Adams won the Bronx by a wide margin back in the 2021 mayoral primary, running on a campaign that promised to build 150 new miles of bus lanes during his first term. But as the mayor prepares to leave office, he’s also leaving behind unfinished progress on building those new bus lanes, particularly in the Bronx.
“He [Adams] didn’t really change anything,” one commuter said. Now, Bronx residents, and the rest of the city, are waiting to see how incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani will deliver on his own bus plans. Stay tuned as we follow along.
Here’s what else is happening:
Attendance at New York City schools dropped this week, just before winter break, as the city deals with outbreaks of several viruses including the flu and COVID, which are also disrupting Christmas plans.
Democrats in South Jersey are hoping to pass legislation that would make it easier to rezone commercial areas for housing before Gov. Murphy leaves office.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and outgoing Mayor Eric Adams had the same plans yesterday: picking a new FDNY commissioner.
The NYPD is searching for a man they say assaulted a 10-year-old boy in front of an apartment building in Brooklyn, and then fled the scene in a silver minivan.
A woman was killed early Tuesday morning in East Harlem when a private garbage truck crashed into a car which sent the vehicle into a sidewalk shed that collapsed on top of her.
NYPD officers shot and killed a 29-year-old man in Far Rockaway on Sunday, but his family says they called the police for help because he was acting erratically, not to shoot him.
The New York State Department of Health is alerting the public about the rise of a new street drug referred to as “rhino tranq.”
Here’s a look at what it was like building the set for the new Timothée Chalamet movie Marty Supreme, set in 1950s New York City.
If you have visitors for the holidays who want to take a trip to Katz’s Deli, you might find this behind-the-scenes look at how the eatery dishes out 70,000 pounds of meat a week interesting.
