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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 […]

In a heat wave, New Yorkers across the city run their air conditioners all at once. With temperatures spiking, those ACs work harder to keep spaces cool. Demand for power soars.  That’s what’s happening right now in the city. And in the midst of it, a project that was supposed to feed the five boroughs

Between the Knicks’ championship win, the Puerto Rican Day parade and Pride — New York City has been outside this summer. Fourth of July weekend is slated to be no exception. Between the international fleet of tall ships in the Hudson, holiday events, the annual hot-dog eating contest and Taylor Swift’s mysterious possible Madison Square

After more than 20 years serving seniors in southern Brooklyn, the Ocean Parkway Older Adult Center is gone. The city-funded senior center served its last meal this past Friday and laid off most of its workers, according to the staff, after its landlord — itself a nonprofit built to house and serve low-income seniors —

Former city Social Services Commissioner Gary Jenkins’ name appears nowhere in the 27-page bribery indictment of Frank Carone, former top aide to Mayor Eric Adams. But Jenkins — only identified in the document as City Official #1 — is emerging as a central witness in the case. Prosecutors allege Carone, a Democratic power broker then

Summer in the city is for Coney Island, Central Park and coco-mango-cherry carts. But when the heat becomes dangerous — as it will this holiday weekend — the focus switches to cooling centers, Con Ed and air conditioning.  Beginning Wednesday through at least Saturday, a heat wave is hitting New York City, and hard. Feels-like

This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. In the scrum of the Knicks ticker-tape parade in Lower Manhattan two weeks ago, an off-duty EMT volunteer spotted a stranger showing signs of a drug overdose. Acting fast, Simone Kelly found someone in the crowd who happened to

Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his $125.8 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, which closed a gap which was a large as $12 billion last year, shows that democratic socialists “not only understand economics just as well as the capitalists” but “can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principals.”

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin agreed Tuesday to a $125.8 billion budget, including an additional $175 million for rental help, following tense negotiations in the final days over funding for housing vouchers. The 11th-hour deal comes on the final day before the budget is due, and will be voted on later

Even before another “Billionaires’ Row” tower pierces the Manhattan skyline, the developer of the planned skyscraper is leaving a mark underground. Two new subway elevators at the 57th Street stop beneath Sixth Avenue are fully funded by the real estate firm Sedesco, which plans to build a high-rise at 41 W. 57th St., a long-empty