He made his way to New York on a ship from England and wound up at the Bronx Zoo needing treatment for a serious infection.

Edit: the strike is on.

A new statewide policy detailing when utilities can stop service for unpaid bills during heat waves has resulted in weaker rules for New York City.

I will note that contrary to one of the NYT statements, the bomb thrower does not appear to have been with the counterprotesters

A judge ruled to preserve the toll, ending, for now, a dispute that has become emblematic of New York’s resistance to federal intervention in local affairs.

Louise Yeung relishes the intricacies of policy debates and the magic of rom-coms. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat and two snails.

The new projects, expected to be announced on Friday, will reverse decisions made by the Adams administration, and help the new mayor fulfill his vow to make buses fast and free in New York.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.

The officer, Erik Duran, was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for throwing a cooler at a man on a motorbike.

NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.

Complete freezes have been rarer in the past century. On Feb. 5, 1918, during one of the coldest New York winters on record, the Hudson froze solid as far south as Harlem. In 1947, an icebreaker recently returned from capturing a German weather station in the Arctic cut a channel up the Hudson to Albany, allowing emergency fuel and food to reach the capital.

Research shows that climate change is reducing the extent and duration of river ice. In a 2020 study of the world’s major waterways, scientists helped track ice formation on rivers wider than 90 meters to forecast how a warming climate might soon reshape them.

Ice boats used to be a thing on the Hudson. It's too warm for what is essentially a cross between a sailboat and an ice skate to really work today as a means of getting around.