Hunter College students kick off school year with protest for immigrant rights
College students are back on campus, and so are protests. Students and faculty at Hunter College gathered outside the main entrance for approximately two hours, protesting for immigrant and labor rights. What You Need To Know. The Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants organized a protest to stand in solidarity with...
Bill Ackman backs Cuomo for NYC mayor and urges Adams to step aside in...
Billionaire Bill Ackman announced he is backing Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race — in a dramatic about-face after he previously endorsed Mayor Eric Adams, claiming the former New York governor did not have the energy to defeat surging socialist Zohran Mamdani . “Eric has been a charismatic and high-energy...
Dad Made Millions on Wall Street, Then Gave It Up to Become Paramedic. 13...
“I was a person who created nothing, gave nothing to anybody,” Jonathan Kleisner said of his time in finance
NYC Mayor Eric Adams floats limiting the number of liquor stores
The proposal has hundreds of liquor store owners on edge, who say the plan could come at too high a cost.
NYC will pay landlords to fix up empty apartments. No one has taken the...
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today. In April 2023, as a bitter debate raged between landlords, tenants and policymakers over how to bring vacant, low-cost apartments back to the rental market during a severe housing crunch, Mayor Eric Adams and city officials stepped in with a...
2nd man dies at Rikers Island jails in a week, NYC officials say
A building at the Rikers Island jail complex is seen surrounded by barbed wire on May 7, 2024. The man had an apparent seizure Wednesday night and could not be revived. [ more › ]
Meet Frankie Focus, New York’s school cellphone ban mascot
As NYC public school students returned to class Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul had a surprise to help usher in the new statewide ban on cellphones.
Exclusive: Mother traumatized after baby thrown down garbage chute
Pierce now desperately wants to relocate, hoping a new place will put the trauma behind her.
If You Don’t Like Socialism or the Establishment, Curtis Sliwa Wants Your Vote
Curtis Sliwa became famous by stepping in where the government was falling short. As the New York mayoral candidate told Reason's Jesse Walker, the Guardian Angels—the anti-crime patrols that Sliwa launched in New York City in 1979—were born because "the government completely failed us….We filled the gap."
DuBose Says Letitia James’s Staff Drugged and Restrained Her Before Assault in Official Vehicle
For nearly 11 years, her account has drawn little traction. Angel S. DuBose, a former outreach coordinator in the New York City Public Advocate’s Office, alleges that then–Public Advocate Letitia James, her chief of staff, Ibrahim Khan, and others—including two male staffers who she says shoved her into James’s...
