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Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, columnist for The Guardian and former MSNBC host, talks about leaving MSNBC and starting his new network, plus the war in Gaza and long-term solutions and the U.S. presidential primary campaigns. Read the full article here

Municipal leaders in one of New Jersey’s richest towns are personally risking severe sanctions for pulling out of a plan to build dozens of affordable-housing rental units — just as the state tries to ramp up development. Millburn Township officials have defied multiple court orders to move forward with development of a 75-unit, 100% affordable…

NYC Council Members Carmen De La Rosa (District 10, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill), chair of the council’s labor committee, and Pierina Ana Sanchez (District 14, University Heights South-Morris Heights, Mount Hope, Fordham Heights, University Heights North-Fordham, Bedford Park, Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Kingsbridge-Marble Hill), chair of the council’s housing committee, share details of their…

Ross Perlin, co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) and the author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York (Grove, 2024), talks about the many languages spoken in New York that are at risk of disappearing.EVENTS: Virtual eventThursday, Mar. 21, 6:00pmQueens Public LibraryA “Literary Thursdays” series eventVirtual Q&A and…

New to the city? So are pigeons, house sparrows, and squirrels — relatively speaking. Not all of the animals we see around the five boroughs evolved here, but many have adapted extraordinarily well to city life, making it difficult to imagine New York without them. What does it mean that some of our most iconic…

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 Thursday morning in New York City, where this high school basketball cheating scandal is not looking good. Here’s what…

“There’s a concern that if we don’t close this loophole sooner rather than later, it is going to essentially open up the proverbial gateway for further exploration, which is also going to be problematic,” Democratic state Sen. Lea Webb said ahead of the vote. Among thousands solicited by the company were many of Webb’s constituents…

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…

Richard Stephen/Getty Images Prospective college students are one step closer to financial aid packages this week, but the timeline is still months behind. This “is definitely one of the stranger years that we’ve had,” says Keith Raab, director of financial aid at Oregon State University. That’s because, this year, the U.S. Department of Education gave…