Rep. Rob Menendez right, and his father, Sen. Bob Menendez, attend a news conference in December. Hoboken Mayor Rhavi Bhalla is looking to unseat Rep. Rob Menendez. [ more ]

Lawmakers want to reopen a ferry route between southern Brooklyn and Staten Island. The route was shuttered after the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opened in the 1960's [ more ]

Anna Bessendorf's Brooklyn apartment was heavily damaged in a fire in 2022. She took this photo outside as firefighters and other emergency workers responded to the scene. Displaced tenants often dont know when they can return home after a fire. [ more ]

The building on Staten Island where police say an infant was found dead. Police arrested and charged the boy's parents with reckless endangerment in the first and second degrees. [ more ]

Officials said they hadn't received any reports of damage to roads or other infrastructure on Saturday. A larger quake earlier this month caused some homes in New Jersey to be evacuated, as seen here. The 2.9 magnitude earthquake hit shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday and came three weeks after a rare 4.8 magnitude quake shook the region. [ more ]

The Indian Point nuclear power plant shut down in 2021. The operator of the nuclear power plant has sued, saying the state wrongly blocked its plan to discharge the water into the Hudson River. [ more ]

A monarch butterfly on a milkweed flower in Toronto, Canada. Governors Island has launched a campaign to get more New Yorkers to plant milkweed, which is the butterfly's food source, nest and nursery. Development and herbicide have decimated the monarch's main food source, nest and nursery. [ more ]

The program, funded by JP Morgan Chase, will connect landlords to people with housing vouchers. The organization BronxWorks is launching the initiative to bridge a gap between would-be renters and owners looking for tenants. [ more ]

An information agent gives the thumbs up during a lunch rush in Grand Central Station on Feb. 19, 2024. These workers in tiny spaces keep New York City running. [ more ]

Funding in the state budget adds more frequent runs to some routes across the five boroughs, but lawmakers also ended a pilot that offered free rides on five lines. [ more ]

Because those may be the most sinister three letters we've ever seen, here are your early links: Scott Stringer suing his sexual assault accuser, elite gas station hamburger, it's Emily Stone now and more. [ more ]

The building on Simpson Street in the Bronx where police say a man was killed by his pit bull. The owner was pronounced dead at a Bronx hospital early on Friday morning. [ more ]

Runners in a New York City race in 2006. More than 20,000 runners are registered to complete the 13.1-mile route. [ more ]

The MTA's congestion pricing program has a base fare of $15 for drivers south of 60th Street in Manhattan. The MTA hopes to start tolling on June 30. Pending lawsuits could change the agency's timeline to toll drivers traveling south of 60th Street in Manhattan. [ more ]

Because the Yankee great made his classical guitarist debut with the New York Phil, here are your afternoon links: Columbia student radio, Zero Bond in East Hampton, taking NJ Transit to high school and more. [ more ]

Forest Houses in the Bronx where police say a woman killed her daughter. Six-year-old Jalayah Eason was found unconscious and unresponsive in May 2023. [ more ]

Tatiana restaurant in David Geffen Hall in New York City. The reservation booking scene is a digital hellscape. [ more ]

Because the golden age of movie theaters has passed, here are your afternoon links: a UFO spotting, Meghan Markle's jam, a Brooklyn pastry shop that accepts EBT, and more from around the city and internet. [ more ]

Pro-Palestinian protesters set up an encampment at CUNY's City College in West Harlem on April 25, 2024. Students at the Harlem campus set up more than a dozen tents and spoke out in the central quad. [ more ]

A new report from street safety advocacy group Transportation Alternatives raises concerns about the safety of cyclists and pedestrians on city streets. [ more ]

Councilmember Pierina Sanchez is joined by Legal Aid Attorney Adriene Holder and building resident Juan Ricart on the steps of City Hall. Councilmember Pierina Sanchez sponsored the measure, known as the Billingsley Structural Integrity Act. [ more ]

Whether or not the housing deal in the state budget will work won't be known for years. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams are hailing the housing deal as transformative. Housing experts are urging caution. [ more ]

City officials are rolling out "bee hotels" in an effort to preserve the bee population. The Pollinator Port Project has a plan to try and help city bees thrive. [ more ]

Protestors block the street near the home of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Brooklyn borough of New York during a demonstration by pro-Palestinian Jewish groups on the second night of Passover calling on Schumer to stop arming Israel amid its retaliatory assault on the Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024. We know with a lot more notice when ...

J.H.S. 008 Richard S. Grossley near where a school crossing guard allegedly propositioned an NYPD officer. A school crossing guard allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to an NYPD officer posing as a 14-year-old girl. [ more ]