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Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today. Residents of a Bronx public housing complex say they smelled gas around the site of a partial building collapse in the hours and days leading up to the disaster that city officials are blaming on a boiler explosion.

Democratic socialist and mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani wants to undo the Gifted and Talented program for young New York City school kids — the latest move to revert back to ex-mayor Bill de Blasio’s era. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, told The New York Times that he would eliminate the program at the...

People going to extremes to avoid paying for the subway is nothing new, but a new report is showing just how much the city is losing, and what new technology has helped cut down on crime.

The fire broke out on the bus on the northbound eastern spur of the turnpike in Secaucus, before the approach to exit 15X.

TWO Delta passenger planes collided in a terrifying smash at New York’s LaGuardia Airport – ripping the wing off one jet and injuring a flight attendant. The CRJ-900 regional jets, both operated by Delta subsidiary Endeavor Air, clipped each other around 9.56pm Wednesday night while taxiing at low speed. Shocking...

From the time he was a child, Michael Schneider was drawn to animals. At only six years old, he already felt it deep down that helping them was part of who he was. His family often visited the SPCA, a shelter in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, and brought home dogs and cats who had nowhere else to go.

During the latest segment of CNN, host Sara Sidner halted the show to break the news of a high rise building collapse that occurred in New York City on Wednesday

New Jersey drivers certainly have a reputation for being aggressive. While I think it’s exaggerated, outsiders may have a point: we tend to speed, we’re not trusted to make left turns a lot of the time, plus we have the Jersey slide named after us. But where are...

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin confronted Zohran Mamdani on his past anti-police rhetoric and whether he's formally apologized to the New York police officers.

A New York grand jury indicted a male model Wednesday, accusing him of attacking his husband, who was later found dead and stabbed in his New York apartment — but he has not been charged in his husband’s death. Donald Zieben-Hood, 40, was indicted for what the Manhattan...