Parents of 4-year-olds have more on their holiday-patterned plates than wrestling for the Hatchimals in the toy isles: It is now kindergarten application season in New York City. The Department of Education’s online applicationsystem, Kindergarten Connect

The city will make novel use of its libraries with a video visitation program designed to ease the difficulty of visiting inmates at Rikers Island and the city’s other hard to reach jails. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced Wednesday tha

Washington Heights is changing. New businesses are sprouting from Dominican roots that are catering to a diversified clientele — and introducing new objectives to entrepreneurs for surviving in New York City. The largely Dominican district has, for better

The $183 million renovation of the George Washington Bridge bus terminal in Upper Manhattan, which began eight years ago, will not be completed by its December 2016 target, according to developers. Lawmakers and locals are stunned by the problematic delay

Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum, the black corner building at Seventh Street and Third Avenue dedicated to the beauty of death, is having a hard time staying alive. The museum opened two years ago with a full-bodied program of salon discussions, film and

A West Village exhibit is taking a page from the fluttering layers of post-it notes scrawled with messages of hope and frustration that have cropped up in underground passageways around the city since the election. The “Write Now” exhibit is adopting the

The city will roll out a pilot program in the spring that allows car-sharing companies such as ZipCar and Car2Go to rent out scarce public parking spaces and even metered spaces. A shared goal of many city agencies is to minimize the number of cars in the

Legislators and activists petitioned Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall Tuesday to give low-income New Yorkers the right to an attorney when facing unjust evictions in housing court. In 2015, de Blasio enacted a plan to support New Yorkers facing unfair ev

Call him crazy. Call him corrupt. But please, just call him, request activists. The “Dial It Up” campaign launched on Thursday asks that Donald Trump dissenters tie up public phone lines listed for his businesses to make their voices heard, particularly a

Gowanus’ Morbid Anatomy Museum has shut its doors after an unsuccessful crowdfunding campaign. The gallery of artifacts related to death, taxidermiedcreatures and preserved specimens was trying to raise $75,000 to stay open through 2017, but has apparentl

Leaving a burger half-eaten and making a mad dash to the parking meter may soon be a hassle of the past. The new ParkNYC app allows users to pay for parking with their smartphones, eliminating the need to feed parking meters with cash or credit/debit card

Who is actually profiting from nonprofits? Half of the charities in the state saw half of the money they raised last year go into the pockets of professional fundraisers and concealed contractors, according to a new report from Attorney General Eric Schne

The opening of the Second Avenue subway was MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast’s final achievement in the 25 years he has worked for the organization. The chairman announced on Monday he is retiring from public service in a joint statement with Gov. Andrew Cuom

Sen. Bernie Sanders was smiling while joining Gov. Andrew Cuomo at LaGuardia Community College Tuesday, to announce that free college tuition for the middle class — a cornerstone of Sanders’ presidential run — could become a reality in New York. Cuomo’s p

An empty subway car is every bit as threatening, if not more so, than a crowded one. A harasser can direct attention at one person, and there’s nobody else to judge or intervene, explains Debjani Roy, deputy director at Hollaback!, a global organization t

One of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s more electrifying State of the State proposals is a plan to add more charging stations to New York roads in anticipation of more electric cars in the state. The goal is to have 500 charging stations installed at workplaces and 6