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Mayor Eric Adams presented his fourth and possibly final State of the City address Thursday in Harlem, sharing a vision — but scant details on how — to make it easier to raise a family in the five boroughs.  As he walked out on stage at the Apollo Theater, the mayor rubbed the famous Tree […]

The explosive, deadly fire that broke out in a Harlem apartment building early last year followed pointed warnings to city government agencies about fire dangers related to a proliferation of e-bikes stored there — yet no investigation. Two weeks earlier, the city’s 311 system had received two alerts about bikes chained to a fence outside

The New York City Board of Elections rejected the government integrity watchdog’s  recommendation to remove its executive director following an investigation that found he had repeatedly subjected two female staffers to racially biased and sexually inappropriate comments. The board instead said it would suspend Executive Director Michael Ryan for three weeks without pay, require him

Mayor Eric Adams will present his fourth State of the City speech Thursday at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, attempting to highlight his administration’s wins even as he faces a federal corruption trial.  As he’s teased over the last few weeks, Adams is expected to focus on public safety and housing affordability, as he

Just south of Brooklyn Bridge Park, six cranes dot the waterfront. Just one of them is in service, bringing in around 90,000 containers per year that come to Red Hook’s port — mostly food from Latin America and the Caribbean. Of the five other cranes at Brooklyn Marine Terminal, two sit on condemned, crumbling piers.

A longtime associate of Mayor Eric Adams who oversees city leases installed a real estate broker with close personal ties to himself and another top Adams aide to advise the city on municipal leases, a position that would generate millions of dollars in commissions for their friend, a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges. Jesse Hamilton, a

A behind-the-scenes Department of Investigation probe documented evidence that the white male director of the city’s election board routinely made racially insensitive and sexually suggestive remarks to two top-level minority female staffers, prompting the independent watchdog agency to recommend that he resign, THE CITY has learned. Michael Ryan, executive director of the Board of Elections,

On the first weekday of NYC’s new congestion-pricing era that’s already being threatened by the incoming Trump administration, Jose Martinez, THE CITY’s senior reporter covering transportation, offers some perspective on what this means for the trains and streets inside the zone and throughout the five boroughs: https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?congestion “Politicians use the words historical a lot, but

Second time’s the charm?  The city Economic Development Corporation has selected 8th Regiment Partners LLC, a joint venture between real estate firm Maddd Equities LLC and Joy Construction Corporation, to develop the 570,000 sq. ft. Kingsbridge Armory, the public-benefit corporation told THE CITY on Monday.  Dubbed “El Centro Kingsbridge,” the repurposed century-old armory will include

As New York became the first U.S. city to toll drivers entering a “congestion relief zone” over the weekend, some Manhattan motorists elected to spin their wheels to avoid paying the 60th Street-and-south charge. Steven Guerrero, 29, said he circled the Upper West Side for “about 10, 15 minutes” to avoid paying a peak-hours $9