New York City’s scramble to replace expired Emergency Housing Vouchers—after a Trump-era warning left 70,000 households nationwide in limbo—has yielded a two-year patch for 2,000 families, courtesy of local housing officials. Meanwhile, the city’s h…
About $30 million in federal funding has been unfrozen for the Gateway Tunnel Project, a much-delayed rail link under the Hudson between New York and New Jersey, after litigation prodded the Trump administration to relent. While Senator Schumer hailed this glimmer of government action, the remaining $200 million is stuck in bureaucratic limbo until next week—proof, again, that building tunnels is easier than navigating Washington.
Nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore are trickling back to work after nearly a month on strike, having secured a three-year contract with higher pay and safety guarantees—though some 4,200 NewYork-Presbyterian nurses remain on the picket lines. While union brass at NYSNA tout wins of over 12% pay rises and better staffing, it seems New York’s coldest negotiations have been anything but clinical.
Harlem’s long-promised Second Avenue Subway extension faces yet another delay, as the Trump administration withholds federal funds over a bureaucratic spat, risking a setback to vital tunnelling contracts at 106th and 125th Streets. The MTA, lauded for completing projects ahead of time and under budget, insists it’s ready to deliver service for 100,000 daily riders—just as soon as Washington stops waiting for the perfect station name.
Donald Trump, still unbowed by scant evidence of widespread fraud in 2020, has threatened to require photo ID for voting in November’s midterms—Congress or no Congress—after the Save America bill, which passed the House but faces a Senate iceberg, proposed the same. Legal headaches loom, since states run elections; but the former president believes he’s unearthed novel arguments. Constitutional scholars are, apparently, holding their breath.
New York, already home to over 130 data centers, is girding for a surge in grid-sapping tech facilities, with 48 more projects seeking connections totalling 11 gigawatts—roughly the juice for 11 million homes. Governor Kathy Hochul vows to make electricity-hungry firms, like Greenidge Generation’s cryptomining plant, pay for upgrades rather than passing the bill to ratepayers. We see a new standard: bytes must fend for their own watts.
Amtrak and NJ Transit are funnelling commuters through a month-long bottleneck, redirecting trains and scrapping key Midtown Direct service as crews swap the rickety, 115-year-old Portal Bridge over the Hackensack for its fixed-gear successor. As chronic headaches go, this one will snarl journeys from Newark to Manhattan, but officials insist that fewer sledgehammers and surprise fires await when the dust—eventually—settles.
The Trump administration is moving to broaden efforts to strip citizenship from Americans born abroad, reports NBC, with USCIS aiming to review up to 200 such cases monthly—though historically, denaturalizations have targeted only a rare few with criminal misrepresentations. Meanwhile, more than 85,000 visas were canceled in Trump’s first year back, which, while sizable, still leaves the Statue of Liberty holding her torch—if now mostly for domestic lighting.
New York and New Jersey, preparing to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup final at MetLife Stadium, are ramping up charm offensives abroad in hopes of luring tourists, despite a 21% year-on-year dip in European flights into JFK and Newark, according to Cirium. Local leaders blame U.S. immigration crackdowns and Trumpian policy ripples for the chilly numbers—though, as ever, the beautiful game may prove more persuasive than any ad campaign.
