VACCINE MANDATE: Firefighters lag behind, NYPD nearing 90%, some 26,000 city...
New York City’s firefighters are near the bottom of the barrel when it comes to complying with the COVID-19 vaccination mandate [1] taking effect on Monday, Nov. 1. The latest COVID-19 vaccination...
View ArticleAs rent prices continue to rise, some New York City developers are working to...
Rent prices continue to increase as millennials and Gen Z move back to the city. But developers across the five boroughs are making a range of high-quality apartments in luxury buildings affordable to...
View ArticleGiants look to upset slumping Chiefs in primetime Kansas City showdown
Not many could have predicted the fortunes of the New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs heading into their Week 8 Monday night showdown at Arrowhead Stadium. For the first time in nearly a decade, the...
View ArticleSanders working to get prescription drug price provision in social spending bill
Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders said on Sunday that he was still working on getting a provision to lower prescription drug prices into the social spending bill pending in the U.S. Congress before a...
View ArticleAqueduct Racetrack in Queens to reopen to horse racing fans Veterans Day, but...
When Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens begins its long fall and winter schedule on Veterans Day, it'll feature something the track hasn't had in 20 months: fans in attendance betting on the races and...
View ArticleHome stretch: Mayoral candidates rally voters on last day of early voting
New York City mayoral candidates rallied with supporters to out the electorate on the last day of early voting Sunday, Oct. 31 ahead of the general election Tuesday, Nov. 2. "Nov. 3 is not the time to...
View ArticleEric Adams Leads LGBTQ Unity Rally
Mayoral hopeful Eric Adams joined elected officials and community leaders on October 30 for an LGBTQ unity rally ahead of the November 2 general election. The event was held at The Q — an LGBTQ bar at...
View ArticleCops seek Hell’s Kitchen Traffic Enforcement Agent attacker
Police are looking for a brute who assaulted several traffic agents in Hell’s Kitchen on Oct. 7. The bruiser and another person, who has since been arrested, argued with three Traffic Enforcement...
View ArticleMike White leads Jets Halloween miracle upset of AFC-leading Bengals in first...
Halloween can provide some magical moments for a ghoulish football team, after all. The New York Jets upset the AFC's No. 1 seed, the Cincinnati Bengals, 34-31 on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium...
View ArticleSEE IT: Enraged man sets Brooklyn deli ablaze with Molotov cocktail
Fire Marshals collared a man they say threw a Molotov cocktail into a Brooklyn deli, setting it ablaze, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro announced Sunday, Oct. 31. "Fortunately, there was no loss of...
View ArticleTRICK OR TREAT! Ghosts and goblins of all ages venture across Manhattan for...
Halloween has once again arrived and the Big Apple's ghouls, ghosts, and goblins have emerged to demand surgery treats. East side, west side and all around the town, New York families ventured through...
View Article‘Legado Dorado’: Jackson Heights artist and activist presents first show at...
Jackson Heights-based artist Manuela Agudelo debuted her first ever show, “Legado Dorado” (“The Golden Legacy”) — a “showcase about family history and legacy for people of color” — at the Astoria...
View ArticleOp-Ed | Schumer must halt subsidies to fossil fuels
This week, Governor Hochul showed what climate leadership looks like [1], striking a major blow against the fossil fuel industry by blocking proposed fracked gas power plants in Queens and the Hudson...
View ArticleCan’t talk right now: Hochul says she’s ‘too busy’ to comment on Cuomo sex...
Governor Kathy Hochul sidestepped repeated questions by reporters Monday about her disgraced predecessor Andrew Cuomo facing sex crime charges upstate and state Attorney General Letitia James throwing...
View ArticleSchumer’s rally for Queens City Council candidate called off due to...
Senate Majority Leader Charles "Chuck" Schumer endorsed Felicia Singh in Belle Harbor on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 31 — but his appearance at a rally on the Rockaway Boardwalk at Beach 125th Street...
View ArticleAdams rallies with union crowd ahead of election day
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is not the winner of the 2021 mayoral race just yet, despite assumptions to the contrary. The Democratic candidate doesn't want New Yorkers to make the same...
View ArticleHochul makes siblings eligible for New York’s paid family leave
As national paid family leave has ended up on the cutting room floor in Washington, Governor Kathy Hochul expanded New York's policy to include siblings taking care of their family members on Monday....
View ArticleNYRR and The Trust for Public Land open P.S. 223Q Community Schoolyard
New York Road Runners and the Trust for Public Land celebrated their partnership creating schoolyards that serve as community parks outside of school hours throughout the five boroughs on Monday by...
View ArticleVice President Harris visits NYC to boost federal green energy initiatives
Vice President Kamala Harris visited New York City Monday to promote two new environmental initiatives by the Joe Biden administration. Harris touted the Department of Energy's investments in private...
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