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We could create permanent affordable housing on Ward’s Island. There is a lot of unused space that’s occupied by an under-censused hospital. It is public land, so it would cost money to build but we wouldn’t have to buy the land. The housing could be affordable, and it could be mixed for formerly homeless people […]

City health officials are advising residents of an East Village apartment complex owned by the Archdiocese of New York to take precautions after two residents contracted Legionnaires’ disease there within the last 11 months. The advisory went out Tuesday in a Zoom call arranged by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in which

This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. Jessica Bonamusa’s mind is in the water, and where the gutter meets the shore. Bonamusa, a research scientist at New York City’s Department of

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation into whether the corporate landlord of an Inwood apartment building where multiple tenants died in a fatal May 4 fire is criminally liable for conditions that possibly played a role in the deadly conflagration, THE CITY has learned. Days before the fire, city housing inspectors had

City Council Speaker Julie Menin is preparing to re-introduce a limited version of a controversial bill that would establish anti-protest “buffer zones” around schools, opting not to try an override of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s veto of an earlier bill. Menin’s new bill would direct the NYPD to plan protest buffer zones for public and private

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The number of New York City families receiving offers to public preschool programs remained flat this year, despite a major push from Mayor Zohran Mamdani to increase outreach and expand the program. A total of 99,921 students received an offer for

The City Council will reintroduce a bill banning the sale of birds at pet stores across New York after a fledgling attempt last year didn’t get off the ground. Councilmember Harvey Epstein, a Democrat from Manhattan, will introduce the bill that would prohibit the sale of some birds in pet shops. These include non-poultry birds

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A Hondruan man was arrested after a hearing inside 26 Federal Plaza a day after a judge barred most arrests inside New York City immigration courts.  Court observers and advocates were shocked Tuesday morning after a 21-year-old Honduran man was taken by masked ICE agents after he left a routine hearing Tuesday morning on the

A 40-year-old Rikers Island detainee died Tuesday morning, marking the second death in city jail custody in less than 24 hours, THE CITY has learned. The detainee, who was arrested May 5 and was awaiting trial on felony robbery and narcotics charges, has not yet been publicly identified because authorities are still notifying family members.