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Local lawmakers called for the city and state to compensate hungry New Yorkers who have had their SNAP benefits stolen after an article in The City Reporter detailed the prevalence of the food benefits scheme.  Citing The City Reporter’s article, legislators noted how California had successfully reduced the crime and demanded information on what the […]

City officials received complaints about unsafe conditions at the Midtown tower at risk of collapse as far back as spring of 2025, The City Reporter has learned, as officials scramble to secure the area spanning a busy stretch of Manhattan near Grand Central Station. The office tower at 235 E. 42nd Street was undergoing construction

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Student OMNY cards are going digital this fall, at least for some New York City students, Chalkbeat has learned. New York City’s Education Department is launching a pilot program for virtual student OMNY cards at seven schools, officials confirmed on Monday. Officials declined to

This story was produced as part of a collaboration between The City Reporter and MindSite News, the nation’s only nonprofit news outlet focused on mental health. Sign up for the MindSite News Daily newsletter here. Genaro watched as four police officers crowded out of the elevator, their boots thudding through the narrow hallway of the

For the Netflix children’s animation “Team Hot Wheels,” Brandon V. Fletcher, 45, drafted storyboards, synced scripts and painstakingly drew the show’s four mischievous heroes’ antics frame by frame.  But when his company, Noggin, a children’s streaming service, was acquired by Paramount in 2024, Fletcher lost his senior animator job, alongside all 200 of his coworkers.

When Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to set their air conditioners to 78 degrees, echoing what mayors before him have advised during heat waves for decades, his critics again lost their minds. https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?heat Hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel talk with Alex Brook Lynn, FAQ NYC’s original producer calling in from Paris, about heat waves,

The number of empty, rent-stabilized apartments is on the rise across the city. In 2025, there were about 57,000 vacant rent-stabilized apartments reported by landlords in the city, out of about a million, representing an approximate 5.6% vacancy rate. About a decade before, in 2016, the citywide vacancy rate was 3.7%. That’s according to an

A state-commissioned outside probe of New York’s prison system found a culture of fear, poor oversight and outdated training as incarcerated people and correction officers alike told investigators they no longer feel safe behind prison walls. The highly anticipated 277-page review by the nationally prominent law firm WilmerHale was launched last year, after state corrections

I took over the column in August 2016 and the events of the world, the events of the city we live in, the country we live in, they’ve gone a bit haywire. The news never stops, and it’s overwhelming, and things are changing, and it’s like whiplash back and forth, and everything is contentious. The

Luc Rene, an Amazon delivery driver in Queens, had already gone through five bottles of water in as many hours during his shift on Wednesday, the first day of an anticipated four-day stretch of dangerously hot temperatures in New York City. He’d used a sixth to douse a rag to cool himself down. Rene’s route