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Controversial cuts to New York's education budget could be avoided if officials tap into $4.4 billion in unspent stimulus cash, Lander said.
Enjoy the cooler weather the last few days? That ends Tuesday, as temperatures creep back over 90 degrees and will keep rising.
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A small group of New Yorkers is suing the city to stop the Open Restaurants program, which one argued created a "shanty streetscape."
Mayor Eric Adams on Monday declared a local state of emergency — the latest in a constellation of similar actions against monkeypox.
The city's 2,000 speed cameras went round-the-clock for the first time Monday — a step that advocates say will curb traffic deaths.
Rain wasn't the only thing greeting straphangers Monday morning — delays on at least nine MTA subway lines slowed commutes.
Brooklyn saw big gains in tourism numbers while Manhattan's numbers plunged 14 percent in June, a new study found.
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“The leading story around the world is Bishop Whitehead,” said Bishop Lamor Whitehead.
"Living to 99 only to get killed by a driver turning left. How upsetting," a popular blog posted about Bernice Schwartz's Wednesday death.
A manhunt is underway after an early Friday shootout outside a Flatiron nightclub between NYPD officers and suspected robbers, police said.
State health Commissioner Mary Bassett declared monkeypox an imminent threat to public health across the state Thursday.
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A long-standing bureaucratic traffic jam on congestion pricing started to clear this week as MTA officials also approved a key review.
"Rush hour shouldn’t be trash hour," said Sanitation officials considering delaying the city's trash take-out time to 8 p.m.
Grab an umbrella — scattered showers and thunderstorms are in Thursday's forecast. Find out when.
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Vasan wrote in a missive demanding the virus be renamed, "The WHO must act in this moment before it is too late."
Donnell Russell, 47, harassed a victim of R. Kelly who was set to testify against the R&B star, federal prosecutors in New York City said.
