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The New York City Board of Correction is replacing "inmate" with "person in custody" across jail regulations as part of a person-first language effort.

The union representing the city’s public health professionals and scientists says that units dedicated to testing the city’s water supply are critically understaffed — complicating New York’s ability to control a Legionnaires’ outbreak that has so far killed three people and spread to the air conditioning cooling tower

M&Ms, a Mars Wrigley staple. - courtesy jlmcanally - stock.adobe.com. Mars Wrigley, a division of Mars Incorporated, announced July 17 that it is leaving the Brick City for the Windy City and has dropped a state-mandated notice of plans to lay off over 300 employees. In a WARN filing released...

The city would accelerate street safety projects by “at least 33 percent” if voters pass a ballot proposal in November pushed by Mayor Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency, which officials shared exclusively with Streetsblog. Mamdani’s commission to review the City Charter plans to put questions to voters...

The iconic brick Riverside Apartments in Brooklyn Heights were built by philanthropist Alfred T. White in 1890 as a model of tenement reform. At the time, the tenements many working-class people called home were crowded, dark, and dangerous. White’s buildings were comfortable and safe; the apartments, while small, had

Michelin-starred restaurant Semma was slapped with a slew of health department violations – including for not displaying its “B” grade for cleanliness to its “A” list customers, The Post has learned. The West Village South Indian spot, deemed one of the hardest reservations to get in the Big Apple , was flagged for mor

A Manhattan man on Monday was sentenced to prison after he struck and killed an off-duty police officer on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and left the scene. Carlos Almanzar Toribio, 31, was sentenced to an indeterminate term of one-and-one-third to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of leaving the

Ironside Newark at 110 Edison Place in Newark — File photo / Courtesy: Edison Properties. Mars Snacking is closing its Newark office, the site of its U.S. headquarters for the last six years, following a lease that helped the city land one of its best-known corporate tenants in recent memory.

More severe weather is expected across the tri-state Tuesday, days after a powerful storm system ravaged the region with flash floods and triggered tornado alerts. Like Saturday, all the threats -- flash flooding, isolated tornadoes, damaging wind, and hail -- are on the table. Damaging wind gusts are the primary...

Two Lower Hudson Valley suburbs rank among the most affluent in the United States, according to a recent analysis. MoneyLion ranked the nation’s 50 most affluent suburbs by median household income using 2024 American Community Survey data . The ranking includes communities with at least 5,000 households that qualify as