Seventy New York City Housing Authority employees have been convicted of bribery, fraud or extortion after what federal prosecutors called the largest single-day corruption sweep in the Department of Justice's history.
Sixty percent of the nearly 7,000 inmates at Rikers Island in October required mental health services, up from 42% in a 2016, according to a new report from John Jay College.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition of more than a dozen states in asking a federal judge to block the Trump administration from cutting funds used to house thousands of formerly homeless New Yorkers.
A new state law in New York will allow close friends to authorizeorgan, eye or tissue donations on behalf of deceased individuals with no available next of kin.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has asked 179 City Hall employees to resign before he takes office. ("That Mr. Mamdani’s housecleaning should be so thorough might be a testament to the unusual extent to which Mr. Adams filled City Hall with longtime friends whose principal qualification often seemed to be loyalty to the mayor," writes the New York Times.)
The MTA is ramping up station cleanings at Rockefeller Center and other Midtown subway stations where holiday tourists tend to dump trash that can cause track fires.
A lawyer representing the alleged Brooklyn dine-and-dasher has requested a psychological evaluation for her client, claiming she "seems to be confused about what’s going on."
Under a previous pandemic-era initiative, outdoor cafes could operate year-round, but the city required that restaurants close their outdoor operations in November 2024, then apply to the new program to reopen them this year.
A growing number of volunteer groups that collect litter on sidewalks have popped up, attracting people looking to clean up the city — and meet new friends in the process.
Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote in an order that Lindsey Halligan, the acting federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia who charged James, had “no lawful authority to present the indictment.”
