March 2025

In 1951, Frankie King of James Madison High was a Brooklyn legend, the youngest basketball player ever to make first-team all city before he withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling […]

New Yorkers will be voting for mayor with starkly divided views of their city’s needs and who they seek as a leader — the focus of a new survey that digs into what likely voters want.  Pollster John Della Volpe and his public opinion research firm SocialSphere surveyed 2,100 Democrats, Republicans and independents across the

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the City Council on Tuesday that she is taking two measures toward stronger discipline against officers who violate rules — including boosting penalties for misconduct that occurs during street stops. At a hearing on the department’s proposed budget of $6.1 billion for the fiscal year that begins July 1, Tisch

Lawyers representing Mahmoud Khalil, the recent Columbia graduate arrested by ICE this weekend  for his pro–Palestinian campus activism, will appear before federal District Court Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan Wednesday morning. Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian graduate student who served as a key negotiator for Columbia students demanding the university divest from companies that support Israel’s

The glass bottles that Annie Bassin uses to bottle her wellness beverage come from China and became 25% more expensive when President Donald Trump imposed a tariff during his first term. Now that he has added another 20% tariffs to goods coming from that country, Bassin sees little choice but to raise the price on

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As Principal Mark House greeted students at the John F. Kennedy campus in the Bronx last month, a student staggered toward him, face covered in blood. Initially, House thought the 16-year-old had been in an accident and started escorting him to the on-site health

The sirens from an ambulance woke up Sade Greene at the Lenox Terrace apartment complex at the beginning of the month. The bell had rang for her famous neighbor down the hall, 92-year-old Hazel “Ma” Dukes, who Greene recalled as a “great mother bear” always asking her about her family.  Dukes, the longtime civil-rights leader