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The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents about air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. The records could clarify what officials knew and communicated about exposure risks.
4:35 PMNYT New York
Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to create an Office of Worker Power to support labor organizing and strengthen worker protections. The initiative comes as his administration seeks to build ties with organized labor while improving its standing with the business community.
1:12 PMNYT New York
Caribbean revelers gathered for Brooklyn's annual West Indian American Day Parade, while many Haitian New Yorkers stayed away after being targeted by an immigration crackdown. The celebration continued, but the absences were visible.
8:21 AMNYT New York
Brooklyn's annual West Indian American Day Parade drew New Yorkers for a day of Caribbean cultural celebration. The festivities began before dawn with J'Ouvert, a traditional street celebration.
5:37 PMGothamist
An online archive documenting Tape Art's post-9/11 memorials has returned. The group created 490 firefighter and other human silhouettes across New York City in the aftermath of the attacks.
11:00 AMGothamistSummary
The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents about air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. The records could clarify what officials knew and communicated about exposure risks.
The release shifts the issue from longstanding allegations to a review of the underlying government
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The records could affect both the historical account of 9/11’s health consequences and present-day claims for accountability.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to create an Office of Worker Power to support labor organizing and strengthen worker protections. The initiative comes as his administration seeks to build ties with organized labor while improving its standing with the business community.
The office would give City Hall a direct role in connecting unorganized workers with unions
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City Hall is using municipal infrastructure to increase labor's leverage in workplaces across New York.
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Caribbean revelers gathered for Brooklyn's annual West Indian American Day Parade, while many Haitian New Yorkers stayed away after being targeted by an immigration crackdown. The celebration continued, but the absences were visible.
Immigration enforcement has begun to shape who can safely participate in one of New York's
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The parade shows how immigration policy can alter public life even when the targeted community remains central to the city's culture.
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Brooklyn's annual West Indian American Day Parade drew New Yorkers for a day of Caribbean cultural celebration. The festivities began before dawn with J'Ouvert, a traditional street celebration.
The parade remains a major public expression of Caribbean identity in New York, with participation
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The parade is both a celebration and a visible measure of Caribbean New York's civic and cultural presence.
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An online archive documenting Tape Art's post-9/11 memorials has returned. The group created 490 firefighter and other human silhouettes across New York City in the aftermath of the attacks.
The archive restores a record of a public memorial that was temporary, decentralized, and vulnerable
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The recovered archive safeguards an overlooked part of New York's 9/11 history before the physical artwork and firsthand memories fade further.
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Rudy Giuliani urged Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip New York City's 9/11 memorial ceremonies during an anti-Muslim diatribe. Mamdani has said he plans to attend.
1:07 PMNYT New York
The guide maps 13 running routes across New York City, including options for marathon training and shorter, more casual jogs. It covers trails and paths in all five boroughs.
12:00 PMGothamist
Dongbei Chinese Restaurant & Bar signed a 2,000-square-foot lease at 63 Cooper Square in the East Village. The location will be its fourth in New York City and fifth overall.
12:00 PMHousing Wire
Photographer Keith Meyers spent years documenting waterfronts in and around New York City, with the twin towers repeatedly appearing in the background. His images trace how the towers became an enduring visual reference point in the city's landscape.
10:49 AMNYT New York
Undocumented Latin American women in New York's costureros, or needlework circles, are sewing together a record of their lives. Their work creates a countermap rooted in migration, labor, and community rather than official geography.
10:30 AMHyperallergicA daylong trip across the expanded NYC Ferry network connected beaches, festivals, bars and other destinations across all five boroughs for a total fare of $15.
8:35 AMNYT New York
New York City is fining owners of small buildings who fail to use the official NYC Bin for trash collection. Penalties range from $50 to $200 for repeat violations.
7:00 AMGothamist
New York continues to require schoolchildren to be vaccinated, allowing exemptions only for medical reasons. While vaccination rates are falling in many states as families use broader exemptions, New York has so far avoided that decline.
6:00 AMGothamistTwenty-five years after the attacks, the World Trade Center has become a major redevelopment success but still lacks the feel of a lived-in neighborhood. The next task is to add the housing, retail, public spaces and everyday activity needed to make the district feel complete.
5:03 AMNew York Times ArtsSomeone tore corn stalks from the sidewalk outside Mis Amiguitos preschool on the Upper East Side. Neighbors responded by replacing the damaged display and turning an act of vandalism into a community project for the children.
11:01 AMNYT New YorkSummary
Rudy Giuliani urged Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip New York City's 9/11 memorial ceremonies during an anti-Muslim diatribe. Mamdani has said he plans to attend.
Mamdani's decision to attend rejects an effort to turn the memorial into a test of
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The dispute tests whether the city can preserve 9/11 remembrance as a civic ritual amid renewed identity-based polarization.
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The guide maps 13 running routes across New York City, including options for marathon training and shorter, more casual jogs. It covers trails and paths in all five boroughs.
The range of routes shows that serious training does not have to center on Central
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The city offers a wider and more varied running network than its best-known routes suggest.
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Dongbei Chinese Restaurant & Bar signed a 2,000-square-foot lease at 63 Cooper Square in the East Village. The location will be its fourth in New York City and fifth overall.
The lease marks another expansion for a Northern Chinese restaurant concept with an established city
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Restaurant expansion is reshaping East Village retail as operators with proven concepts compete for limited storefronts.
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Photographer Keith Meyers spent years documenting waterfronts in and around New York City, with the twin towers repeatedly appearing in the background. His images trace how the towers became an enduring visual reference point in the city's landscape.
The photographs preserve the towers as part of ordinary urban life, not only as symbols
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The photographs recover the towers as lived geography, adding everyday context to a landmark now remembered mainly through tragedy.
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Undocumented Latin American women in New York's costureros, or needlework circles, are sewing together a record of their lives. Their work creates a countermap rooted in migration, labor, and community rather than official geography.
These women are turning domestic craft into a public archive, preserving experiences that formal institutions
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The work shows how marginalized New Yorkers can document belonging and reshape the city's historical map.
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A daylong trip across the expanded NYC Ferry network connected beaches, festivals, bars and other destinations across all five boroughs for a total fare of $15.
The expanded ferry system now functions as both transit and low-cost recreation, linking waterfront neighborhoods
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Affordable ferries are widening access to the waterfront while exposing the limits and possibilities of New York’s transit network.
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New York City is fining owners of small buildings who fail to use the official NYC Bin for trash collection. Penalties range from $50 to $200 for repeat violations.
The city is shifting responsibility for street-level sanitation onto smaller property owners through mandatory equipment
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A routine sanitation policy is becoming a new compliance cost for small property owners.
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New York continues to require schoolchildren to be vaccinated, allowing exemptions only for medical reasons. While vaccination rates are falling in many states as families use broader exemptions, New York has so far avoided that decline.
New York's narrow exemption policy remains the main barrier against the erosion of school vaccination
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New York's current rules preserve high vaccination coverage while putting pressure on lawmakers to defend them.
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Twenty-five years after the attacks, the World Trade Center has become a major redevelopment success but still lacks the feel of a lived-in neighborhood. The next task is to add the housing, retail, public spaces and everyday activity needed to make the district feel complete.
The redevelopment has delivered landmarks and office space, but not enough daily life. Filling that
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Ground Zero's unfinished work is no longer reconstruction but the creation of a functioning neighborhood.
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Someone tore corn stalks from the sidewalk outside Mis Amiguitos preschool on the Upper East Side. Neighbors responded by replacing the damaged display and turning an act of vandalism into a community project for the children.
The response converted a minor property crime into a visible test of neighborhood solidarity. The
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A small act of vandalism became proof that neighborhood institutions can mobilize community support.
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