A “super bomb” nor’easter is poised to dump up to 20 inches of snow from Virginia to Massachusetts, putting 30 million under blizzard warnings and canceling over 1,000 flights, chiefly in New York, Boston, and Newark. Officials warn of impassable ro…
Following a Trump administration order, New York has paused its “non-domiciled” commercial driver’s license program, leaving thousands of immigrant truckers and bus drivers—like Rosario Argueta of Long Island—facing layoffs. The White House’s threat to withhold $73 million in highway funds forced the state’s hand, unions grumble about compounding driver shortages, and the school run may soon become a test of parental patience—or improvisational carpooling.
New York’s triple cantilever stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, once an emblem of midcentury highway ambition, now creaks toward obsolescence amid political musical chairs and a queue of “fix or nix” proposals. With city officials haunted by Boston’s $15 billion Big Dig debacle and study fatigue setting in fast, we await a decision—presumably before the annual patchwork becomes a local tradition worthy of its own parade.
Zohran Mamdani, New York’s socialist mayor, is reportedly set to appoint Angela Burton—who likens Child Protective Services to “extractive genocide”—as the next head of the city’s Administration of Children’s Services. Burton, a vocal critic of mandated reporting and foster care, aims to curtail investigations she deems racist. Detractors warn that her radical sympathies might make the agency’s protective reflexes rather more, shall we say, laid-back.
After 41 days of picketing, NewYork-Presbyterian’s 4,000 striking nurses will return following the ratification of a three-year deal with a 12% pay increase and more safeguards, including limits on AI. The New York State Nurses Association claims a 93% approval; hospital brass say they’re “pleased.” Perhaps in the city that never sleeps, contracts—like rest—require a great deal of negotiation before anyone gets any.
New York City will tighten the screws on businesses flouting its beefed-up Paid Sick and Safe Leave Law, warning 56,000 employers—including every last restaurant—and rolling out self-audit kits and data-driven crackdowns where paid time off is suspiciously low. With up to $2,500 in civil penalties per worker and more unpaid time off mandated from February 2026, we sense staff might finally sneak a proper sick day, perhaps even guilt-free.
New York City trumpets historic lows in shootings and murders this year, yet felony assaults have quietly climbed for a sixth straight time—now at levels unseen since 1997—underscoring that not all is calm in Gotham. While Jessica Tisch’s early term offered hope, overall reported offenses, notably misdemeanors, remain stubbornly 25% above 2019. Mayor Zohran Mamdani may find pragmatism, not pageantry, is the order of the day.
New York's Mayor Zohran Mamdani aims to shutter the city’s last emergency migrant megashelter—the 2,000-bed Bruckner Boulevard facility in the South Bronx—by year's end, transitioning remaining asylum-seekers into the standard Department of Homeless Services network. After hosting more than 240,000 newcomers across 250 improvised sites since 2022, the city bids adieu to its improvised “shadow system”—perhaps relieved to return chaos to its regularly scheduled programming.
After the Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump’s controversial tariffs, the US president took to Truth Social to announce a swift increase: a 15% global import levy, with bigger bites for Brazil, India, Mexico, and Canada. This new edict—diluted by legal limits and periodic checks—signals that the world’s biggest economy is, for now, open for business only if you pay at the door.
