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As state and local agencies grapple with the housing and mental health needs of unsheltered New Yorkers, internal city numbers obtained by THE CITY show long odds for getting a spot in apartments designed to support people who need psychiatric or substance use treatment.  Out of 955 people who were living on the streets and […]

In a video that has made international headlines, a group of  guards at Marcy prison upstate, some with smiles, punch and kick a handcuffed prisoner who died seven hours later.  For many formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, the scene of a handcuffed Robert Brooks, 43, being beaten by a team of state prison correction officers while

Even as licensed “dollar vans” all but vanish from city streets, unregulated commuter carriers remain obstacles to MTA buses in parts of Brooklyn and Queens. The number of Taxi and Limousine Commission–affiliated commuter vans in service has shrunk by 93% since 2015, TLC data shows, with just 39 such vehicles still licensed to operate as

Federal law enforcement officials raided the home of former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey on Thursday, as well as other locations, according to police commissioner Jessica Tisch. Tisch posted a statement to X Thursday morning that said Maddrey has been suspended, following allegations by a female subordinate that he coerced sexual favors from her

In the weeks before a raging fire killed journalist Fazil Khan, tenants throughout his building complained to the landlord that men living in the unit where the fire broke out had been routinely charging e-bike batteries inside their apartment, an investigation by THE CITY has found. One former tenant of the six-story building at 2

Nicole Gelinas, the author of Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car, explains why she opens her epic account with the mayors who fought against the street-car system that once transported New Yorkers a billion times a year. https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?movementcongestion From there, Gelinas talks with editors Ben Max of New

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Tayden Townsley, 47, hopes this is the final holiday season he spends behind bars.   Townsley was 19 years old when he fatally shot a 16-year-old member of a rival drug gang and wounded another in a Sullivan County apartment on July 1, 1994.  He was sentenced to 37 and a half years to life for

The mayor’s right-hand woman was in cuffs, while Adams was taking part in a ridiculous perp walk that played out more like a glamor shot for a murderer. Hizzoner’s friend and ally in the NYPD, who Adams has gone to bat for again and again over charges of abusing his authority, resigned after being accused

Migrant parents and children on a recent morning lugged suitcases across the wind-swept tarmac to the Q35 bus stop outside the remote Floyd Bennett Field tent complex, beginning a two-hour trek to the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where families can seek a new shelter placement. Some of the families who have already moved out