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City health officials late Tuesday confirmed the presence of Legionella bacteria in the water system of an East Village apartment complex called Haven Plaza, where at least two residents have contracted the potentially deadly Legionnaires’ disease in the last year. The water system serves 371-units across the complex’s five buildings and was tested after the […]

Candidates across the city are making their last-ditch pleas for seats in Congress, the State Senate and Assembly, across every borough.  More than half a dozen candidates are hoping the support of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who pulled off his own primary win last year, can help them across the finish line.  They include political newcomer

Grieving relatives of a teenage tourist killed in a Central Park horse carriage crash last week pleaded Monday with Mayor Zohran Mamdani to immediately shut down the industry on the eve of the rides resuming. Days after the death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan, his loved ones called the planned Tuesday return of the rides in

New voters failed to show up at the polls during early voting for New York City’s June primary election amid overall low turnout. Only 172,684 New Yorkers cast ballots in the nine-day early voting period that ended Sunday.  Of that number, only 11,573 ballots were cast by new — and generally younger — voters, New

As the Mamdani administration works toward what it says is a more equitable distribution of homeless shelters throughout the city, advocates in neighborhoods with multiple facilities are going to court to stop the city from adding more to their plate. Fourteen residents of Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights in Brooklyn filed lawsuits recently, claiming the

I’m using more nonfiction than I ever did before. There’s the old wheeze, “write what you know.” I must have spent about 45 years writing about what I don’t know and that worked out okay, but I figured I’ve had some interesting experiences. If they’re not interesting enough, I can always embellish them a little bit,

The day the 20-page indictment was unsealed alleging massive corruption at Bhrags Home Care, a non-profit awarded millions of dollars in no-bid city migrant shelter contracts, the Brooklyn U.S. attorney spoke up. So did the acting head of the city’s Department of Investigation, and the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York office.

This article was originally published by Healthbeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health published by Civic News Company and KFF Health News. Olivia Killingsworth, an actor and bookkeeper living in Brooklyn has a rare life-threatening genetic condition for which she sees specialists, limits exercise, takes prescribed medication to lower her blood pressure, and monitors her heart rate

It’s a day for the history books in New York City. Knicks fervor reached a fever pitch Thursday as the NBA champions came up Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes in a celebratory parade that drew hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the region to share in the team’s historic triumph over the San Antonio

This story was produced as part of a partnership between The City Reporter and NOTUS. Two of the biggest progressive stars in the country are taking a split path on endorsements in messy Democratic primaries, leaving some Democrats reading the tea leaves for what it means for their political futures. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani