Author: Gothamist

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Four children were injured, two critically, after a fire tore through a building in Washington Heights Wednesday night, police said. First responders were called to the six-story apartment building on Audubon Avenue at around 11 p.m. Video from the Citizen App shows multiple FDNY ladders extended into the upper floors as firefighters worked to bring…

Manhattan’s largest school board district passed a resolution pressing the city to bar transgender girls from playing sports with teams that match their gender identity during a contentious meeting Wednesday night. The resolution, which passed 8-3, asks the city to create a review committee that would examine the Department of Education’s gender guidelines permitting students…

New Jersey officials said they’ve found lead components in more Newark residential water lines — the second batch of such discoveries after officials thought they’d completely eliminated lead lines from service to the city’s homes. State Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette said Wednesday that so far, inspectors have found lead components in 12…

Top NYPD officials told local lawmakers on Wednesday that New York City’s subway system remains generally safe despite a string of recent high-profile crimes that have raised concerns about public safety on trains and platforms. But several members of the City Council pushed back on police officials’ accounts, questioning whether stepped-up policing and the presence…

An eligibility scandal in the New York City high school basketball league that prompted the cancellation of a championship game was more widespread than the education department initially disclosed, records show. The revelation comes after Schools Chancellor David Banks announced on Saturday that two teams in the highest basketball division had been disqualified for violating…

Brooklyn artist Rusty Zimmerman painted 200 South Brooklyn residents last year – for free. Zimmerman received more than 650 applications and painted around five portraits per week, all of people who live south of Prospect Park. The result of that effort is an exhibition called “We Are South Brooklyn,” which features his portraits and is…

The NewYork-Presbyterian health system has reached a deal with insurer Aetna just days before their contract was set to expire — staving off an expected loss of coverage for tens of thousands of patients. The agreement will keep NewYork-Presbyterian’s 10 hospitals, array of clinics and thousands of physicians in Aetna’s network, according to officials with…

A 3-year-old Brooklyn boy — whose death led to murder charges against a man connected to his babysitter — was drowned and struck in the head, according to the city’s chief medical examiner. Denim Brown died primarily by drowning, with blunt force injuries to his head as a contributing cause, the medical examiner’s office said…

Early Addition is a daily newsletter to guide you through New York City news, plus other tidbits from around the internet. Sign up here to get the full version in your inbox every weekday morning. Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the magic time to book an IDNYC card appointment appears to be…