New York Today

Demolition might conjure images of bulldozers, sledgehammers and wrecking balls slamming into structures that crumble dramatically.  But in New York’s Good Cause Eviction Law, the definition of “demolish” is not straightforward. What does it mean to demolish a home? And can a landlord demolish just an apartment, or an entire building? Those are questions looming […]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first executive budget proposal pulls off what seems to be a fiscal miracle by closing what in December was projected to be a huge $12 billion budget gap without raising property taxes, dipping into reserves or cutting services. But the budget is hardly a symbol of fiscal rectitude. It relies on billions

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will present a more than $124 billion budget proposal that doesn’t raid city reserves and takes a property tax hike off the table after he found more savings and revenue, according to people briefed on the matter. His executive budget proposal, initially scheduled for May 1, was late due to the state

A month before the first World Cup soccer match takes place at Met Life Stadium across the Hudson River, only 25% of the available rooms in New York City hotels have been booked for the six weeks when matches will be held. FIFA says demand is unprecedented and that every one of the 104 matches

The city’s Correction Department is set to renew a multimillion-dollar contract with a prison telecom giant that’s bragged of using recordings of detainees’ private phone calls to train its artificial intelligence model.   The Mamdani administration plans to pay Securus Technologies up to $23 million over five years for phone service used by roughly 7,000 people

Councilmember Vickie Paladino and the City Council settled their ethics feud over her anti-Muslim social media posts, with the Queens Republican agreeing to delete her tweets and remove any mention of her job on her personal accounts. The charges filed March 2 by the Council’s ethics committee were permanently withdrawn, according to a court filing.

Will New York State ever pass the budget that was due more than a month ago? And how is New York City supposed to work out its own budget, which it’s legally required to balance and pass by the end of June, without knowing how much money the state is providing? Podcast hosts Christina Greer, Katie

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes a transit agenda centered on speeding the country’s slowest buses, he has less than a month to fill a pair of longstanding vacancies on the MTA board. The mayor has just four seats on the panel that sets fares, operating and capital budgets for a regional transportation authority that is

Three days before a fatal fire May 4th at 207 Dyckman St. in Inwood, housing inspectors appeared at the six-story walkup and issued a dozen code violations. One of those was for a non-functioning self-closing apartment entry door that was deemed “immediately hazardous.” After the blaze was put out, firefighters discovered severe fire damage in

Lit NYC, the podcast all about the ABCs of arts, books and culture in New York City, debuts as its own show with writer and artist Molly Crabapple discussing her new book, “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund,” how her New York City family history led her to