April 2026

Two weeks ago, a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot with a handgun on a Queens playground during a water gun fight. This Monday, another 15-year-old boy was shot multiple times on the A train.  On Thursday, groups that work to curb teen gun violence gathered at a forum in Brooklyn to highlight the programs that […]

Two contractors robbed workers of hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages through kickbacks, forgery and wage theft as they renovated a playground in The Bronx, officials say. It took years for the city comptroller’s office and the Parks Department to claw back the money after an audit found that 24 workers on the Hunts

Here’s what brown can do for you: turn commuting on the country’s pokiest buses into even more of a slog. UPS trucks were flagged more than 25,000 times last year for obstructing New York City bus lanes, MTA data reveals. That’s nearly twice as many as Amazon, whose 12,975 violations ranked second. The images of

This is Borrow and Steal, a monthly interview series from our partners at Vital City profiling evidence-backed urban policy ideas from around the world and the practitioners who have translated them into reality. Sign up for their newsletter. New York City has a permitting problem. Businesses and developers can wait months to obtain approval to

New York’s first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice says her job is to grow the economy by delivering on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s agenda for helping those who need it the most. In: Affordable housing, free childcare and city-owned grocery stores.  Out: Billions in tax breaks and incentives to big developers and employers, unless they improve

Carl Wilson is on track to win the special election to the City Council district representing the West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of the west side of Manhattan on Tuesday, with a strong lead over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s choice for the seat. After one round of ranked-choice voting tabulations, Wilson led his

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday shot down a request by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin to change a tax credit to help fill a $5.4 billion city budget deficit. Mamdani and Menin had asked state lawmakers to authorize changes to the pass-through entity tax, or PTET, which allows some business people

At a recent press conference announcing a sweeping takedown of rival gangs notorious for their wild shootouts across public housing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch made the unsolicited point of praising the NYPD’s controversial gang database. “Yes we certainly did use the criminal group database as part of this investigation,” Tisch said, using

Which came first, the state budget or the city’s spending plan? https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?blend As the Mamdani administration pushes for new taxes and more money from Albany the FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more, including how sports and politics are getting mushed together first between the NBA Playoffs and the coming “Trump Station,” and

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In a major reversal, New York City schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is withdrawing controversial proposals to open the city’s first artificial intelligence-focused high school, close two middle schools, and relocate another. The plan to open Next Generation Technology High School as a selective school in downtown