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City Comptroller Mark Levine on Wednesday launched a comprehensive audit of nearly a quarter-billion dollars in no-bid migrant shelter contracts the city awarded to a non-profit group called BHRAGS Home Care whose leaders have been indicted on corruption charges. The group’s former president, Ronald Tirelus, and its former executive director, Roberto Samedy, were hit with

With smoke traveling in from wildfires burning in Minnesota and Ontario, New York is due for a week of hazy skies and possibly poorer air quality. When smoke from Canadian wildfires engulfed the city in June 2023, the boroughs turned suddenly orange, with air quality indices reaching 484 — the highest ever recorded. It may

Elena Zerkal isn’t shy about tooting her own horn over the 11 years she spent behind the wheel as a for-hire vehicle driver. “Five-star ratings, professional, I never had any problems,” she said. “Best ratings, best customer service review, everything.” But the former Lyft driver says that track record didn’t spare her from being “dumped

More than 500 cooling towers across Manhattan are not in compliance with city regulations requiring monthly water sample tests to help combat the spread of the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria, records examined by The City Reporter show. All told there are 568 towers that records show haven’t submitted required tests to the Department of Health

A line meant to bring hydropower from Canada to New York City has been out of service for 10 days with no end in sight as another heat wave sets in. The Champlain Hudson Power Express, a project that runs more than 300 miles below land and bodies of water from Québec to Astoria, can

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City officials are expanding a slew of the city’s highest-demand special education programs into preschool classrooms for the first time, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. The expansion this fall is meant to help address the city’s longstanding failure to provide classroom seats

Summer’s high temperatures often bring electric bills to match — and this year New Yorkers are feeling the burn. The air conditioners keeping you cool guzzle electricity, which tends to cost more as demand spikes. Heat waves like the one New York City experienced in early July drive that demand and make your ACs work

Thousands more public school students will receive free swim lessons next year under new City Council funding, part of a long-term effort to teach every second grader in New York City how to swim. The Council has allocated $1.5 million to the nonprofit group Wave Makers, which was first launched more than two years ago

New York will impose a yearlong moratorium on new energy-intensive data centers, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday — the first such ban in the country as officials scrutinize the burgeoning sites’ impact on local environments. Under an executive order, the state will not grant environmental permits for data centers of at least 50 megawatts for