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It's Thursday in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani came into office pledging to provide universal free child care.
He also initially said he did not support mayoral control of the city's public schools — which has been in place since 2002 — arguing that it shut out other voices in the education system.
But in a reversal, he announced on New Year's Eve that he'd keep the governance structure in place for the time being.
An absence of federal funding — which currently supplies 75% of the state's child care subsidies — could complicate Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Mamdani's new plan to boost access to free child care for children as young as 2.
The Mamdani administration said it's restarting the planning process for a new bike lane on 31st Street in Astoria after a judge’s ruling blocked a previous version of the project.
A Queens mother is facing a murder charge in the death of her 15-month-old son after she was found in a locked bathroom with the lifeless child last month.
Mayor Mamdani has made good on a promise to try intervening in the sale of rent-stabilized apartment buildings to what some tenants fear is "another set of slumlords." Can he actually stop the deal?
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill will be sworn in Jan. 20 during a black-tie ball at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford.
The U.S. Department of Justice said about two-thirds of the lawyers at the U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York have been assigned to work on the Jeffrey Epstein case.
A Brooklyn mom who was picking up her daughter from dance class in Manhattan Tuesday night in a brand new Audi said carjackers kicked her out of the vehicle and stole it. (It was later found totaled in Canarsie.)
The democratic socialists in the New York state Legislature are returning to Albany for the start of the new session with one fewer member but possibly more clout than ever.
The city's Office of Emergency Management said it would help hospitals coordinate to divert or transfer patients to other facilities if the strike proceeds at any of the hospitals and services are disrupted.
While dogs can’t catch the flu from people, or vice versa, it’s still important for pet owners to understand the risks of H3N2, the most common strain of dog flu.
New York is well represented in the three-day festival's lineup, which includes city residents Blood Orange, The Dare and the suddenly omnipresent Geese.
