It's Monday in New York City, where every four months, the NYPD holds a press conference on the city’s latest crime statistics.
In recent years, those announcements almost always paint a rosy picture of crime on the decline.
But a Gothamist review of public NYPD reports found that these headline-grabbing crime decreases often shrink, and sometimes reverse, after the department audits them in the months that follow.
For example, after the police department first said transit crime during the first half of 2025 had hit its lowest level since 2010, the eventual audit showed a 1.5% increase from the same period in the previous year.
City officials said crews worked through the weekend to shore up the building in Midtown that nearly collapsed last week — and added netting to one side of the building to prevent any debris from falling.
Brooklyn's B46 bus route, which runs along Utica Avenue from Crown Heights to Kings Plaza, is often clogged with double-parked cars and dollar vans. It's now one of five bus corridors set to get major speed upgrades.
The Trump administration is reviving its plan to turn a warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, into an immigrant detention center, less than two weeks after officials said the idea was dead.
New York City's parks department said it's hosting a “Parents’ Night Out” on August 16, offering a free evening of childcare at one location per borough.
Just three Black students were admitted to elite Stuyvesant High School’s ninth-grade class of 777 in the last school year, according to the latest statistics from the city’s education department.
Jay-Z's show at Yankee Stadium last night didn't start until after midnight due to "10,000 people outside," some of whom tried to rush the gate, according to the man himself.
Business groups are trying to get New York to relax its Prohibition-era law that currently bans many establishments from selling alcoholwithin 200 feet of a school or a church.
“If we electrify every food vending cart in NYC, we could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over 120,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is the equivalent of taking 30,000 cars off the road each year,” said a city official.
Hundreds of New York City families who didn’t initially get into the preschool programs they wanted for their 3-year-olds have been offered slots closer to home, city officials said.
