The City Reporter

Hundreds of pages of evidence issued by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection offer a glimpse at how brokers are breaking the law, according to the agency enforcing the FARE Act.

Some principals of schools in shared buildings are pooling resources to offer advanced classes. (via @ChalkbeatNY)

Parks advocates and experts point to a combination of factors behind the city’s shuttered bathrooms, including chronic underfunding, state contracting laws that can complicate repairs and a lack of urgency from City Hall.

The City Reporter revealed that the corporation that owns the site had paved it over and was renting it out as a parking lot. The account inspired a wave of outrage by local leaders at what they saw as a disrespectful treatment of the site.

NEW: In a year and a half, officials issued $60,000 in penalties against people violating the FARE Act.

It’s believed the Elmhurst site was the resting place for more than 30 freed slaves.

At New York City’s hundreds of public ballfields and soccer pitches, casual pick-up players are feeling the squeeze as demand surges for organized games, practices and sports clinics.

The City University relies more heavily on part-time professors as a portion of its teaching workforce than the national average. CUNY adjuncts say they’re struggling without their paychecks.

The system uses beeps and flashing lights to tell bus drivers a person or object is too close.

You might have seen one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's 17 new public restrooms across the city. But there's already nearly 70 restrooms waiting on repairs.

“We’ve kept the spirit of baseball going — to not forget our culture — because this is all gentrified, and this is the little bit that we have left."

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m on Election Day.

The blow to minimum wage workers comes as the city’s economy falters. Data released last week by city Comptroller Mark Levine shows that the city has lost private sector jobs over the past 12 months.

A report on the new law’s implementation was due in June, but city officials say it won’t reach the mayor’s desk until next month.

Old-timers vie with newcomers for city ballfields as demand for field reservations has boomed with the growth of organized sports. (with @PuddingViz)

LISTEN: COGE Commissioner Emma Wolfe and Executive Director Ann Cheng visit the podcast to explain the questions on the back of every NYC ballot.

Despite inflation that has pushed up prices in the New York area by 4% in the last year, low-wage workers won’t see an expected increase in the city’s $17 an hour minimum wage on Jan. 1.

After more than a month of requests, Chalkbeat obtained the list of products flagged by the Education Dept. It includes widely used reading and math curriculums, student assessment tools and even a chatbot the agency itself developed. (via @ChalkbeatNY)

The federal agency has sent critical funding to the state after Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Ida and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The project comes with an outlandish price tag, and there’s a cost in focusing so much attention on the oft-proposed but never-built development as well, experts tell The City Reporter.