Category: News

Coming up on today’s show: Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent for USA Today, talks about the news from Washington and beyond. Former president Donald Trump faces a hush money trial and a deadline to secure a half-billion-dollar bond in a separate civil business fraud case. Catherine Christian, former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District…

An ongoing stalemate between New York City real estate developers and building trade unions is complicating state budget negotiations in Albany, where Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers appear increasingly likely to blow past a key deadline without having a final spending plan in place. Hochul and legislative leaders are aiming to strike a deal…

New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy’s sudden departure from the U.S. Senate race on Sunday will not stop another candidate’s federal lawsuit to end the state’s unusual county line ballot system before the June Democratic primary. New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim’s team confirmed the news to Gothamist on Sunday. “He will continue to press so…

The Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. But it was originally a knock-off of another cookie: the Hydrox. A new podcast investigates. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: A hundred twelve years ago this month, the Oreo was born. Today, it is the best-selling cookie in the world, but few people remember the product that Nabisco,…

Saturday’s rainstorm sent water streaming through the lobby ceiling of a Bronx building that partially collapsed three months ago, according to video footage shared by attorneys representing its tenants. The video shows buckets of water leaking throughout the entire lobby of 1915 Billingsley Terrace in Morris Heights. An entire corner of the seven-story building came…

A new rule that will drastically limit emissions from New York City’s coal and wood-fired stoves goes into effect next month, and one councilmember hopes to ease the burden it imposes on pizzerias. The rule requires restaurants with coal or wood-fired stoves to add a filter system that will reduce their emissions by 75%. It…

Mayor Eric Adams canceled his trip to the southern U.S. border on Saturday after the U.S. State Department raised safety concerns about a Mexican city he was scheduled to visit. The executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande, Sister Norma Pimentel, invited Adams to visit her team at the Texas border, according to…

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey signed off on a $160 million project this week that will create a publicly accessible street connection in Newark’s South Ward to Newark Liberty International Airport’s AirTrain and rail station. The planned access point at the AirTrain Newark/Northeast Corridor Connector Rail complex stands to benefit Newark…

Jury duty is among Americans’ most critical obligations, but is also one of the obligations they dread most. Why else would prospective jurors on Staten Island pull out excuses like “my skin burns off monthly” and “I’m in a relationship and can’t do two things at once” to try to get out of it? To…

Rain and wind are buffeting the beginning of the weekend in the New York City metropolitan area, with precipitation expected throughout Saturday and gusts picking up in the afternoon. The National Weather Service says the region should prepare for an inch and a half to three inches of rain, though some areas, like northeast New Jersey,…