Are Duane Reade stores open on New Year’s Day 2026? Hours and dates explored
Celebrating New Year’s Day 2026 might require a few runs to the convenience store. If you are hosting friends and family or need to restock some household essentials on the first day of the year, Duane Reade, a convenience store and pharmacy chain, will be at your service. Residents...
Eight Affordable Housing Projects Across NYC Receive Nearly $700M In State Funding
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced nearly $700 million in state financing for eight housing developments across New York City, part of a broader $2 billion investment across 24 projects statewide. The NYC awards will support the construction and preservation of 3,757 affordable and supportive housing units. The...
NYCHA to Replace Gas Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program
Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances. For many NYCHA tenants, gas service outages are far too common. On Monday, the housing authority reported 79 such...
Why So Many New Yorkers Are Kicking Off the New Year With a Walk
If you live in New York, you already know there’s something special about starting fresh here. And lately, more people are choosing to kick off the new year not on the couch, but outside, breathing in cold air and letting the quiet do its thing. A new national roundup just confirmed what many of us already feel: New...
Unexpected Droughts Hit States Long Considered Safe
New York’s Unprecedented Water Crisis New York’s Unprecedented Water Crisis (image credits: unsplash) Central Park in New York City hasn’t seen measurable rainfall since September ... Read more The post Unexpected Droughts Hit States Long Considered Safe appeared first on Climate Cosmos .
DCWP Says Make More Sense Of Your Cents: 10 Financial Resolutions For 2026
Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga today shared 10 resolutions to help New Yorkers manage and improve their finances in 2026. DCWP encourages everyone to take the time to set financial goals, budget, make plans to reduce debt, and receive free financial counseling at an...
Hochul’s second veto of LICH Act a ‘real shame’ says Simon
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Dec. 19 vetoed the “Local Input for Community Healthcare Act,” better known to Brooklynites as the LICH Act, named in honor of Cobble Hill’s now-shuttered Long Island College Hospital. The veto — the second by Hochul — dismayed Brooklyn Assemblymember...
Law to Give Some “Mentally Unfit” Crime Suspects Longterm Psych Care
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as well as two local Manhattan politicians, are celebrating the signing of a law that intends to ensure long-term psychiatric help for people found mentally incapable of standing criminal trial in New York. The “SUPPORT Act”—that’s Support and Provide Psychiatric Outreach and...
Hourly minimum wage set to hit $17 in NYC, $16 in rest of state...
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...
Strong winds Pennsylvania New York New Jersey as major storm moves across Southern Canada
A major storm is sitting over the Great Lakes and making its way eastward. A warm front is pushing northwad and now the cold front arrives and that means showery rains into midday. We have patchy dense fog around as well this morning and that is eating away at the snow cover in a big way. Once the front passes winds...
