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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Five new schools are expected to open this fall in The Bronx and Queens: Two will exclusively serve students with significant disabilities, three will have an arts focus, and all promise to incorporate project-based learning. The new schools aim to ease […]

New Yorkers who use the city’s Fair Fares program to ride buses, trains and Access-a-Ride are still struggling to afford transit despite receiving half-off on fares, according to a new analysis. Fair Fares is a city-run program that reduces the cost of transit rides by half for adults under 65 who make less than $23,940

The city’s main voucher program, CityFHEPS, has been a lifeline for many homeless New Yorkers who have secured permanent homes with the rental subsidy. But a broad swath of people in New York’s shelters are not eligible, cutting them off from a key avenue out of homelessness, according to data from two major local shelter

Zohran Mamdani’s first political endorsement since becoming mayor predictably didn’t pan out, but Lindsey Boylan wasn’t the candidate he’s betting his political capital on.  https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?roulette The FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more, including why bringiing casinos to New York is such a terrible idea, what’s so good about bodega cats and bad

An ICE agent tased a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams in pain and begs for help, as captured in a video obtained by THE CITY. It appears to be the same man who ICE agents later took to Wyckoff Heights Medical

Jin Tao Wu has survived Japan’s invasion of China, the rise of the Communist Party and the massacres of the Cultural Revolution.  Now, thousands of miles and many decades later, the 93-year-old sits in a beige-walled public housing apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, confronting what he sees as the biggest crisis of his life. The

One detainee was found dead with 66 pills in his cell. Another lay in distress for five minutes during an apparent overdose before staff administered Narcan. A third was left locked in his cell, unsupervised, for nearly half an hour as he spiraled into a medical crisis. Those were some of the damning findings outlined

Hundreds of case workers, career coaches and housing specialists at two prominent nonprofits serving recently incarcerated people announced they plan to unionize on Friday morning, May Day, looking to join the ranks of scores of workers in the education and social services sector who’ve organized in recent years. Approximately 600 employees at the Fortune Society

They want to curb your dog. The New York City Council on Thursday introduced a package of bills aimed at helping the scourge of dog poop that intensified during weeks of feces-strewn snow piles this winter. The four bills, which will have hearings in the coming weeks, focused on both outreach and other ways to

This article was originally published by Healthbeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health published by Civic News Company and KFF Health News. The New York City Council on Thursday passed a package of bills seeking to do more to educate parents about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines as immunization rates show signs of starting