New York City Congressman Ritchie Torres has called on the city to stop treating the Bronx like “a dumping ground” for shelters, as it prepares to move thousands of migrant men there from the troubled Randall’s Island tent city.
The debt elimination, valued at about $80 million, is part of an initiative the mayor announced last year that aims to cancel about $2 billion for as many as 500,000 New Yorkers.
New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent months.
New York City emergency officials have issued a “Cold Weather Alert” amid a stretch of below-freezing wind chills that will only get colder into next week. The coldest air of the season so far will crash into the tri-state on starting early next week with “feels like” temperatures Tuesday dropping as low as -7 degrees.
New York City Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that she is deploying more police officers to the New York City subway system.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to meet with Donald Trump in Florida on Friday, another friendly overture to the president-elect by a Democrat awaiting trial on federal corruption charges. The purpose of the talk is to “discuss New Yorkers’ priorities,
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is flying to Mar-a-Lago for a “sit-down” with Donald Trump just days before the president-elect’s inauguration, his office confirmed on Thursday night. “Mayor Adams has made quite clear his willingness to work with President-elect Trump and his incoming administration on behalf of New Yorkers,
New York City will see a chance of rain and snow this weekend, while snow is likely in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
Drivers say there's no way to get from Manhattan to Queens without paying the $9 fee, even though they have no intention of going into the designated congestion pricing zone.
Video captured a New York City commuter bus dangling on the edge of an overpass in the Bronx on Friday morning after the driver collided with a stone wall.