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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s office took that proverb to heart last week as it repeatedly tried — and failed — to convince federal judges to block the MTA’s congestion pricing tolls from taking effect in Manhattan. One judge spent weeks trying to get New Jersey and New York to reach a settlement. In the end, New Jersey declined.

In his fourth – and potentially final – State of the City address, an embattled Mayor Eric Adams committed to investing $650 million to support people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness. The pledge is part of a suite of proposed investments Adams unveiled Thursday with an eye to New York City families and their uncertainty moving forward. Many of his constituents remain concerned about the city’s rising cost of living and a perception of instability driven by high-profile crimes, visible street homelessness and the city’s struggles to accommodate arriving migrants. The address was Adams’ opportunity to offer his administration’s antidote to these challenges. He said the city would add 900 so-called Safe Haven beds, which serve as alternative housing to larger congregate shelter facilities for people experiencing homelessness. He also pledged to open a new support facility that will offer psychiatric and substance abuse care. Part of the mayor’s strategy hinges on whether state legislators pass a law that makes it easier for the city to forcibly hospitalize people deemed mentally ill.

The New York City Board of Elections rejected a city watchdog’s recommendation to fire its leader, Executive Director Mike Ryan, after an internal city investigation found that he made repeated racial and sexual jokes and innuendos toward two women working under him.. The city Department of Investigation found that Ryan created a hostile work environment that drove one staffer to quit – after she complained that Ryan puckered his lips at her, used a phrase from a Spanish language television show that means “come to bed,” and characterized the staffer, who is Puerto Rican and Dominican, as “un-latina-like” in the manner she was conducting her work.

Law enforcement has uncovered “additional criminal conduct” by Mayor Eric Adams, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York said in a new court filing.

New York City’s economy will continue to grow in 2025, powered in part by a revolution in artificial intelligence technology, according to a new report.

Violence in the New York City subway system is rare. But when it happens, it can make everyone’s commute feel extra-stressful.

The murder of 57-year-old Debrina Kawam on an F at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in December capped off what was a rough year for major crime in the subways. There were 10 subway murders in 2024, a huge spike compared to 2023.

Police have identified the woman who was fatally set on fire on the F train earlier this month as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam of Toms River, New Jersey.

Tourists flooded New York City in 2024, nearly reaching pre-pandemic levels. https://lnkd.in/e8v6msbS

In New York City, package theft has become a ubiquitous fact of life that appears to be getting more organized, and more bold. To find out what happens to those packages, we placed tracking devices in products ordered from Amazon. Here’s what happened after they were stolen. https://lnkd.in/emUU9tdE