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The parents of a teenager who tumbled to his death from a breakaway horse carriage in Central Park last month will this week plead with the City Council to banish the tourist trade from the park. A Wednesday hearing on the future of horse-drawn rides that have been Central Park fixtures since the 1860s follows […]

Some people are always going to have a bad-faith reaction to this mayor… Instead of “look at this online map that he made an error on,” it’s “he’s a communist who wants to take over our city, and this is just the beginning.” https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?mapterritory Mayor Mamdani this week blamed the previous administration for a map

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Of Staten Island Technical High School’s nearly 300 offers, just one went to a Black student. At Stuyvesant, that number was three — the lowest number since at least 2014, which is as far back as the city’s public data goes. And at the High School

ICE has been holding a child in an ICE detention center meant for adults for nearly two months due to a clerical error, the boy’s attorneys allege in a federal lawsuit filed in May.  Federal Judge Marilyn J. Horan in Pennsylvania on Thursday ordered ICE to transfer the individual, known as A.D. in legal filings,

Situated in prime Midtown locations near Grand Central, the boutique Fitzpatrick hotels were perfectly positioned to take advantage of a surge of tourists flooding into New York for the World Cup. But with seven of the eight World Cup matches to be played at MetLife Stadium across the Hudson completed, revenue increased only about 15%

The City Council will vote this week on a bill to boost underpaid para-professionals in the city school system with a $10,000 payment that’s separate from their negotiated salary – even though it sparked concerns from the mayor’s office over whether it’s legal. The bill, which was re-introduced in February by Councilmember Carmen De La

“Would they cheer so loudly if it was a white kid shot? I don’t think so. Would he have shot four white kids? I don’t think so.…  Is there a racial edge to this? That’s all there is. Somebody asked me, ‘Is it beneath the surface a racial thing?’ Beneath the surface?! I mean, it’s

Diana Ruiz Cabrera was several hours into her shift at the massive office-to-residential conversion at the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown in mid-February when she slipped from a step ladder and fell on her back about five feet below, tearing several ligaments in her ankle in the process. She left the structure in tears, descending

The nearly-Olympic-sized Red Hook Pool in Brooklyn can hold more than 4,400 people, but only one would-be bather turned out for a meeting Thursday night where Parks officials explained why the neighborhood’s summer lifeline has failed to open on time.  “This is not something you can foresee — this building is 90 years old, and

Two years ago, Jessica Kaplan had about three months to move her entire theatrical scenery shop. The building where Sightline Fabrication had operated since 2008 had been sold, she said, and the landlord needed Kaplan and her partner out. In a frenzy to find a new place, Kaplan toured 30 alternative spaces, but none were