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Artist Néstor Omar García spent 22 days working from swing scaffolds to paint a 307-foot-tall mural depicting a block party scene on the side of a South Bronx building. The mural is described as the tallest in the country.
A proposed New York City law would require Amazon to classify delivery drivers like Luc Rene as direct employees rather than workers for subcontracted delivery companies. Rene and other drivers currently wear Amazon-branded uniforms and drive Amazon-logoed vans despite being employed through the company's network of third-party delivery service partners.
New York City's Halloween parade, expected to draw 80,000 costumed participants and 2 million spectators, will end just eight hours before the TCS New York City Marathon begins with 60,000 runners and 2.5 million spectators. The Department of Sanitation will deploy hundreds of trucks and workers overnight to clean and prepare city streets for the marathon, even though the two events' routes do not overlap.
A newly launched, trending website lets diners search which New York City restaurants are owned by private equity firms rather than independent operators. The tool compiles ownership data so consumers can see which establishments have been acquired by investment firms.
Christopher Payne spent years photographing the factories and maintenance facilities where New York City's subway cars and buses are built, repaired and stored. His images are now featured in a public exhibit across the city, showing riders spaces they normally never see.
SpaceX's Gabriela Castillo Madrid will testify remotely before the New York City Council's tech committee on Friday at 10 a.m. ET, after the company initially avoided a subpoena and skipped an October 5 hearing attended by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta. SpaceX agreed to appear this week once the council threatened judicial enforcement of its subpoena.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced a deal on Tuesday to ban horse-drawn carriages from operating in the city, including Central Park. The move would end a practice that has drawn controversy for more than a century and that previous mayors failed to eliminate despite repeated attempts.
Police say three people were seen climbing into a Manhattan manhole on Sunday, the latest in a string of at least eight similar incidents in New York City and on Long Island since May. Authorities describe the activity as both dangerous and illegal, though the motive behind it remains unclear.
SpaceX has agreed to appear before the New York City Council's tech committee on Friday as part of an investigation into AI safety risks, after initially skipping an Oct. 5 hearing attended by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta. Council Speaker Julie Menin had issued a subpoena to Elon Musk and SpaceX's AI unit, and warned the company she would seek judicial enforcement before SpaceX agreed to comply two days later.
New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has finalized a rule requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily as they signed up. The rule, described as the first of its kind among U.S. municipalities, takes effect October 1, 2026, with violators facing civil penalties starting at $525 and possible consumer refunds.
New York City has implemented a local rule, set by a January executive order and effective Oct. 1, requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily as they signed up. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the measure alongside city officials, and the city launched a webpage where residents can file complaints against companies, including those not based in NYC, and request remedies like refunds and cancellations.
ICANN announced that starting in 2026, anyone can register new top-level domains, expanding beyond existing options like .com and .org. This includes the possibility of creating entirely new domains such as .word, with over a thousand already in use, and existing domains like .porn and .horse gaining more prominence. The decision follows a period of regulatory updates aimed at increasing domain diversity and innovation on the internet.