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Every year, from September 15 to October 15, New York City comes alive with the vibrant sights, sounds, and flavors of Hispanic Heritage Month. In 2025, the theme is "Collective Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future," a powerful reminder that this month-long observance is not only about celebrating traditions but also about acknowledging the innovations, struggles, and triumphs that have shaped Hispanic and Latino communities in the city.

Though Fox News host Brian Kilmeade apologized for comments made last week in which he suggested homeless individuals living with mental health issues be killed with lethal injections if they do not accept help from the government, New York City homeless advocates seethed over a remark they called devoid of humanity. The remarks Kilmeade himself would later call extremely callous came on Wednesday on an episode of Fox and Friends as he and his co-hosts discussed homelessness and

We're continually growing and changing, but we also preserve a lot of what makes this city architecturally distinct and unique, from different periods over literally hundreds of years,

For years, I've organized New York parents to fight for affordable child care. I've heard countless stories of families crushed by steep annual bills, watched friends choose between careers and children, seen working families flee the city they love because raising kids here costs too much. So when I got pregnant late last year, I thought I was prepared. I knew the statistics, knew the policy, had spent years demanding better from City Hall. How hard could it be? I was completely wrong.

The mornings are getting chillier, the sun is slipping below the horizon earlier and it's time to break out the sweaters. That means autumn is officially nearing, bringing with it some excellent fall festivals that we've been looking forward to for months, especially during those sweltering summer days. Both the Feast of San Gennaro and Oktoberfest celebrations kick off this week, treating New Yorkers to some of the best eating and drinking all year long.

In 2020, a 10-year-old boy was killed by a truck driver while walking to school with his mother in Corona, Queens. In 2021, a driver killed one child and seriously injured another in front of a school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In 2022, a 15-year-old girl was killed by a school bus driver in front of James Madison High School in Sheepshead Bay.

Join Kehillat Harlem (2248 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.), a partnership-style shul uptown, for Maariv evening services on Monday, Sep. 22 at 6:30 p.m and Rosh Hashanah dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 23, also at 6:30 p.m. Childcare will be provided for morning services on Sept. 23 and Sept. 24, which run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Kehillat Harlem is also hosting Yom Kippur services (and break fast) on Wednesday, Oct. 1 and Thursday, Oct. 2.

I visited New York City probably 100 times before moving here. Growing up in a nearby suburb from ages 2 to 10, my family took me into the big city every month or so. Even then, I knew it was eventually where I wanted to live. By 2006, we had moved to a Texas suburb outside Dallas, still visiting the Big Apple multiple times each year. In 2013, I moved to Austin for college and remained there until I relocated to NYC in 2019 to pursue a career in media.

You're not alone. Since the end of New York's COVID-19 eviction moratorium in 2022, eviction rates have increased significantly. According to data compiled from the city's marshals, there were 9,615 evictions from January through June in 2025, up 18 percent from the same period in 2024, and up 474 percent from 2022. If you're worried about being included in those statistics, this guide is for you.

On a recent morning, as the late August sun began to beat down, a few dozen New Yorkers stood in the shade of one of the nearly 500 trees adorning Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park, worrying a bit about hurting its feelings. We had already identified the species bald cypress thanks to its feathered leaves and strong pyramidal shape, measured its trunk's circumference (17in; 43cm), and noted that its roots appeared normal, its leaves were healthy and its branches had suffered some damage from improper pruning.

Most people think of New York City, and their wallets start to tremble. It's a city synonymous with sky-high prices-the kind of place where a single cocktail can cost you a small fortune and a hotel room requires a mortgage. It's easy to feel like you need to be a millionaire just to enjoy the city's vibrant energy. But what if I told you that this perception is just a half-truth?

Progressives were elated when Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani won an upset victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democrats' New York mayoral primary this past June. The 33-year-old self-described socialist's win "sends a clear message," Jared Abbott in . "A bold populist campaign and a laser-like focus on economic issues can break through to voters, even when insiders, billionaires, and the party establishment line up in opposition.

Mark your calendar: Wednesday, September 17, 2025, will be the final day the sun sets at or after 7pm in New York City. Sunset will officially hit at 7:01pm, with sunrise at 6:38 am-just over 12 hours and 22 minutes of daylight. Consider it your last chance to leave the office and still pretend you've got hours of daylight left.

In 2020, during the midst of COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, the murder of George Floyd and a surge of Confederate statue removals, discussions about monuments became frequent in teacher David Felsen's New York City high school history class. The discussions struck up a series of questions-like who was the first Black American to have a monument in NYC, the total number of Black monuments in the city, or how many Black women have statues dedicated to them.

Mamdani's polling shows he leads the five-way race with nearly 42% of the vote, followed by Cuomo at 23.4% and Sliwa at 16.5%. Undecided voters represent 7.9% of the sample.

Cracker Barrel is hosting a pop-up in New York City featuring chicken and dumplings, line dancing, lawn games, and a free concert by Jordan Davis.

Dating in New York is actually awesome. Not because it's easy. It's messy and chaotic and everyone is perpetually 15 minutes late to a first date and maybe still in love with their ex.

The Campbell in Grand Central Terminal, once the private office of financier John W. Campbell, is a romantic enclave that captures the nostalgia of New York's Jazz Age with its hand-painted ceilings and stone fireplace.

"The present situation is intolerable and all other proposed solutions of it are uneconomic, disruptive, unhealthy, non-urban or impractical," they wrote.

The Hypegolf Clubhouse reimagines the traditional golf clubhouse, creating a space where golf, fashion, and community come together, aiming to modernize the golf experience.

New York City is investing billions in workforce development yet continues to overlook three of its most powerful, scalable, and community-rooted workforce engines: the arts, public libraries, and the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP).

Jamel Childs, 35, and Marvin St. Louis, 19, seen arguing before the shooting in Taste of the City Lounge, led to their fatalities, while a bystander was also killed.

Gun violence of this magnitude takes a devastating toll on communities and requires collective efforts to gather information and support police investigations to address crime effectively.