H. Walker/WWD/Shutterstock) The American Museum of Natural History will no longer host a gala honoring Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, following several days of...

Portia Ravenelle and Orlando Moore. (via) After dredging a rental car from the Caribbean Sea on Friday, police in the Dominican Republic are solidifying theories about the death of a Westchester couple who disappeared on their...

Del Bigtree seen here giving a speech on the alleged dangers of vaccinations in March. (YouTube) First, signs went up around Williamsburg in synagogues and grocery stores and on street corners, advertising an international conference call...

Photograph of raccoons in the park by Edgar Zuniga Jr. / Flickr New York City has long had a fraught relationship with raccoons, particularly those foaming at the mouth. Instead of euthanizing hundreds of the garbage...

Alexander McNab surrounded by several campus security officers (Facebook) Barnard College has placed half a dozen campus safety officers on administrative leave, after video surfaced this weekend showing them pinning a black student to a countertop...

The Alexander at 306 West 94th Street. (Elizabeth Kim/Gothamist) T. Campbell was walking home on the Upper West Side earlier this year when she encountered two reporters for the New York Post. They wanted to know...

Yemeni-owned bodegas and delis across NYC have dropped the NY Post over its inflammatory Ilhan Omar cover. (Rabyaah Althaibani/Twitter) Bodega owners across the city have dropped the NY Post from newsstands over an inflammatory cover it...

It's Monday, and it is wet, which means a not insignificant chunk of the subway system is having a meltdown. This morning's luckless straphangers included those traveling into Manhattan on the A, C, E trains between the...

Mayor Bill de Blasio announcing the emergency vaccination order last week. (Gwynne Hogan / Gothamist / WNYC) Attorneys for parents of five unvaccinated children in Brooklyn have filed a lawsuit against the city’s Health Department, calling...

Inspired by the senseless murder of Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle, hundreds of current and former gang members joined anti-violence activists in the South Bronx on Sunday to march for peace. "This right here is a...

(Courtesy Citi Bike) Citi Bike has indefinitely pulled its beloved pedal-assist e-bikes bikes from service, following reports that a "stronger than expected braking force on the front wheel" had launched some riders over the bikes' handlebars....

Keating Hall at Fordham University (Facebook) A 22-year-old senior at Fordham University died from injuries sustained in a 40 foot fall from the school's Bronx campus clock tower. Sydney Monfries and friends had apparently been in...

It’s no secret: New York’s transportation system is in rough shape. Whether we get around by bike, bus, car, ferry, train or really anything else — except maybe a helicopter — our days often begin and...

(Shutterstock) A 34-year-old construction worker was killed at the site of an under-construction luxury apartment building on Saturday. Around 3:15 a.m., police responded to a 911 call about a man who was struck by an object...

(Shutterstock) The Transit Workers Union is concerned a "serial attacker" may be targeting female transit employees, after two workers—a subway conductor and a bus driver—were attacked in different incidents on Friday. The incidents about 15 blocks...

An exhibition maintenance manager vacuums the museum's 94-foot-long blue whale model. (Richard Drew/AP/Shutterstock) The American Museum of Natural History is facing an internal insurrection — and the threat of staff resignations and boycotts — over its...

Mychaila Parker (left) and Qwallique Mack were among the Veritas Academy students handing out stickers to those who voted in the school’s participatory budgeting process this Monday. (Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report) On Monday, Katherine Pineda-Briceno was...

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams presides over Tuesday's Council Stated meeting as it votes to approve his Marijuana Justice legislation. (Photo by John McCarten, NYC Council) As a sign of a sea change in attitude toward marijuana...

(NYPD) The driver who allegedly ran over a teenage girl in Brooklyn last month — and who was then caught on camera inspecting the injured victim, before getting back in her car and fleeing — has...

(NYPD) The NYPD is searching for two men who stole a delivery man's e-bike—along with his food delivery order—in Brooklyn last month. The incident took place at around 2:45 p.m. on March 28th, in Bay Ridge....

(Photo by Sophie Vershbow) Just last year, a giant pink billboard went up in Times Square instructing women to "just have [a lollipop]" when your body desires life-fueling food. The billboard was for Flat Tummy Lollipops,...

A pro-Airbnb rally outside City Hall in October 2015. (Getty) As Airbnb fends off crackdown efforts by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council, two state lawmakers are pushing a bill that would create laws...

The museum's gala space in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life (Andrew H. Walker/WWD/Shutterstock) Each year, leaders of the international business and finance community gather in the American Museum of Natural History for a black-tie gala...