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Mamdani said his fare-free proposal — which came on the heels of a yearlong no-fare trial on a single route in each borough that he pushed for in the state legislature — grew out of meetings with ...

Laptop lending and spreading the word about new $15 broadband plans for low-income New Yorkers could go a long way towards helping residents get online, according to The Center for an Urban Future.

More than 250,000 people took THE CITY’s quiz that matched voters to candidates and converged on a decisive favorite — with some surprises along the way.

A week after Primary Day, the city Board of Elections has released the ranked-choice results of the City Council June election. Here are the highlights: In Lower Manhattan’s District 1, ...

The collapse of Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for City Hall did not come cheap. Between the $5.5 million his campaign spent and the $26 million that came from generously funded independent expenditure ...

During the state prison strike earlier this year, Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed to “pause” many elements of the so-called HALT Solitary Act for 90-days. Slightly more than three months later, Hochul and ...

The last time the report was released, in 2018, using a different methodology, the Health Department identified a respiratory virus with pandemic potential as the city’s most severe threat, and ...

The city agency that polices housing code violations has for years publicly posted inspection results for all privately-owned housing — but not inspection results in public housing apartments. That’s ...

Regarded as the fastest sport on two feet, lacrosse is traditionally played with ten players each on two opposing teams who carry a stick with a meshed head that is used for catching, passing and ...

A former staffer in the governor’s office accused of working as an agent for China allegedly steered contracts for personal protective equipment during the COVID pandemic to a firm co-owned by her ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that his administration will not move forward with a long-in-the-works switch of health care for the city’s quarter-million retirees to Medicare Advantage, after ...