New York City

The mayor announced Tricia Shimamura as the city’s new parks commissioner amid broad calls for more park funding.

Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve them.

The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.

The sale of the apartments, whose residents had complained of neglect by management, to a troubled firm is an early test of the new mayor’s ability to deliver for tenants.

The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.

The driver, Daniel Hyden, was a substance abuse counselor who had past citations for driving under the influence.

Both sides in the labor dispute appear poised for a protracted battle, and only one of three hospitals was negotiating with the strikers.

The Council speaker, Julie Menin, introduced bills that would establish a buffer zone at houses of worship to keep protesters at some distance from congregants.

The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should stay out of political races.

Rosalind Hernandez, who worked in a co-op building in Manhattan, befriended and then bilked a vulnerable resident, prosecutors said.