Over generations, residents of the Cooper Park Houses in Brooklyn have created a blueprint for successful housing organizing.
At an MTA hearing on Wednesday, board members also approved a budget that anticipates service cuts and fare hikes.
They're fighting for better wages, quality health benefits and mores staff -- all things that would help with the nurse staffing crisis.
Last December, the governor said she would change the way pardons and clemency applications were handled. But little has changed since.
Workers on the picket line said the decision to go on strike was not easy, nor one they were eager to make.
After THE CITY reported on the local mainstay’s likely closure, owners say they have new hope for a new lease on life.
The borough’s community refrigerators — fewer than during the pandemic — are strapped for cash as well as volunteers to transport food.
CBS2's Kevin Rincon spoke exclusively with Capers about how he got his murder conviction thrown out.
Tenants flocked to a state housing agency hearing Tuesday to raise alarms about loopholes in the state's rent laws.
‘I am at the epicenter of two anti-worker, anti-union corporations,’ says an employee in The New York Times building’s store-cafe combo.
But the medical center isn’t saying if it will recognize a union.
With roots in Occupy Wall Street, the spontaneous relief effort showcased how mutual aid groups can step into the breach.
Community Board 5 resolves to reenvision the blocks targeted for demolition and megatowers under a steamroller state project.
It's part of a citywide program helping students reach their academic goals and get their diplomas on time.
Decked out in their Yankees gear, fans were optimistic walking into the stadium for Saturday's game against the Houston Astros.
The spin through the borough is back after a COVID break, but with a new cap on riders.
The suit argues that construction of the three 60 to 80-story buildings will exacerbate environmental and health burdens.
“We’re not clerical workers: We’re first responders,” said one 10-year veteran dispatcher who requested anonymity.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission finally approved a plan at a site where it has rejected proposals since 1983. A judge halted the plan.
Olga and many others there are migrants who arrived in New York City months ago and are now trying to find their footing.
As tickets mount, many vendors feel like they’re being punished for not having a permit even as they have no way to get a permit.
Board Chair Janet Brain and Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann told THE CITY in a joint statement that the Club was no longer welcome.
The mostly queer sunbathers at The People’s Beach in Queens’ Jacob Riis Park worry about the fate of their stretch of sand.
The group 9/11 Justice is asking Mayor Eric Adams to rescind approval of the tournament scheduled for October at the Bronx Trump Golf Links.
An armory is only as good as what occupies it.
Drivers will get to weigh in on the MTA's plan to implement congestion pricing in Manhattan.
A crowd came to the defense of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park on the eve of a project to elevate the public space to withstand rising NY waters.
Families of those killed on 9/11 have been protesting the Saudi-funded league because of the country's ties to the attacks.
The suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court seeks to invalidate the adopted budget and require the City Council to reconsider and vote again.
“The need is overwhelming,” said Sue Fox, executive director of the Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach.
A city plan to demolish a long-abandoned hospital and nursing home in the Rockaways has drawn scrutiny from all sides.
Joseph Zanfardino, a Long Island resident, has for four decades worked as a plumber and installs gas pipes in houses.
The 5-to-4 vote Thursday also established a range of 4% to 6% for two-year leases.
Five days later, Charlie Chaplin, her 13-year-old tuxedo cat, was so sick he had to be euthanized.
“I feel bad. Not for myself, because I have lived my life already but because of my kids,” Guadalupe, 40, told Documented.
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) scored a historic win as the National Labor Relations Board wrapped up the unionization vote count Friday.
Instead of baking sourdough and binging Netflix, she was cutting up dead people. A gasp, then Petrie, 38, explains.
Workers are pushing state officials for more money for the program to aid tens of thousands who’d been left reeling.
“Back off the drivers! Leave us alone!” Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, yelled into a bullhorn.
“This man held the sentiments that shaped the department. This is a reckoning for institutional change,” Lett told THE CITY.