Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, according to the most recent city data, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.

The system has users download the PureGym app and scan a QR code in order to pass through cylindrical plexiglass doors of a pod and enter the gym.

New York City parents may soon have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds, under a plan unveiled Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani — a major boon for the city’s mayor on one of his signature campaign promises just days into his new job.

Mamdani, 34, and his wife, Rama, have officially taken up residence in Gracie Mansion, leaving behind their one-bedroom Queens apartment.

A New York City Council employee was detained during a "routine" immigration appointment on Long Island on Monday, according to city officials.

Prominent trial lawyer Randy Mastro, who served as a top official under former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, has joined law firm Dechert, the firm said on Thursday.

People who donate books and records in-store on Tuesdays and Wednesdays can exchange the items for pickles. Sweet Pickle Books has its own brand of pickles and sells the following varieties: Bread and Butter, Double Dill Spears, Dill Pickles and Spicy Pickles.

Fulop reflected on his public career, which started at the age of 27, first as a Jersey City councilman and then as the city's mayor, starting in 2013. He said he's proud of how it has developed over the years. He recently spoke to CBS News New York's Christine Sloan, who has covered him since he entered public life 20 years ago.

American author EB White once quipped about this city of eight and a half million inhabitants: “New York provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.” And while he may have said this nearly a century ago,