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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. The impacts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ sweeping cuts to public health funding in New York state and New York City have started to come into focus, with wide-ranging consequences for disease surveillance and outbreak response, addiction recovery […]

Mayor Eric Adams will not run in the June Democratic primary for mayor, instead launching a long-shot independent in the general election instead, he announced in a video released early Thursday. “I’m not a quitter, I’m a New Yorker,” he said in the six-minute clip posted to X. “Although I am still a Democrat, I’m

Alex Rotar was one step away from ending it all.  He stood on a ledge on top of a six-floor apartment building in Dyker Heights as officers from the NYPD and the U.S. Marshall’s Fugitive Task Force yelled at him to come down on March 14, 2024, according to court records.  “I’m standing there with

With his federal corruption case behind him, Mayor Eric Adams stood on the back steps of Gracie Mansion on Wednesday to defiantly declare he is  going to run — and prevail — in the upcoming mayoral race.  “I’m running for re-election and you know what? I’m gonna win,” he said.  It was a striking scene

A federal judge dismissed Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case Wednesday, eliminating the possibility that the Trump Justice Department could reopen the case. In dismissing the charges “with prejudice,” Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho rejected the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the case “without prejudice,” based on the argument that the mayor’s indictment on bribery

This article was produced in partnership with New York Focus. The number of stop-and-frisks performed by NYPD officers sharply increased last year, public data analyzed by New York Focus and THE CITY reveals. In 2024, officers recorded 25,386 stops, a 50 percent increase over the previous year and the highest number since 2014. Nearly nine

A state board is still months away from selecting up to three locations for New York City-area casinos but some bidders are rolling the dice as if they’ve already won — with a boost from state lawmakers.  Last month, the owners of the Mets, who want to put an entertainment complex anchored by a casino next

A transgender tennis player is calling on the city’s Human Rights Commission and Parks Department to investigate an amateur tennis league, alleging Brooklyn Tennis League, a division of Tennis League Network, kicked her out last week after a cisgender female opponent complained about competing against a trans player. Cammie Woodman beat her opponent 6-2, 6-0

A movie star walks into a bar. Well, a chai shop.  And she’s not really a movie star, just a flood sensor — a tool that monitors water levels — with big dreams. After a four-performance run in September, a newly revamped version of “Flood Sensor Aunty” is heading to every borough for six free

The two leading candidates to become the next city comptroller agree on what the major challenge will be: fighting Donald Trump and the Republicans who control Washington. “We have to fight back,” said Justin Brannan, City Council member representing Bay Ridge and chair of the finance committee and a key player in budget negotiations. “We