With the Long Island Rail Road on the brink of its first strike in more than 30 years, Gov. Kathy Hochul warned Wednesday that the MTA and riders on the country’s largest commuter railroad “have to be ...

Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. Demolition might conjure images of bulldozers, sledgehammers and wrecking balls slamming into structures that ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani dropped his threat to hike property taxes as a way to close the budget gap after Gov. Kathy Hochul promised additional aid for his $124.5 billion spending plan. The city budget ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first executive budget proposal pulls off what seems to be a fiscal miracle by closing what in December was projected to be a huge $12 billion budget gap without raising ...

A month before the first World Cup soccer match takes place at Met Life Stadium across the Hudson River, only 25% of the available rooms in New York City hotels have been booked for the six weeks when ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced a $268 billion state budget deal but the state assembly speaker shot back, saying there was no agreement. But Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie later told reporters ...

In a video obtained by THE CITY, an ICE agent appears to fire a taser several times at a man in a car who then screams for help. The Department of Homeland Security, however, says the man was not ...

Fifteen home health aides started what they called an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday after the City Council failed to advance a bill banning 24-hour shifts, an issue that has roiled the mostly ...

More than half of all state workers stand to benefit from rolling back the controversial cost-cutting measures enacted in 2012. That includes more than a third of current state legislators. Sweeping ...

Sometimes change happens fast — last month, just making inquiries into why a city warming center had become a de facto homeless shelter had officials leaping to action before we could even publish — ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested 811 immigrants in New York City since August who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of these “collateral” arrests — as the ...

The New York City Council on Thursday passed a pair of bills aimed at targeting hate across the city by creating “security perimeters” for protests around houses of worship and schools. The bill ...