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NYC's Closure of Five Early Childhood Centers Leaves Brooklyn and Queens Families Scrambling for Childcare Solutions
NYC families are struggling as the Department of Education won't renew leases for five early childhood centers.
Central Queens sees new rules for commercial waste ahead of citywide rollout
New York City's Department of Sanitation has begun what it calls a monumental overhaul of the city's commercial waste industry.
For the second year in a row, this Queens district is the ‘top NYC neighborhood to watch’
New York City’s housing landscape is shifting — and the East River is no longer a dividing line, but a bridge to opportunity, according to StreetEasy.
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Queens woman pleads not guilty to killing building super who was collecting rent, DA says
Officials said the super, whose body was found in garbage bags under a bed, died in part from blunt force trauma to his head.
With ‘City of Yes,’ New York Finally Gets Real About the Housing Crisis
A new rezoning plan for the city aims to remove long-outdated barriers to building housing and to spread development across all the city’s neighborhoods.
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Dead man found wrapped in garbage bags under bed in Queens apartment, NYPD says
Police said they found a dead man wrapped in plastic bags under a bed in a Queens apartment on Tuesday, prompting an investigation by the city medical examiner’s office to determine how he died.
New York City to get blasted by snowstorm, arctic air
After days of balmy weather, City is slated to get buried in snow and then hit with an arctic blast expected to unleash a potentially life-threatening chill.
New York City shutters sprawling migrant tent camp on remote former airfield
New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex erected on a remote former airport and announced the closure of other major shelters housing asylum seekers in its latest efforts to shrink an emergency housing built up in response to a surge of migration that’s now receding.
Why New York Is a Sanctuary City, and How That Could Change Under Trump
New York’s status as a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants has shifted over time. Now, as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to enter office, it may shift once again.
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Addabbo emphasizes importance of new laws impacting Queens and beyond
As New York enters 2025, a slate of new laws impacting minimum wage, paid leave, civil rights, and environmental protections has taken effect
Mystery after human remains are found stuffed in a garbage bag and left under the bed in a Queens apartment
A man’s body has been found stashed inside a garbage bag underneath a bed in a Queens home. NYPD officers made the grim discovery around 5pm on Tuesday while they were conducting a welfare check at the apartment at 70th Avenue and 137th Street in the Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood of New York City.
‘Haggler After Midnight,' Who Negotiates What He’ll Steal from Victims, Sought by New York City Police
Authorities are looking to arrest a robber who "haggles" with his victims before stealing, according to police