West Harlem, Morningside Heights, Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights are all part of the community district that became the first in the city to containerize 100% of its trash. As part of a pilot ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed fatherly pride, a day after learning his daughter Chiara was among the hundreds of protesters arrested during Saturday night demonstrations against police brutality, ...

Brooklyn City Councilmember Chi Ossé is considering a primary challenge to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Ossé, a Democrat who represents Bedford-Stuyvesant and parts of Crown Heights, confirmed Monday that he ...

One of the leading bids to open a casino in New York City may have hit a major roadblock. The plan put forth by Mets owner Steve Cohen puts the proposed Metropolitan Park casino on an existing parking ...

Rep. Nydia Velázquez announced Thursday night that she won’t seek reelection next year. She was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress in 1993. Velázquez was initially elected to represent ...

More than a dozen business owners in Astoria have filed a lawsuit looking to block a planned protected bike lane on 31st Street. The petition, filed Friday in Queens Supreme Court, said the city’s ...

A 22-year-old Army National Guard member says his family has been thrown into turmoil after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained his stepfather on Staten Island this week. “Just one ...

New York City became the first city in the country to allow supervised drug use sites where people can use illegal drugs without threat of arrest, under the watch of trained staff, Mayor Bill de ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump are expected to meet with each other on Friday, the president announced Wednesday evening. “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that he’s “not concerned” his upcoming meeting with President Donald Trump could be a political trap, vowing instead to center the Oval Office sit-down on how ...

The City Council Committee on Health on Friday voted against a bill that would have banned horse carriages in Central Park. The bill, named "Ryder's Law" after a horse that collapsed on a Manhattan ...

New Yorker editor David Remnick and the host of "The New Yorker Radio Hour” joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss the big mayoral win of Zohran Mamdani and looks at why he strongly resonated with ...