Nearly 15,000 nurses at three of New York City’s biggest hospital systems strolled off the job after talks with management—Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian—foundered over wages, staffing, and healthcare benefits. While administrator…
New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani has extended emergency powers over Rikers Island, requiring jail officials to finally sketch a plan—by mid-February—for complying with strict city limits on solitary confinement, a law previously sidestepped under Eric Adams. While the notorious jail technically remains exempt a bit longer, we may soon see fewer people languishing alone; progress, if not a jailbreak, from years of officials insisting “not enough staff” blocked reform.
Eva Moskowitz, head of the sizable Success Academy charter empire, has sought to hand one Bronx school to her husband, Eric Grannis, via a workaround that state education officials brusquely called an end-run around New York City’s cap on new charters. Though the Board of Regents punted the scheme back to SUNY, the decision’s import is mostly ceremonial—perhaps just another family matter settling into the city’s education bureaucracy.
Two teachers in New York—Raul González from the Bronx and Philip Schuler from Long Island—face charges of sexual misconduct involving minors, though in Schuler’s case the “child” was an undercover FBI agent. Both men pleaded not guilty; González awaits a February hearing, while Schuler was caught after explicit chats on Discord. It appears that law enforcement reads user messages even more closely than the intended recipients do.
The Kid Mero, fresh from podcast stardom and a Bronx upbringing, slid behind Hot 97’s early-morning microphone this week, inheriting the city’s coveted hip-hop breakfast slot with trademark hyperactivity. The station, a fixture of New York airwaves for three decades, is betting that his rapid-fire wit can lure young listeners from TikTok’s clutches—no small ask, though at least his mother finally believes he has a real job.
In Hunts Point, the Bronx, Yula Corp. has spent nearly a century quietly building custom heat exchangers for pharmaceuticals—devices that, according to co-president Michael Feldman, obey thermodynamics more loyally than most politicians heed polls. Now run by Feldman cousins, the 30-strong firm combines family ties and modern tech, producing machines utterly indispensable, if not exactly glamorous—proof, perhaps, that some “best mousetraps” never really make it onto the world stage.
