Two New York City-area gambling palace proposals on Thursday became the first downstate contenders to advance in the race for new casino licenses. MGM Empire City in Yonkers and Resorts World in Queens were both approved unanimously by their respective community advisory committees and will now take their casino proposals to a state board that […]

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We’re headed into cold and flu season and you want your shots, including an updated COVID booster. Where can a New Yorker go to get the jab? After the Food and Drug Administration changed its regulations around the COVID vaccine this summer to limit access, New York state crafted a workaround to preserve people’s ability […]

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The MTA is looking for ways to cool steamy subway platforms by potentially tapping into geothermal technologies, records reveal. The transit agency last week issued a request for information to gather insights into whether systems dug beneath the earth could someday be used to combat heat and humidity in sauna-like stations. The Sept. 18 request […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The Trump administration is canceling millions of dollars in magnet school grant funding after New York City officials missed a Tuesday deadline to overhaul their policies regarding transgender students. At stake is $36 million that city officials expected to flow to several schools over the next […]

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A surge of public lewdness arrests inside a Penn Station bathroom by Amtrak Police has rattled the LGBTQ community and landed at least one person in ICE custody, THE CITY has learned. The surge in arrests by the Amtrak Police, a national police force who are not bound by city sanctuary protections, kicked off in […]

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