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While schools have been grappling with the student use of artificial intelligence in classrooms, a growing shift is happening on the other side of the desk. Teachers are increasingly turning to AI tools for grading, lesson planning, and other responsibilities. As platforms like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are shifting th

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A long-promised Staten Island sports complex is closer to reality in Bulls Head after the city Department of Parks and Recreation presented plans Monday. A Parks Department team led by Tony Macari, the agency’s director of concession architecture and development, presented the Eton Place plan...

Legal advocates, public defenders and elected officials gathered outside Brooklyn courthouses on May 18, demanding accountability after a 33-year-old woman gave birth on a courtroom bench while handcuffed and awaiting arraignment on low-level criminal charges. The incident, which advocates described as a preventable me

It was one afternoon in September, when a middle-aged construction worker nearly collapsed in my clinic from heat exhaustion, that I understood that climate change is an immediate reality rather than a distant concern. In Brooklyn, extreme heat, flooding, and dirty air are shaping who gets sick and who stays well. We c

City health officials are advising residents of an East Village apartment complex to take precautions after two residents contracted Legionnaires’ disease there within the last 11 months. The advisory went out Tuesday in a Zoom call arranged by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in which the agency rev

New York has the legend. Florida has the actual alligator. A public works crew in Oviedo, Florida, sent a camera-equipped robot into a stormwater pipe to figure out why a stretch of road kept developing sinkholes. What they found, staring back at the camera, was a 5-foot-long American alligator. The...

Join Shelley and Larry Mentzer, COO of Century 21 NYC as they tell the story of the courage it takes to learn from mistakes and protect a legacy. They discuss second acts, managing a balance sheet, competing in physical retail and the dramatic shift in shopper behavior.

Ten days. That is what remains before the May 31 deadline that determines whether hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lose in-network access to the city’s largest hospital system. As of Thursday May 21, both NewYork-Presbyterian and UnitedHealthcare’s patient-facing websites show the same language they have shown for

For sibling entrepreneurs Lenny and Leanne Villani, coffee is more than just a morning ritual — it’s a heartfelt tribute to their beloved grandma Nana Lee. Leanne told Greater Long Island that her nana had a love for strong, freshly brewed coffee, a central part of their family dynamic which years later deeply influenc

A New York company is buying a Lebanon County nursing home. MDA Capital Group will purchase the Cedar Haven Healthcare Center, a 324-bed skilled nursing facility at 590 S. Fifth Ave. in South Lebanon Township, for $40.3 million. A federal judge approved the sale of the nursing home on Wednesday....