Tenants and housing advocates in matching orange shirts pack the auditorium at LaGuardia Community College on Wednesday night, demanding a rent freeze during the Rent Guidelines Boards preliminary vote. The Rent Guidelines Board voted on a range of increases for one- and two-year leases for rent-stabilized apartments at an annual meeting on Wednesday. [ ...

NJ Transit riders could be in for a hard time if the agency's locomotive engineers go on strike in May. Transit workers rejected the latest offer from the agency, setting the stage for a walkout as early as May 16. [ more ]

One of Amtrak's damaged East River tubes in need of repairs. Two of Amtrak's four East River tunnels were damaged in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy. The MTA is fighting with the railroad over its plans to fix the infrastructure. [ more ]

The mayor has so far been denied matching funds for his re-election campaign The mayor's attorneys also accidentally submitted records for Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumars campaign to the Campaign Finance Board. [ more ]

Officials say Gregory Mathieu pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court to stealing over $600,000 from the citys pension system. Authorities say the city employee reactivated pension accounts of deceased or retired workers to funnel hundreds of thousands into his own accounts. [ more ]

A boy receives help with homework exercises from AmeriCorps-funded volunteers at the Arab American Association of New York office in Bay Ridge in 2010. Groups throughout the state were told their funding would be terminated immediately. [ more ]

The bills aren't printed yet, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has been touring New York celebrating the state budget. In poll after poll, Hochuls policy priorities are popular. Voters are less enthusiastic about the governor herself. [ more ]

Mohsen Mahdawi speaks at a protest on the Columbia University campus on Nov. 9, 2023, in New York City. Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and green card holder, was arrested in Vermont by immigration officials on April 14, 2025. The pro-Palestinian student protest leader was taken into custody April 14. [ more ]

A Ferris wheel at Playland Park. The historic amusement park located just 20 miles from Manhattan faces an uncertain summer after Westchester Countys contract with its former management collapsed. [ more ]

Because a three-year-old FOIA request has finally been fulfilled, here are your early links: Prince Edward came through Newark, an unexploded World War II-era bomb found in Cape May Canal, elite scammer and more. [ more ]

The Marshall Project has identified 46 allegations that corrections officers assaulted prisoners in medical wings of New York prisons since 2010. [ more ]

Mayor Eric Adams City Hall wants to rein in the programs ballooning costs. Critics warn it could increase homelessness. [ more ]

NYPD officials speak about a police shooting in Brooklyn on April 29, 2025. The incident involved a chase on the Belt Parkway that ended near Starrett City, officials said. [ more ]

A suspected car thief enters a vehicle in 2022 The car theft crew targeted airport rental cars, according to federal prosecutors. [ more ]

A scene from a previous year's Metro Gala. So many balls! So little time. [ more ]

Mamdani argues vacant subway retail space can be repurposed for homeless services. The model has been successfully tried in Philadelphia and hailed as innovative by local policy experts. [ more ]

Assembly members Al Taylor and Anna Kelles both said their support for the measure was influenced by their fathers' deaths. Assemblymembers who voted in favor of the measure reflected on their experiences caring for dying loved ones. [ more ]

New York Supreme Court building, Madison Avenue, New York City New York Supreme Court building, Madison Avenue, New York City. A new report provides the clearest picture yet of a policy that aimed to make the legal system more fair, but has caused consternation for prosecutors. [ more ]

A screenshot from a video recording of a March 8 "know your rights" information training session hosted in New York City by the nonprofit Chinese-American Planning Council. Lawmakers are looking into guidance delivered by trainers at a March 8 workshop hosted by the Chinese-American Planning Council. [ more ]

Gov. Kathy Hochul announces the budget on April 28. Tenant activists and landlords alike had pushed for the program for years. Hochul ultimately agreed to about a fifth of the funding its legislative sponsors originally sought [ more ]

Because you gotta put them in a bin, here are your afternoon links: Bin for trash bins, too; Bill Belichick's date night outfit; New Jersey water park lawsuit and more. [ more ]

Mayor Adams wants to offer free after-school to all students who want it. Adams said he plans to expand after-school to 20,000 students in kindergarten through fifth grade over the next three years. [ more ]

Arborist Malcolm Gore says the Dutch elm that was cut down Monday was probably about 100 years old. The Prospect Park Alliance is cutting down one-third of the trees in the Dog Beach Elm Grove because of Dutch elm disease. [ more ]

Bob the Drag Queen performing at Barracuda, 2014. I hope this book makes people realize just how much queer history happened in every neighborhood, on, like, every block, author Marc Zinaman said. [ more ]

Because it's shirt season, here are your early links: Canadian study says drinking champagne could prevent cardiac arrest, Jeremy Renner's memoir about getting run over by a snow plow, YouTuber who pretended to pass out behind the wheel in Times Square and more. [ more ]