It’s almost the end for the city’s migrant shelter system. Under a plan to come by mid-February, the tens of thousands of migrants living in what critics have called a “shadow system” will likely remain in the city’s homeless shelters. buff.ly/aWxwIk6

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About 27 million fewer vehicles entered the congested pricing tolling zone over the last calendar year than would have occurred without tolling, according to the MTA. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/05/c...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday signed a new executive order extending the emergency declaration governing the city’s jails and Rikers Island, while requiring Department of Correction leadership to produce a plan to unwind years of suspended jail rules. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/06/r...

Around 200 Venezuelans gathered outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan Monday to cheer the removal and prosecution of their home country’s president, socialist strongman Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by U.S. authorities over the weekend. buff.ly/C6jTq2q

Back when he was a longshot Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani said on this podcast that it would be his first interview as mayor, but he didn’t follow through on that promise after his historic win. buff.ly/d8FrdLR

It’s a new day in New York City, with a new year and new mayor. There’s a lot to cover, from housing to public safety. Here are some of looming issues, problems and controversies that the reporters in our newsroom can see making headlines over 2026. buff.ly/WrxKXfb

Adams Suspended Jail Rules Banning Solitary. Will Mamdani End the ‘Emergency’ Monday? www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/02/m...

Mark Levine has yet to engage after predecessor Brad Lander declared a city-union insurance fund insolvent after years of diverted funds. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/02/l...

Thousands of spectators lined Broadway and filled City Hall Park to celebrate the inauguration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who vowed to push his ambitious affordability agenda for New York City and not shy away from the promises he made during his campaign. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/01/z...

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in just after midnight Thursday as New York City’s 112th mayor and the youngest in more than a century, taking the oath of office inside the old City Hall subway station. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/01/m...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to tap Kamar Samuels, a Manhattan superintendent, to run New York City’s public school system, according to a transition committee member briefed by administration officials. Via @chalkbeat.org www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/31/z...

Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/31/p...

New Yorkers who rely on the MetroCard for more than swipes and dips are grudgingly bracing for the transit system’s familiar farecard to reach the end of the line.

Hochul promised to use clemency on a rolling basis when she took office. In 2025, she has freed just two people.

The audit from Comptroller Brad Lander, concluding the joint union-City Hall insurance fund owes billions of dollars to the city, is applauded by fiscal watchdogs and advocates who have long decried deals they say ripped off retirees and taxpayers.

From Zohran Mamdani’s stunning mayoral win to the arrests at 26 Federal Plaza, 2025 was filled with images of a city filled with hope and determination to defend its values.

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Where Eric Adams stands in the pantheon of New York City mayors will be for historians to decide, but in a single respect he joins only one other mayor, long forgotten: A. Oakey Hall.

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Projections for 2026 are modest at best.

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In 2024, the city’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped to levels not seen since 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic — a sign, environmentalists say, that new climate policies are making a difference.

“There is nothing in the annals of New York political history quite like the scandals that enveloped Adams and his administration — and that’s saying something."

Zohran Mamdani has promised to have 1 percent of the city budget go to the Parks Department — but so did Eric Adams, who never came close to delivering.

The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.

The forecasts for job gains next year are bleak, and a sharp rise in the Black unemployment rate shows how post-pandemic gains for many are fragile.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a long-sought package of prison reform bills into law Friday, calling it “landmark” legislation. But days later, the scope and significance of the measure is still being fiercely debated.

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Do First Amendment rights exist in privately owned public spaces? A retired prosecutor filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to establish those rights, after a clash during an anti-Trump protest.

"I just want the Trump administration to know the widespread effect this is going to have on our economy, on people’s jobs, the ability to support their families."

NEW: City Comptroller Brad Lander is for the first time auditing a troubled health fund that pays for city workers’ health benefits.

“For me, this is a joke. You don’t even treat an animal this way.” Dispatch from Delaney Hall, now the largest ICE detention center in the northeast, where visitors often have to wait more than hour to get inside, no matter the weather.

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Stefanik expressed frustration that “Trump didn’t clear out her path and make it easy” for her get the Republican nomination, according to a New York GOP operative familiar with the situation.

A Chinese father and son who were arrested by ICE and separated inside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan last month have been reunited — and then swiftly deported to China.

In immigration court, Trump administration lawyers moved to toss asylum claims en masse, arguing people should seek asylum in countries they may have never set foot in.

The City Council voted on more than 50 bills in a marathon session tonight, their last of 2025. Here's what got approved:

NEW: The request to ‘pretermit’ is an effort to toss a person’s asylum claim, leaving them defenseless against deportation to a country they are not from and may have never even entered before: Honduras, Ecuador and Uganda. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/18/a...

City investigators, in an unusual criticism of the ethics board, found that Mastro's work disregarded limits on city employees taking outside jobs.

“They were about to take me out with no clothes on,” he said. “Everybody was yelling, like, ‘You can’t do that to him!’ I was humiliated.”

The City Council Speaker cut the ribbon on a new Downtown Brooklyn trauma recovery center aimed at assisting survivors navigate the psychological, legal and financial wreckage that can linger long after an arrest is made.

The head of the MTA warned Wednesday that tech giant Meta needs to “get on the stick” about taking down social media videos of subway-surfing daredevils riding on top of trains.

The dealers took over the lobby of one building at Johnson and stored their wares in empty apartments, utility boxes used by NYCHA maintenance crews — even inside a NYCHA mailbox.

“They should have the capacity to shut this down."

The state board’s move reinvigorates a debate about particularly polluting facilities designed, in a pinch, to offer the city more power: peaker plants.

The number of chain stores in New York City dropped by 1.3% in 2025, the sixth decline in the last eight years. buff.ly/TXpE8St