Goldman introduces federal bill to protect IVF, women’s reproductive rights
U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn) has entered the ring in the fight to protect in vitro fertilization (IVF) with the introduction of the Access to Family Building Act on Monday. Read More
View ArticleCongestion pricing: Oral arguments made in New Jersey’s federal challenge to...
A federal judge heard oral arguments from the Biden administration, the MTA, and the state of New Jersey on Wednesday in the Garden State's lawsuit seeking to overturn congestion pricing, as the fate...
View ArticleOur Power Players love a good show in NYC
It’s April and Broadway is buzzing with new productions opening in time for the last weeks of Tony Award-eligibility. We asked the 2024 Power Players in Arts and Culture, “If you could attend any...
View ArticleTrump’s first criminal trial begins Monday in Manhattan. Here’s what to know.
Donald Trump, the former president, is set to go on trial in Manhattan Monday related to alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels, the first time in American history for a president...
View ArticleEast Siders happy Beth Israel closure paused, but seek long-term solution to...
Dozens gathered in Abe Lebewohl Park for a rally and march on Saturday to celebrate the New York Department of Health's (DOH) decision to halt the closure of Mount Sinai Beth Israel (MSBI) on...
View ArticleCirque du Trump: Historic first day of former president’s hush money trial...
Donald Trump was in Manhattan for the first day of his hush money trial — and a circus of comedians and performance artists joined protesters for a sideshow to mark the historic occasion. Read More
View ArticleMigrants flood City Hall Park while City Council holds hearing on efforts to...
Two Council committees representing immigration and hospitals held a joint hearing Tuesday that focused on the experiences of newly arrived Black migrants, drawing a crowd of more than a thousand...
View ArticleColumbia University protest: Pro-Palestine students enter second day of...
Columbia University students have entered the second day of their occupation of the campus' great lawn, drawing pro-Palestine protesters in support of their protest. Read More
View ArticleColumbia University student from Israel recounts encountering hate before and...
Itai Dreifuss, an Israeli Columbia University student who has spent the last three years studying there, has encountered isolation and hate long before pro-Palestine demonstrators set up an encampment...
View ArticleCongestion pricing: MTA to launch Manhattan toll program on June 30
Congestion pricing is happening starting at 12:01 a.m. June 30 after nearly two decades of fierce debate, study and grievances over the concept of charging drivers for heading into parts of Manhattan....
View ArticleWhat does NYC’s future look like? Extremely hot and wet, a city climate...
As if a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was not enough to shake things up in NYC, a new climate assessment released Monday says that NYC will be warmer and wetter, with plenty of rainy and hot days ahead —...
View ArticleColumbia University protests: New Yorkers say they’re fed up and fearful over...
New Yorkers are losing their patience as pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University in Morningside Heights turned violent Tuesday when students stormed into and occupied a campus building,...
View ArticleDA Bragg indicts ‘worst landlord’ for harassing rent-regulated tenants in...
A notorious New York City landlord has been charged with harassment and other crimes for allegedly forcing his tenants to live in unbearable conditions just so he could turn a big profit, Manhattan...
View ArticleAffordable housing: Gillibrand touts Congressional bill to change NYC...
With affordable housing growing more scarce in the Big Apple, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) is the latest elected to take on the affordable housing shortage as a way to help alleviate...
View Article‘Treated like criminals’: Family of Queens teen Win Rozario demand justice...
The officers who shot Queens' Win Rozario dead while responding to his mental health crisis back in March treated both the troubled teen and his family like hardened criminals, the slain teen's loved...
View Article‘People are not feeling heard’: Public Advocate Williams speaks in support of...
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams visited on Thursday the faculty-led New School pro-Palestine encampment as it entered its second day. Read More
View Article‘Day Without Child Care’ march in Manhattan sees advocates urge Hochul for...
Nearly 100 advocates for government-funded child care programs marched to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Manhattan office on Monday to shed light on the lack of funding for such services in NYC. Read More
View ArticleWhy City Council members want to put a social worker in every NYPD precinct
Getting arrested in NYC entails getting cuffed, fingerprinted, placed in a holding cell — and, soon, consulting with a social worker, should a new City Council bill becomes law. Read More
View ArticleCannabis Industry Power Players Reflect on the past, present and future in...
Two years since state lawmakers enacted the Marijuana Regulation and Tax Act (MRTA), public officials, entrepreneurs and citizens have lived with the intentional benefits and unintentional consequences...
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