Hand on heart: Pols and VIPs during pre-parade ceremony for the Dominican Day parade on Aug. 10. ( Photo: Darren McGee/Office of Governor ) Dominican Day Parade Delights Midtown Multitudes — Loudly! Hundreds of thousands of red-white-and-blue-adorned spectators and participants crowded Sixth Avenue from the 36th to 55th... News 16 Aug 2025 | 01:46
New Yorkers overwhelmingly criticized a proposed 15mph speed limit on e-bikes and e-scooters at the first public hearing on the proposal, arguing it is unenforceable and distracts from deeper issues such as bike-lane infrastructure, accountability, and meaningful safety reform. ( Photo: NYC DOT) DOT’s Proposed 15MPH Speed Cap for E-Bikes Won’t Work, Say Many Critics New Yorkers weighed in on a new proposed rule pushed by the Adams administration that would cap the speed of e-bikes and... News 28 Jul 2025 | 04:16
Left: Daily News reporter Kerry Burke. Right: NewsGuild President Susan DeCarava. ( Photos: Brian Berger) Daily News Union Rallies for Contract, Decries Hedge Fund Ownership Dozens of Daily News workers–there aren’t many more than that– and more than 100 friends and allies, including a clutch of... News 21 Jul 2025 | 01:32
NYC Comptroller as he is handcuffed by ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan June 17. Homeland security later claimed he was ( Photo: Citizen) Brad Lander Arrested by ICE Agents, But Charges Later Dropped City comptroller Brad Lander was seized by ICE outside immigration court Manhattan on June 17 as he accompanied a migrant... News 17 Jun 2025 | 04:59
WNBC streamed the first major New York City Democratic mayoral debate, June 4, 2025. ( Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY) NYC Mayoral Candidates Battle Each Other — and Trump — in Chaotic Nine-Way Debate The nine Democratic candidates for mayor squared off Wednesday in the first televised debate of a long campaign season, with... News 05 Jun 2025 | 05:33
Rendering of the proposed pedestrian-friendly Fifth Avenue of the Future, which calls for 230 trees, doubling the size of sidewalks, and reducing traffic lanes from five to three. ( Photo: City Hall) Adams’s $115B Budget Proposal Contains Manhattan Surprises and Boosts for Police, Education Mayor Eric Adams released his final $115-billion record-setting budget proposal for next year on May 1 with some big surprises... News 03 May 2025 | 12:27
Congressman Jerry Nadler speaks at Comptroller Brad Lander’s pro-congestion rally, March 20, 2025. ( Brian Berger) Congestion Pricing Fans Rally for Continued Tolling, Against Trump Threats to MTA Money A small contingent of congestion-pricing supporters, led by City Comptroller Brad Lander and Congressman Jerry Nadler, gathered... News 24 Mar 2025 | 08:00
City Council speaker Adrienne Adams, from Queens, became the 11th candidate to enter the Democratic race for mayor with less than four months to go before the June 24 primary. ( Photo: Emil Cohen/NYC Council Media Unit) Wild Week as Adrienne Adams Enters Race and Eric Adams Gets Grilled–by ‘fellow’ Dems Even on its best days the campaign for mayor of New York is chaotic, and in recent days it grew even more tumultuous as City... News 10 Mar 2025 | 04:41
Comptroller Brad Lander, who racked up five endorsements from West Side Democratic clubs, took his campaign for mayor to Zabar’s on Broadway and West 80th Street on the first day of gathering petitions on Feb. 25. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Brad Lander Racks Up Endorsements from Five West Side Democratic Clubs Five of the West Side’s influential Democratic clubs have endorsed City Comptroller Brad Lander in his race to unseat Mayor... Voices 05 Mar 2025 | 10:43
The seventh-floor offices where the Church World Service housed its NYC HQ sit empty after a fund freeze by the Trump administration forced the refugee relief organization to lay off over 150 staffers in the city. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Immigrant Aid Group Forced to Lay Off over 150 Workers in NYC Church World Service, a not-for-profit that assists refugees and asylum seekers and provides international disaster relief,... News 28 Feb 2025 | 04:56
Mahl Hamdan, 2, has been staying at the Millennium Downtown Hotel with his father. Photo: Ben Fraactenberg, THE CITY 70 Families Displaced by Hurricane Ida Now Getting Boot From Downtown Hotel Displaced for a year and a half by Hurricane Ida, 70 families are set to be thrown out of their Lower Manhattan hotel at... Home 14 Feb 2023 | 08:42
The playground at P.S. 11. Photo: Abigail Gruskin An Influx Of Asylum-Seeking Students — and a Community’s Response When Mario’s two children started school on Friday, October 14, they hadn’t attended a class since March — and that was in... News 04 Nov 2022 | 04:43
A line of parents waiting to drop off their children on the first day of school wrapped around the block at P.S. 87, on West 77th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Is This What Normal Feels Like? On paper, little about the upcoming school year felt settled in the weeks — and even days — leading up to September 8, the... Education Guide 21 Sep 2022 | 12:10
Mayor Eric Adams makes a pandemic-related announcement in Times Square on Friday, March 4, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office ‘It’s Time to Open Our City’ For a moment in his State of the Union Address, Joe Biden seemed to be speaking directly to Manhattan. “It’s time for Americans... News 05 Mar 2022 | 01:22
Empty storefronts on Madison Avenue. Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl Adjusting to 2022 NYC Sometimes I don’t know what to do with myself, something that someone from New York City is not supposed to feel. This is... Voices 01 Feb 2022 | 01:05
Towering Hotel at Rockefeller Center Nears Completion