New York Today

Federal agents inside of a Manhattan immigration court building on Wednesday made numerous arrests of migrants and observers including a pastor from Queens.   A reporter for THE CITY witnessed around two dozen masked officers, dressed in plainclothes, staking out the lobby of 26 Federal Plaza, where immigrants go for check-ins with ICE as well as […]

When Andrew Yang won endorsements from an array of Brooklyn-based Hasidic Jewish sects before the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary, his campaign, and multiple political insiders, touted that support as a possible game changer that could put him over the top in a tight election.  It was not enough.  Yang was trounced in the primary that

This article is adapted from our May 27 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Money isn’t everything. But it pays for a lot of important things, especially in the last few weeks of a campaign. Let’s check in on where the mayoral candidates stand

“It’s hard to be a human in New York but it’s downright dangerous to be a baby squirrel,” says Kyra Tippens-Richan, who spends her work days performing autopsies on animals and her off-hours caring for squirrels. https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?squirrely “I was in high school and I had a boyfriend at the time. I convinced him to come

The plan from Mets owner Steve Cohen to build a casino on the parking lot next to Citi Field cleared another hurdle Tuesday as the State Senate approved so-called parkland alienation, which allows for development on the site if it is selected for a gaming license.  The Queens project, dubbed Metropolitan Park, would turn the

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from cutting funding from the MTA and New York state over their repeated refusals to shut down congestion pricing. The ruling from the U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan federal court came one day before Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had warned that the

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters The Bronx high school student from Venezuela was trying to do everything right. Dylan, 20, fled his home country last year and turned himself in at the U.S. border in April 2024 through a Biden-era entry program. He requested asylum and was permitted

The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633.  Six years later, the Dutch and North African rabble-rouser, who’d become one of the largest landowners in what was then New Amsterdam, was banished to the hinterlands of Brooklyn for a litany of colorful misdeeds, including paying wages with a dead

On top of a co-op building in Flushing, Queens, on a stark gray afternoon, more than two dozen workers armed with brushes and rollers applied a white coat of paint across the black roof. “It’s really for it to keep the roofs cooler, and it also makes the whole building cooler as well,” said Domonique

With just weeks to go before early voting in the June primary for mayor, new campaign disclosures show the Democratic field’s fundraising coalescing around five candidates — with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo advancing a juggernaut and rivals amassing resources to stand out on the ranked-choice ballot. After a sputtering start, the disclosures filed Friday with