Violent crime in New York City through the first half of the year has dropped compared with 2024, with murders down 23 percent and shootings and shooting victims dropping to record lows, according to the NYPD. Reported rapes, though,...
The city has approved $1 million in funding to launch a pilot “Wellness & Peer Support Program” for EMS workers in the five boroughs. The funding included in the fiscal year 2026 budget, which was finalized at the end of June by the City...
State legislators have passed a bill that would bar the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from operating subways without a conductor. Although most of the city’s subway lines have both an operator and a conductor, the MTA uses One-Person...
A strike being staged by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia entered its second day Wednesday as a judge ordered some emergency service dispatchers and essential water department employees to return to work. Common Pleas Court Judge Sierra...
Pete Rodriguez didn’t sleep well. When he woke up for work at 6 a.m. on that Tuesday, he had a bagel, a banana and an iced tea. Rodriguez doesn’t usually eat much of anything for breakfast. But this day was different — he was retiring after 45...
Unionized workers at the Legal Aid Society have voted for the first time in 30 years to authorize a strike. With 91 percent support and 99 percent of the bargaining unit participating in the vote, over 1,100 workers have sent the signal that they...
Members of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ and Unite Here! Local 100 joined Governor Kathy Hochul to celebrate the recent expansion of the Healthy Terminals Act, which will provide healthcare and paid leave for airport...
A New York man on Monday was sentenced to serve 25 years to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of a veteran emergency worker in 2022. Peter Zisopoulos, 37, was convicted in May of second-degree murder for killing Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, then...
Researchers at the city and state’s public universities affected by cuts to federal grant funding urged state congressional leaders to oppose further cuts to research funding proposed in President Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill.’ Members of the...
Federal workers fed up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detaining immigrants in federal buildings gathered in three cities on Thursday to protest what one union leader called “extrajudicial kidnappings.” The rallies in New York City,...
Street vendors who run afoul of city regulations will no longer receive criminal summonses but will instead be liable for fines of up to $1,000, depending on the infraction, according to a City Council bill passed Monday. Queens...
As the use of artificial technology technologies expands, members of the City Council questioned how AI will impact city workers during a recent hearing. With automation presenting a threat to jobs across the nation in a wide range of industries,...
Uber and Lyft drivers in the city must now be given a 72-hour notice before they are “locked out” of the companies’ apps. The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission on Wednesday approved amendments to its rules that require the rides-share companies...
With Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary for Mayor all but certain following former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s concession of the race, unions are taking stock of what was to many an unforeseen upset. Most...
Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief in mid-June when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the...
Seventy retired New York City public employees collected at least $200,000 in pension benefits last year, growing significantly from 2019, according to data compiled by the Empire Center. The nonpartisan think tank analyzed data from the New York...
FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker went off-script during his remarks at a graduation ceremony for firefighter cadets last month. Eschewing his prepared speech, Tucker explained to the 82 fire cadets and their families why none of them would be...
The city’s ride-share drivers and their union are making a renewed push for legislation that would make it more difficult for the apps to deactivate the drivers’ accounts. The City Council bill would prohibit the rideshare companies,...
Members of the United Federation of Teachers and elected officials demanded that City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams schedule a hearing on proposed legislation that would provide paraprofessionals with annual payments of at least...
Federal workers in New York City are no longer conducting evaluations, audits or investigations into potentially discriminatory practices by government contractors. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a division of the U.S....
With less than a week to go before contracts covering almost 2,500 attorneys, legal advocates and support staff expire, the threat of a strike that would shut down the city’s legal system is coming into view. Workers across a dozen United...
The National Labor Relations Board determined that an Applebee’s worker in the Bronx was fired in retaliation for organizing his coworkers against alleged discriminatory pay practices. Last month, the NLRB reached a settlement with Apple-Metro,...
Days after the state’s high court OK’d city officials’ yearslong bid to switch 250,000 retired municipal workers to a Medicare Advantage plan, Mayor Adams has pulled the plug on the effort — for now. In a statement released Friday...
The owner of a 308-unit rental building in Midtown Manhattan reached a $650,000 settlement with New York City Comptroller Brad Lander over violations of prevailing wage laws, Lander announced this week. 160 Madison Ave LLC underpaid 15 workers...
Job Corps centers nationwide, including those in Brooklyn and the Bronx, will stay open for the time being following a federal judge’s extension of a temporary restraining order halting the U.S. Department of Labor’s planned shutdown of the...