Manhattan Former NYPD Chief of Department Joseph Esposito given a hero’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Posted on January 16, 2024
Transit MTA chief to City: Fully refund half-price MetroCards for poor New Yorkers Posted on February 7, 2022
Queens City punts fix for ‘treacherous’ Queensboro Bridge bike and pedestrian path by another year Posted on February 3, 2022
News 2021 was deadliest year on NYC roads under Mayor de Blasio: advocates Posted on January 26, 2022
Politics De Blasio says he won’t run for governor of New York, but will fight inequality in the state Posted on January 18, 2022
Politics The long goodbye: Mayor de Blasio ducks the press and protesters at City Hall departure Posted on December 30, 2021
Brooklyn Paper Six development teams will bid to build four new borough-based jails as part of plan to close Rikers
Coronavirus Spreading like wildfire: COVID-19 positivity rates nearly at 20% in New York state, Hochul says Posted on December 28, 2021
Brooklyn Paper City promises $75M for Bushwick Inlet Park, including long-delayed demolition of CitiStorage site
Transit amNY Year in Review: Storms and leadership turbulence reigned in 2021 as mass transit inched toward recovery Posted on December 24, 2021
Brooklyn Paper New digital placard readers set to roll out in Downtown Brooklyn in bid to curb illegal parking
Brooklyn Paper ‘Scale’ of Justice: Hochul signs bill authorizing tighter enforcement of trucks on BQE
Coronavirus ‘It’s going to be a very challenging few weeks’: de Blasio continues pushing vaccines, boosters and testing to fight Omicron in NYC Posted on December 20, 2021
Coronavirus Omicron NYC surge: More COVID-19 test sites coming, but de Blasio says spike ‘temporary phenomenon’ Posted on December 19, 2021
Politics FIRST ON amNY: NYC lays out five goals for more freight shipping with bikes, boats, and trains Posted on December 15, 2021
Police & Fire Crime trends up in November, but Mayor touts 8-year decrease during final briefing with NYPD Posted on December 8, 2021
Coronavirus Mayor de Blasio announces vaccine mandate for all private employers in NYC Posted on December 6, 2021
Police & Fire Probationary fireman from Brooklyn dies after medical emergency during training at FDNY academy Posted on December 3, 2021
Coronavirus Five new Omicron cases detected in New York, Hochul and de Blasio urge calm and cooperation Posted on December 2, 2021
Transit New York City Streets Plan, released without fanfare, seeks hundreds more miles of bus and bike lanes Posted on December 2, 2021
Education Advocates: 900 NYC special needs children could be left without a preschool seat next year Posted on November 30, 2021
News Nation’s first supervised drug consumption sites open in uptown Manhattan Posted on November 30, 2021
News NYC childcare and early intervention workers ordered to get COVID-19 vaccine by Dec. 20 Posted on November 29, 2021
Coronavirus City officials push mask-wearing, vaccinations and new mandates as Omicron variant looms Posted on November 29, 2021
News Mayor: 75,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to five through 11 year-olds so far Posted on November 17, 2021
Education City offering COVID-19 vaccine again at high-demand elementary schools Posted on November 16, 2021
Education De Blasio still weighing changes to middle and high school admissions Posted on November 15, 2021
Health 62,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered to kids ages five to 11 so far, mayor says Posted on November 15, 2021
Education Under 10% of New York City children ages five to 11 have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine Posted on November 12, 2021
Coronavirus Village Academy in Queens becomes just the third NYC public school to close this fall due to COVID-19 outbreak Posted on November 11, 2021
Education P.S. 166 in Astoria becomes second school to close due to COVID-19 this fall Posted on November 10, 2021
Education Over 10,000 kids ages five to 11 have gotten first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at school-based vaccination sites Posted on November 10, 2021
Education NYC public school vax sites inoculated 4,500 more kids aged five through 11 Posted on November 9, 2021
Education ‘More has to be done’: Over 100,000 NYC public school students reported as homeless for sixth-straight year Posted on November 8, 2021
Education New York City children will still need to wear masks in schools for now, officials say Posted on November 4, 2021
Politics NYC taxi workers celebrate after medallion debt relief agreement reached; hunger strike over Posted on November 3, 2021
Education NYC public schools serving as vaccination sites for 5-11 year olds Posted on November 3, 2021
Police & Fire De Blasio, NYPD brass tout shooting, murder drop in October — but overall crimes spiked 11.2% Posted on November 3, 2021
Transit New York City’s half-price MetroCard program tops 250,000 enrollments for first time Posted on November 3, 2021
Coronavirus NYC children ages 5 to 11 are eligible for COVID vaccine starting Thursday, de Blasio says Posted on November 3, 2021
Manhattan ‘Anything is better than de Blasio’: Manhattanites ready to pass the torch to next mayor Posted on November 2, 2021
Queens Squeezing the brakes: Mayor’s Queensboro Bridge bike and pedestrian lane project stalled by roadway rehab Posted on November 2, 2021
Education Some educators raise questions about new ‘mental health’ screens in New York City schools Posted on November 2, 2021
Politics He’s not done yet: Mayor de Blasio all but declares run for governor Posted on November 2, 2021
Politics EXCLUSIVE: Unmasking the faces behind the design of Gracie Mansion’s Halloween extravaganza Posted on November 1, 2021
Education New York City public school enrollment dropped by nearly 2% this year Posted on October 29, 2021
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