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Ida Aid Coming for Undocumented Immigrants Via Newly Launched New York Fund
Hochul comes to Queens Monday to announce $27 million in cash assistance for flooding victims excluded from FEMA help — including many still rebuilding their homes just blocks from where the governor will speak.
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After NYC Jail Officials Ignored Suicide Prevention Plan, Five Detainees Took Their Own Lives
A federal monitor’s latest damning dispatch landed as local members of Congress called on President Biden to stem the chaos at Rikers Island. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio promised to visit the beleaguered jail for the first time in four years.
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The Deliveristas’ Long Journey to Justice
The City Council led the nation Sept. 23 by passing a set of bills to ensure bathroom access, minimum pay and more for the app-based delivery workers who kept New Yorkers fed during the pandemic. Here’s what you to know about the Deliveristas’ ongoing journey.
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Homeless Youth Would Get an Easier Path to Housing Help, Under City Council Bill
New Yorkers in youth homeless shelters would finally get credit for time spent there instead of having to enter the chaotic and dangerous adult system to receive housing vouchers.
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NYC School Safety Agent Shortage Looms as Vaccination Mandate Deadline Nears
Hundreds, if not thousands of guards could come off the payroll for refusing to get their shots — putting student safety in jeopardy, principals say. Meanwhile, 10,000 teachers have yet to upload proof of vaccination, according to education officials.
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NYC Schools Brace for Up to 10,000 Missing Teachers as Vaccine Mandate Takes Effect
As the vaccine mandate for New York City teachers is set to take effect next week, schools are bracing for this Tuesday when thousands of educators might be barred from their classrooms.
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Staten Island Borough President Favorite Fossella Flubs Candidate Ethics Test
Ex-Rep. Vito Fossella has been barred from collecting up to $325,000 in public matching dollars after failing to disclose his company’s business dealings with city and state. The Trump-backed candidate’s comeback campaign is running in the red.
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New York City Passes Landmark New Protections for Food Delivery Workers
The Deliveristas who kept New Yorkers fed during the pandemic will get bathroom access, minimum delivery payments and the tips they earned, under bills approved Thursday by the City Council. Supporters hope the first-of-their-kind regulations will become a national model.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Tower Neighbor — and Its Shadows — Nixed By City Planning Board
Unusual, unanimous ‘no’ vote on Franklin Ave. development project spells end for a 34-story high rise plan. But the developer is suing to get an alternative approved — and says it can just build condos regardless.
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MTA on ‘Mask Blitz’ Following Reports of Low Compliance
Cops and transit workers distributed a record 26,000 masks in the transit system in the first three weeks of this month — rocketing past the total for the entire past year. Starting Thursday, riders who do not follow the mask mandate will be more likely to face fines, officials said.
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Gowanus Redevelopment Gets Go-Ahead as de Blasio’s Team Sails Away
The City Planning Commission okayed plans to rezone the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood and bring new affordable housing, sending the City Hall-initiated plan to the City Council. Meanwhile, the mayor’s path to revamping SoHo is less clear.
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Hours of NYC Schools’ COVID Rapid-Response Team Slashed: ‘They’re Overwhelmed’
The Situation Room, a collaboration of city education and health officials and contact tracers, closes at 3:30 p.m. That’s led to delays in getting orders to quarantine classrooms, critics say.
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A Young Black Mother Died During Treatment for Postpartum Depression. Her Family Demands Answers
Denise Williams went to Queens Hospital Center last month. Her family found out 48 hours later that the 29-year-old mother of two had died at the city-run hospital. They still don’t know why.
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NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
De Blasio supports first-in-the-nation bills scheduled for Thursday vote, seeking better working conditions in the booming tech-driven food courier economy. The City Council’s actions come as app firms sue to block bills it passed previously.
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Hochul Shows Shades of Green, Offering Hope She’ll Kill Queens Fossil Fuel Plant
The governor threw her support behind the creation of two electricity transmission lines that would bring clean energy into the city. That suggests to environmentalists that she’ll kill plans for a gas-powered "peaker" plant in Astoria. But Hochul’s not saying...
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Google Won’t Take Office Building Tax Breaks That Amazon Searched For
The online search giant, which announced plans Tuesday to open a massive Manhattan headquarters, is forgoing the benefits Amazon sought to reap for its ill-fated Long Island City headquarters, THE CITY has learned.
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Jackson Heights Tenants Sue to Get Their Burned Out Building Back — and Get Back In
Many survivors of an eight-alarm fire are still barred from even retrieving their possessions. They’re in court now demanding swift action to make their apartments habitable again.
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How New York Went From Cuomo to Hochul
On Aug. 3, State Attorney General Letitia James released a report detailing multiple sexually harassment allegations Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Three weeks later, Kathy Hochul became the first woman to lead the state. Here’s what you need to know.
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Barry The Owl Was Poisoned Before Central Park Truck Hit Her
The beloved barred owl who died last month in Central Park, had a potentially lethal level of rat poison that could have impaired her flying abilities before her crash, according to a state necropsy obtained by THE CITY.