It's Friday in New York City, where Joshua Raskin, an Upper West Side middle school teacher, immediately began volunteering to help survivors and first responders after the 9/11 attacks.
Nahima Ahmed, then a 15-year-old Lower East Sider who wore a hijab to school, said she started getting told to "go back to your country."
And Janelle Lewis, who was a 21-year-old intern at The Brian Lehrer Show and a few months pregnant when the attacks happened, said she became "absolutely terrified" that her child may not get to enjoy the city she loved.
All three of these New Yorkers spoke with the young journalists of WNYC's Radio Rookies program in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Family members are gathering at the 9/11 Memorial plaza this morning to read aloud the names of the 2,983 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The unusually ugly effort by Republicans to disinvite Mayor Zohran Mamdani — New York City’s first Muslim mayor — from today's 9/11 memorial ceremony has politicized what organizers have long cast as a solemn, apolitical event.
City health officials said they're investigating a likely cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in the South Bronx that has sickened five people and killed one.
One man died and two firefighters were injured in an explosion on a petroleum barge at a Staten Island waterfront yard yesterday afternoon.
Police said a truck driver jumped the curb at Bowery and Canal Street in Chinatown yesterday, killing a man and injuring two women before crashing into a parked car a block north.
The pilot of an allegedly overloaded boat that capsized in New York Harbor last month, killing a mother and her infant daughter, pleaded not guilty yesterday.
Tesla's autonomous Cybercabshave hit the streets of New York City, a transportation department official confirmed. (Unlike in other cities, the self-driving taxis here do have a person behind the wheel.)
Meet Regina Carter, aka the Furniture Queen, who takes unwanted furniture and appliances from offices and college dorms and gives it out for free at NYCHA complexes.
President Trump last night again told the Republican convention crowd that he'd send everyone $5,000 if the party wins the House and Senate in November.
Five students met up at Pratt’s Brooklyn campus to share why they became interested in fashion design, how they’ll be participating in Fashion Week and what they make of the industry’s future.
Some teachers said that even if they can prove students used AI on their classwork, the education department has not been clear enough about how to discipline kids who do it.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has positioned himself as a staunch ally to workers, endorsing a boycott of Starbucks while its baristas were on strike shortly after his election and then joining union nurses on the picket line. But that warm embrace has mostly been reserved for workers in the private sector.
