Policy & Government

A five-alarm fire ripped through a 150-year-old warehouse complex on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook on Wednesday.

The Red Hook Coastal Resiliency project will include the construction of floodwalls, deployable floodgates, the raising of some streets, and upgrades to local sewers to address flooding.

Residents of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill will soon see the Empire Bin, a large trash container, arriving in their neighborhoods.

Brownsville Arts Center & Apartments (BACA) will bring 283 affordable apartments and a new cultural center.

Mayor Eric Adams said 350,000 New York City public school students will receive free LTE and 5G Chromebooks this school year, closing the digital divide for working families.

The Commission on Universal After-School, comprised of nonprofit, business and city leaders, will develop a roadmap to deliver after-school programming for all children across the five boroughs.

Marcia Joseph, of Baldwin, N.Y., was sentenced to 21 months in prison for stealing about $2.3 million from a Brooklyn nonprofit that did work for the city Department of Education.

Tensions hit a breaking point in Coney Island on Wednesday at the final public hearing for a proposed casino, as opponents and supporters of the $3 billion project engaged in heated arguments and screamed chants over each other.

Overall transit crime from June 1 to August 31 was down nearly 10% percent from 2024, and 16.8% from the summer of 2019, according to authorities.

An audit from city Comptroller Brad Lander found that the city Department of Education has not been providing legally-mandated services for English Language Learners, disproportionately impacting Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali and Arabic-speaking communities.