It's Friday in New York City, where nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian are on the verge of ending their historic strike.
The nurses' union announced Friday morning a tentative agreement with hospital management to return to work next week in exchange for new workplace protections and higher salaries. Nurses will vote on whether to ratify the deal starting today.
The union members at NewYork-Presbyterian are the last holdouts in the strike — which began on Jan. 12 — after more than 10,000 nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai ratified contracts with their employers last week and began returning to work over the weekend.
We found it: The block with the worstdog poop problem in the city since the start January's snowstorm, judging by 311 complaint volume.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has spiked plans to allow companies like Waymo to test self-driving cars outside New York City. (A Waymo pilot program is already underway in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn.)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to close New York City's last remaining emergency migrant shelter, a massive facility on Bruckner Boulevard in the South Bronx, by the end of the year, according to a planning document.
New York lawmakers and LGBTQ+ advocates say they're feeling a fresh sense of urgency to secure new state funding to protect access to transgender health care after NYU Langone Health said it was closing its Transgender Youth Health Program in the face of the Trump administration's threats of funding cuts.
City Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez is calling for a review of contracts signed during Mayor Eric Adams' tenure after former NYPD Inspector Kevin Taylor was indicted for taking bribes from a tech company that wanted to supply panic buttons for city schools.
"They left him there to die": The mother of 16-year-old Frankie Allocca, who fell 50 feet down a shaft of the Queensboro Bridge while "urban exploring" with his friends, accused his peers of abandoning him.
The Democratic governor’s proposed budget is growing to $262.7 billion, officials said, and she plans to dole out more money to community health clinics and municipalities around the state.
The mayor billed his plan as a kinder, gentler approach to addressing street homelessness, saying the city would conduct daily outreach in the seven days before police and sanitation workers arrive to disperse encampments or makeshift shelters.
It raised some eyebrows last month when the governor proposed a blanket ban on the use of AI in opposition campaign ads, considering her own use of AI in, for example, her "Wrath of Kath" tour poster.
