Two neighboring civic associations are on opposite sides of the fence over a potential commercial development in Wyandanch that abuts a Wheatley Heights neighborhood.
The Plainview school placed 21 empty chairs in front of its building, each adorned with a rose and the name of the 19 fourth grade students and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School.
The city’s public housing system, the largest in the nation, has become an emblem of disinvestment and deterioration. But a new deal could lead to needed repairs in 25,000 apartments.
With the prospect of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the New York State Legislature has approved several measures to protect abortion providers. But a proposed equal rights amendment to the state’s constitution guaranteeing a right to the procedure remains stalled.
A proposed law in New York that would allow most conviction records to be automatically sealed after a waiting period passed the State Senate on Wednesday, but its future in the Assembly is less clear.
Current and former energy officials tell CNN they worry that Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the wake of years of underinvestment in the energy sector have sent the world careening into a crisis that will rival or even exceed the oil crises of the 1970s and early 1980s.
