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An explosive audit from City Comptroller Brad Lander recommends dissolving a fund that helps finance city employees health benefits, concluding that it is billions of dollars in the red after being tapped for years by municipal unions and mayors in labor bargaining. Declaring the fund “insolvent,” Lander’s auditors...

Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today. The number of Asian residents in Manhattan’s Chinatown dropped by over 20% in the past decade despite an increase in the neighborhood’s overall population, according to a recent report published by the Asian American Legal Defense and...

Brooklyn-based Maimonides Health is merging with NYC Health + Hospitals, New York City health leaders announced.

New Yorkers will see minimum wage hikes on New Year’s Day, with the rate rising to $17 per hour in the Big Apple, Westchester and Long Island while reaching $16 in the rest of the state. The $0.50-an-hour hikes will mark the third minimum-wage increase in three years and come as nearly two dozen states are increasing...

Now that’s cool! A snow pile was shaped into a massive “Snow King” sculpture on a Brooklyn sidewalk – and dozens of people are going out of their way just to catch a glimpse of it. Roughly 50 gawkers stopped by Sunday to see the sculpture outside of House of the Lord Pentecostal Church on Atlantic Avenue after it was...

“You can see somebody had bundled something up and taped it to this rock with like a mile of tape, which piqued my interest about it."

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, simple embarresed Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, following his declaration of “people will die” concerning the latest appointment to his administration. Mamdani, who is all set to be inaugurated as New York City’s next mayor on Jan. 1, announced Tuesday that Lillian...

A man remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday, hours after a law enforcement source says he apparently shot himself in the middle of Midtown, blocks from holiday crowds were enjoying a nighttime look at the Rockefeller Center tree and Radio City Sunday night. Little was known about the circumstances...

Thomas H. Watkins, the pioneering media mogul who transformed the landscape of the Black Press by founding New York City’s first Black-owned daily newspaper, has passed away at the age of 88. A titan of industry and a fierce advocate for the Black press, Watkins served as the founder,...

A 30-year-old Bronx mom was allegedly held down by her thuggish neighbor while his girlfriend viciously stabbed her to death in an elevator – all in a dispute over a dog. Beyonce Johnson, 24, and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Saleh Ceesay, got into a scuffle with mom Shashamanie Thompson inside their Highbridge...