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The New Jersey Attorney General's Division of Civil Rights is cracking down on housing violations. The office has issued notices to 25 landlords who it says has illegally used the criminal history of applicants to deny them housing. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin joined WNYC's Michael Hill to talk about the violations of the state's Fa…

Do you want to take part in the November election, but you haven't signed up to vote yet? Well, you're in luck. Today is National Voter Registration Day. Many civic organizations have events planned to make it easy for all of us to register, including in New York City. For its part, WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk has been working to better unde…

Today is National Voter Registration Day, and as election day gets closer, civic groups are racing against the clock to get people registered. At WNYC, we've been popping up in laundromats all over the New York metro area, having conversations with voters about the upcoming election. We call it 'Suds and Civics.' George Bodarky heads our Community …

Most people detained on Rikers Island are eligible to vote. But under New York City’s current system, thousands of them may not get a chance. As the election season intensifies, advocates are warning that this population in pretrial detention faces the risk of systematic disenfranchisement. They point to data indicating that in a recent primary, on…

For more than a century, New York state officials have struggled to control generations of invasive pigeons that roost in the Capitol’s huge central courtyard, an otherwise ornate, open-air space. The courtyard’s intricately carved, four-story stone walls have nooks and crannies perfect for providing the birds with cover from the elements. The stat…

Whether riding the subway or walking along a busy stretch of sidewalk, New Yorkers are likely to cross paths with people who have nowhere to sleep. Some of those people might also need mental health or substance abuse treatment. Those with unmet needs sometimes get stuck in a cycle of homelessness, hospitalization and jail. The Manhattan district a…

New York City's public advocate is pressing Mayor Adams to investigate allegations of sexual abuse on Rikers Island. At a hearing last week for the city’s jail oversight board, Jumaane Williams cited WNYC’s reporting on more than 700 lawsuits recently filed by women who say they were sexually assaulted in city custody. He talked with WNYC's Sean Ca…

New York City is hosting its inaugural National Urban Rat Summit this Wednesday and Thursday, where experts can connect and share best practices on rodent mitigation. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann and Matt Frye from Cornell University both research pest mitigation in urban settings and are participating in the National Urban Rat Summit. They talked with W…

The city's crackdown on fare evasion turned bloody on Sunday afternoon when four people — including an NYPD officer — were shot by police officers responding to a man who allegedly skipped the turnstile in a neighborhood where many people can’t afford basic needs, much less the cost to ride the train every day.…

Over a hundred films from all over the world will screen in Manhattan September 17th through 22nd for the 25th annual New York Latino Film Festival. The festival opens with a new documentary called "Clemente" about the life of baseball legend Roberto Clemente from director David Altrogge and executive producer Lebron James. It wraps September 22, w…

This week, things came to a head with the federal investigations swirling around the administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD. Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned and Adams appointed Tom Donlon as interim commissioner. WNYC’s Bahar Ostadan has been covering it all and joins Weekend Edition host David Furst with the latest…

Federal authorities are still investigating Mayor Adams’ inner circle as well as former NYPD commissioner Edward Caban and his twin brother. Caban stepped down yesterday, a week after federal authorities seized his phone in a connection with a probe investigating his twin brother’s business as a nightlife consultant. Garry McCarthy served in the NY…

A year after New York City began cracking down on illegal short-term apartment rentals, the number of Airbnb listings in the five boroughs plummeted by 85%, according to a Gothamist review of listings posted on the vacation rental giant’s website. Split Here Fewer than 2,000 apartments in the five boroughs remain on the home-sharing site — down fro…

On this week's On The Way roundup of New York City transit news, the latest on congestion pricing and a bid to cap the cost of electric Citi Bikes.

City lawmakers are poised to pass legislation this week greenlighting a study on the legacy of slavery in New York City, including possible payment of monetary and non-monetary reparations. City Council is expected to vote on Thursday on the measure authorizing the study, with proponents forecasting passage after false starts earlier. Councilmember…

After federal agents last week seized the cell phones of NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, his chief of staff, three other police officials and his brother, attention has turned to a police department that former law enforcement officials say has become increasingly combative and erratic. The shift happened under Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD capta…

As the region and the nation mark the Anniversary of the September 11th attacks, some survivors are still dealing with the health effects from exposure to the toxic pollutants in the weeks and months after 9/11. WNYC's Sean Carlson talked with Lila Nordstrom. She was one of the many students attending Stuyvesant High School on September 11, 2001 an…

The training sessions, which began in August, are the city's latest effort to quell its rodent population.

An estimated 41 million Gen Z voters will be eligible to cast ballots, about 8 million of them for the first time as they reach voting age. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk recently teamed up with the group YVote to hear from young people preparing to vote in the presidential race for the first time. In this segment, we hear from Harlem resident …

For more than a month, a Bed-Stuy block has been debating what to do with around 100 bright orange goldfish swimming around a leaky fire hydrant in a sidewalk pit. But environmentalists say one option should be kept off the list of possibilities: throwing the fish into the Hudson River.

On September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan killed nearly 3,000 people and changed New York -- and the world -- as we knew it. According to New York City data, more law enforcement officers have died from 9/11-related illnesses in the 23 years since the attacks than were killed on the day itself. Dr. Iris U…

While famous actors and directors are in Italy this week for the prestigious Venice Film Festival, a group of nontraditional movie critics is preparing for its own competition in New York. At the Sing Sing maximum security prison about 40 miles north of New York City, a group of incarcerated men will judge the state's first known film festival insi…

The New York City Department of Education is breaking new ground this school year. A curriculum on Black Studies, first piloted last year, will now be available as part of the citywide public school curriculum. Brian Carlin is director of Social Studies for the New York City Department of Education . Joseph Schmidt is a senior instructional special…

There will be 41 million members of Gen Z eligible to vote this year, and both Democrats and Republicans have been making an effort to win this large voting bloc. We wanted to learn more about how that’s playing out in our area. WNYC's Sean Carlson talked with Democrat Councilmember Chi Osse, who represents Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant and …