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PoliticsNew York City Is Switching Off AI for 600,000 Students. Even the Reading Software Loses Its Brain
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year ban on student-facing generative AI from pre-K through eighth grade, plus hard screen-time caps. The city is disabling AI features inside 38 ed-tech contracts to enforce it.
PoliticsA Staten Island Judge Froze Mamdani's Pied-à-Terre Tax and Ordered a Million-Property Tax Roll Pulled Offline
Justice Wayne Ozzi granted a restraining order to three homeowners who say the city wrongly flagged their primary residences. The city appealed within hours, which suspends the order until the appeal is resolved.
Top NewsA 78-Year-Old Woman Dies and 21 Firefighters Are Hurt as a Five-Alarm Fire Tears Through Three Flushing Homes
The blaze started on the first floor of a 1930s wood-frame house on 41st Road and jumped to neighboring buildings within two hours, displacing multiple families.
Top NewsNYPD Charges Raul Morales With Hate Crimes in Pair of Upper West Side Stabbings
A 57-year-old Asian man was stabbed in the back and a 50-year-old Jewish man had a screwdriver driven into his chest within minutes of each other near Central Park. Both are expected to survive.
Top NewsA Legionnaires' Outbreak on Manhattan's Upper East Side Grows to 46 Cases as 31 Buildings Flush Their Cooling Towers
New York City health officials have ordered dozens of buildings in Carnegie Hill, Yorkville and Lenox Hill to disinfect cooling towers found to harbor Legionella bacteria, with 22 people hospitalized so far.
Top NewsSteel Beams Buckle in a 37-Story Midtown Tower, Forcing Mass Evacuations at the Old Pfizer Headquarters
Two support beams on the 21st floor of the former Pfizer HQ at 235 East 42nd Street began bending under a rooftop expansion, sagging floors and triggering a nine-building evacuation.
WatchTop NewsMasked Gunman Opens Fire on Coney Island July 4 Barbecue, Wounding 8 Including 4 Children
A shooter dressed in black and wearing a ski mask sprayed a family cookout along Surf Avenue in Brooklyn late Saturday, leaving a 21-year-old woman in critical condition. No arrests have been made.
Top NewsKataib Hezbollah Commander Charged in Plot to Attack New York City Jewish Targets
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi accused of leading European attacks and planning retaliation campaign by Iran.
Top NewsChelsea Manning, Actor Hari Nef Among 90 Arrested in NYC as Anti-War Protesters Target Schumer Over Israel Arms Sales
Jewish Voice for Peace led more than 300 demonstrators to the Manhattan offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to demand they block a $100 billion Iran war funding request and halt bomb transfers to Israel.