New York City will lower the speed limit in Central Park to 15 mph for all users, including cyclists and essential vehicles, early next year, the Department of Transportation said. The DOT was granted ...

New York City parents could soon have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds under a new partnership announced Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Speaking at the Flatbush ...

Valerie Vislocky moved into a house in Manor Heights on Staten Island in September 2024. “We found here, which was like a dream come true. We had exactly everything we wanted,” Vislocky said. “We had ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in her role when he takes office in January, he announced Wednesday. Tisch, the department’s 48th commissioner, has led the NYPD ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday announced a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York, tapping Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois to lead one of the nation’s largest and most influential ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani may hedge on one of his campaign promises to increase funding for the city’s public libraries. Under the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal, the city’s library system comes in at ...

One year after Leqaa Kordia, a protester connected to pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University, was detained by federal immigration authorities, supporters gathered outside the campus.

After campaigning against mayoral control of city schools as a candidate last year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is singing a different tune now that he’s running the city — and the school system. The mayor ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order Thursday creating the Mayor’s Office of Community Safety. He called it the first step toward building the office into a full agency, a cornerstone ...

One person was killed, another remains missing and several others were injured after a four-alarm fire tore through a private home in Queens on Monday, FDNY officials said. Assistant Chief David Simms ...

New York City began digging out Monday after a winter storm dumped a foot of snow in some neighborhoods, marking the city’s heaviest snowfall in nearly five years. Snow started falling Sunday morning ...

On today's "Morning People," Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter discuss New York City's first official artificial intelligence playbook for public schools, why everyone needs 11 more minutes of sleep and ...