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10/10/2025

The Presbytery of New York City has announced plans to create a new endowment of up to $30 million. But there's a key contingency: It first needs permission to raze the crumbling Upper West Side mainstay. https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-presbytery-says-let-us-raze-uws-church-well-invest-about-30m-in-social-justice?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fwnyc%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F592837185

10/09/2025

Federal prosecutors charged New York State Attorney General Letitia James with fraud Thursday, following a mortgage fraud investigation, several news outlets are reporting. https://gothamist.com/news/feds-charge-ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-with-mortgage-fraud-ap-source-says?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fwnyc%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F592557955

10/09/2025

At Acadia National park in Maine, Chris Newell leads Yo-Yo Ma and other Wabanaki musicians in a sunrise musical performance that welcomes the dawn for the entire continent.

Listen to the beautiful music and get a window into the Yo-Yo universe, one where music and nature work together, in this first episode of the Our Common Nature podcast: https://wnyc.visitlink.me/4ggKwV

10/04/2025

For more than a decade, the NYPD commissioner has had the power to quash internal disciplinary trials for officers accused of misconduct before they ever take place — provided the officer has no previous violations. https://wnyc.visitlink.me/UNiZO1

09/28/2025

Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday announced he will halt his re-election campaign, consolidating the field to a three-person race between Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and front-runner Zohran Mamdani in a race that has attracted national attention: https://bit.ly/3INGy97

09/28/2025

“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections,” the election lawyer Marc Elias points out. “It gives the President no [such] power.” https://bit.ly/4nhG0aw

09/27/2025

The Harbor Defense Museum at Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton may soon close its doors, even as the nation prepares for a year of Revolutionary War commemorations. https://bit.ly/4mFeKBR

09/26/2025

The check is in the mail for millions of New York state tax filers — or at least it will be soon. https://bit.ly/3IDRVAk

09/25/2025

Join us for a special broadcast of WNYC’s All Things Considered, live from the Bronx on Tuesday, Sept. 30: https://bit.ly/4nlpMx1

09/24/2025

Today we’re introducing our new “Station-to-Station Programming Project,” providing our roster of critically acclaimed, nationally syndicated programs to at-risk stations at no cost. https://bit.ly/3VyRB8Z

09/23/2025

When the world stopped in 2020, cellist Yo-Yo Ma started thinking about how music can reconnect people to the natural world. In a new podcast series, Ma goes around the country to places where people have deep connections to the earth and begins to play. https://bit.ly/4my8vQb

09/22/2025

Local leaders approved a plan to turn a 122-acre stretch of industrial waterfront around the Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a brand-new residential neighborhood following months of delays.

Read more: https://bit.ly/46zFgqe

09/21/2025

On the Media spoke with Paul Offit, physician and director of the Vaccine Education Center in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., purged the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee members. https://bit.ly/47T3myA

09/20/2025

Low-level drug arrests have surged in the South Bronx commercial corridor known as The Hub, according to the latest NYPD data, as the Adams administration has faced mounting pressure from local business owners and residents to rein in public drug use. https://bit.ly/3K7Lvdc

09/20/2025

New Yorkers can find a vestige of that bygone era at the New York Transit Museum’s annual Bus Fest at Brooklyn Bridge Park this Sunday. Make sure you subscribe to Gothamist's On the Way newsletter for all of your transit news needs. https://bit.ly/47S0pOC

09/19/2025

A coalition of student journalists is calling on officials to expand news literacy and youth press opportunities after new data revealed just over 1% of high school students have access to journalism courses at their schools. https://bit.ly/4mjkWis

09/19/2025

More voters think New York is headed in the right direction than those who don’t, according to a new poll. Sign up for our Politics Brief newsletter to get the news you need straight to your inbox each week. https://bit.ly/4gqal40

09/19/2025

Four months into Mayor Eric Adams’ promised crackdown on unlicensed pedicabs, court records show that less than 10% of the roughly 1,200 tickets issued so far this year have resulted in any punishment. https://bit.ly/46JYxX2

09/19/2025

Submit your questions about the quirks of apartment living in New York City, and we might just answer them on air: bit.ly/46eNtRP

09/18/2025

A Texas man has been arrested on charges of harassing and making a terroristic threat against New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani: https://bit.ly/46tBBdB

09/17/2025

In less than five years, the beetles can wipe out a forest: https://bit.ly/48kFHad

09/17/2025

Seven other casino proposals also face committee votes this month: https://bit.ly/467bhHc

09/16/2025

People familiar with their relationship said the Democratic governor gets along better with the Republican president than other leaders from her party because he doesn’t perceive her as a threat and she’s willing to make a deal. https://bit.ly/41S1oKV

09/16/2025

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson touched off a wave of support for Luigi Mangione by U.S. citizens and people across the globe, including some who espouse views critical of capitalism and the private health care industry:

The judge said prosecutors had not presented sufficient evidence to bring such charges against Mangione.