2+ week, 2+ day ago  (215+ words) Published Apr 2, 2026 A woman who was crossing a Brooklyn street Thursday morning was struck and killed by a driver who drove away from the scene, police said. The 44-year-old victim, whom police did not identify, was walking in Midwood when…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (804+ words) Published Mar 6, 2026 The Mamdani administration's preliminary budget could end a program that helps homeless young people leave the shelter system and find permanent places to live. Mayor Zohran Mamdani's proposed spending plan doesn't include money for housing specialists, who connect…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (996+ words) Published Feb 25, 2026 Even New York City's affordable housing is getting too expensive for many low-income tenants, leading to a spike in eviction filings, a new report finds. The vast majority of the 43, 000 eviction filings were for nonpayment of rent " a…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (556+ words) Published Dec 31, 2025 Developers for the canceled housing project on Elizabeth Street Garden face a Dec. 31 deadline for withdrawing their lawsuit against the city if they want to keep the contract for another housing project promised by the city. First Deputy…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (273+ words) Published Apr 6, 2026 Police officers shot a man who charged at them with a knife outside a grocery store in East Harlem early Monday morning, NYPD officials said. At around 1: 36 a. m. , police said, officers responded to a call of a 53-year-old man…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (456+ words) Published Mar 30, 2026 Modified Mar 30, 2026 A judge on Monday ordered a man held on murder and other charges for allegedly shoving an 83-year-old man onto the subway tracks on the Upper East Side and killing him. Bairon Hernandez, 34, was charged with…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (958+ words) Published Mar 5, 2026 Modified Mar 5, 2026 The Mamdani administration will empty out a hulking men's homeless shelter in Midtown and relocate its 250 residents by mid-March, city officials told Gothamist. The city-owned Bellevue shelter on East 30th Street, which doubles as the point of…...

1+ mon, 17+ hour ago  (352+ words) Published Mar 19, 2026 Modified Mar 20, 2026 An 18-year-old Queens man tried to board a flight to Peru without a boarding pass days after allegedly stabbing a woman at an East Elmhurst bus stop, police said. Luis Emmanuel Valencia Ponce was taken into…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (496+ words) Published Apr 16, 2026 The Trump administration announced Thursday it would resume funding for the Second Avenue subway project, ending a six-month standoff with the MTA that began during last fall's federal government shutdown. White House Budget Director Russell Vought on Oct....

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (501+ words) Published Apr 15, 2026 Two NYPD officers have been placed on modified duty after what police are saying was a botched drug bust " an incident that resulted in officers punching and kicking a man they later found was not the suspect they…...