Author: Gothamist

A troubled MTA project has turned a once bustling street next to a Lower East Side park into a noisy construction site that’s become a haven for drug use for more than five years — and neighbors say there’s no end in sight. The two-block stretch of Forsyth Street between Delancey and Stanton streets used…

An NYPD officer was indicted on manslaughter and other charges on Friday for allegedly killing a highway construction worker while recklessly driving in Queens last April, the New York attorney general’s office said. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Officer Tyler Paul, 24, was speeding in his personal vehicle on Grand…

New York City officials reached an agreement on Friday to modify the city’s unique right to shelter rules by capping stays for newly arrived migrant adults, following a monthslong court fight over measures meant to guarantee a bed to anyone in need. The settlement with the nonprofit Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless…

New York City is failing to accurately estimate its infrastructure maintenance costs each year and should revamp its process for doing so, according to a new audit by City Comptroller Brad Lander. Lander’s office reviewed an annual government report — known as the Asset Information Management System Executive Summary, or AIMS report — that assesses…

Prosecutors continued to gather evidence on Friday to determine whether anyone should be charged with a crime after a fight on a crowded A train in Brooklyn during rush hour on Thursday afternoon ended with a man getting shot. Police said two men — Younece Obuad, 32, and Dajuan Robinson, 36 — got into a…

As he watched EMTs forcibly load a disheveled, ranting man into an ambulance bound for Bellevue Hospital, clinician Ameed Ademolu – a different type of soldier in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s fight against subway crime – took notes. While the National Guard is tasked with checking bags and creating a sense of security, Ademolu has the…

A series of New York City subway shootings in early 2024 prompted Gov. Kathy Hochul to order National Guard members into busy stations to create a sense of security. Here’s a timeline of shootings in the city’s transit system so far this year. Rockaway Avenue station in Brooklyn Jan. 14: Richard Henderson, 45, was fatally…

This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday. Crime isn’t Westfield’s only issue at MTA’s Fulton Center Westfield’s move to…

Mayor Eric Adams is calling for increased power to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental health issues in the wake of a bloody shooting that broke out on a subway train on Thursday evening. Police said two men, whom police officials identified late Friday morning as Younece Obuad, 32, and Dajuan Robinson, 36, got into a…

The NYPD made another arrest Thursday in last month’s Mount Eden subway shooting that left five people injured and one person dead, police said. Police said a 14-year-old boy, who was already in custody, was charged in the March 12 shooting that broke as part of a dispute between teens in the Bronx neighborhood. The…