Author: Gothamist

The city has agreed to a $17.5 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two hijab-wearing Muslim women who said the NYPD violated their civil rights by forcing them to remove their religious head coverings for mugshot photos. The women — Jamila Clark, a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and Arwa Aziz,…

The earthquake that shook the New York City area on Friday morning may be the largest ever recorded in the region using seismographs, which measure seismic waves from the Earth’s movement, according to early reactions from geologists and historical data. “We had big ones that are estimated to be bigger than this, but the last…

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. New York City taxpayers could be on the hook for cost of…

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told a Republican gathering in Midtown on Thursday that he won’t stop sending buses of migrants to New York City until President Joe Biden leaves office. “We are going to have to maintain this process until we get a new president this next November who will secure the border for the…

There are some obvious places to go to see great style in New York City. SoHo is one of them — not only because of its luxury boutiques, but also because of the streetwear-inflected brands that have begun to fill in the neighborhood’s edges. The L train and Chinatown’s eastern reaches have become stomping grounds…

New York City is poised to lose funding for 60 school psychologists and nearly a quarter of the roughly 2,000 social workers embedded in public schools, even as Mayor Eric Adams has warned of an ongoing “youth mental health crisis.” The support staff were hired as part of a major expansion of mental health services…

Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling the MTA to pump the brakes on a plan that reportedly asked New York City Marathon organizers to cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover money lost from uncollected tolls, officials said Thursday. The decision comes just a day after the New York Times reported that the MTA…

Patricia Llivisaca-Ramos was a legal assistant in her native Ecuador but took whatever work she could get after arriving in New York City two years ago. That included cleaning homes in Brooklyn, earning $60 for two apartments or one three-story home in four hours. The 42-year-old met customers in public, then followed them to their…

The state health department has rejected plans for closing Lower Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel as “incomplete,” sending hospital leaders back to the drawing board. The decision comes after both the health department and a state Supreme Court judge repeatedly ordered the hospital to stop shutting down services without permission in recent months. Loren Riegelhaupt,…