It's Tuesday in New York City, where we're about a month away from finding out which of the eight downstate casino proposals get approved by the powerful six-person panels reviewing them.
If a panel — made up of local residents appointed by the governor, mayor and other elected officials — says yes, the casino pitch moves on to a final round of scrutiny by the state’s Gaming Facility Location Board, which will issue three downstate casino licenses by year's end.
If two-thirds of a given panel doesn't vote yes, the project is effectively dead.
Health officials said yesterday that a fifth person has died in connection with the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem.
Here's why Legionnaires' disease — a severe form of pneumonia contracted by inhaling Legionella bacteria, often in the mist that comes off water-cooling towers — is stubbornly common in New York City.
Police yesterday said they were looking for two suspects in the shooting that killed three men — two of whom were suspected shooters themselves.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, once a prominent Democratic critic of Gov. Kathy Hochul, very publicly buried the hatchet with her yesterday as the two co-headlined a Bronx rally against federal health care cuts.
The MTA board yesterday officially approved a contract to begin major construction on the Second Avenue Subway extension into East Harlem.
This comes weeks after some residents received 90-day eviction notices saying they'll have to move (with the MTA's assistance) to make way for the new subway line.
A group of major philanthropists is trying to raise an emergency $50 million to prevent local public TV and radio stations from shutting down after congressional Republicans defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Puerto Ricans who live in the continental U.S. are having really moving experiences going to the island for Bad Bunny's 30-concert residency in San Juan.
Zohran Mamdani still hasn’t landed endorsements from the state’s top Democrats, but the mayoral contender is getting warmer treatment from Gov. Kathy Hochul than House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
