Elizabeth Shwe

Your employer may grant you paid sick leave for yourself or a family member, but what about your pets?City Councilmember Shaun Abreu represents the 7th Council District in Uptown Manh...

New York City’s subway system is turning 120 years old on Sunday, and the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn has a new exhibit called “The Subway Is…” in honor of the system...

New York City’s health commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan is stepping down today, a few months earlier than his original plan to leave in December.  He has been health commissioner since M...

The Park Slope Food Co-op is a Brooklyn grocery store owned by community members, each of whom have to work shifts in exchange for being able to shop there. It's one of the oldest and...

Recent deaths near nightlife venues on the border of Brooklyn and Queens have spooked some city residents. While the NYPD says there is no foul play in these cases, many people have e...

Jersey City, New Jersey’s second largest city, is joining a state program called “ARRIVE together”. Jersey City will pair mental health professionals with police officers responding t...

Sunset Park, Brooklyn is home to a diverse group, loosely divided into two sections. Along 5th Avenue to the west, restaurants cater to the neighborhood's predominantly Mexican popula...

Recent research shows that pregnancy related health risks persist for a full year after childbirth itself, such as postpartum depression. The New York City Council recently passed a p...

Walking the streets of New York City is something millions of people do everyday. But what about walking every single street in New York City?That’s what Matt Green just finished a fe...

Psychedelic drugs are often known as “party drugs,” but recently researchers have been looking into how psychedelics could be used as medical treatments for hard to treat conditions.T...

New York City’s interim police commissioner Thomas Donlon is facing a federal probe after just 10 days on the job. Donlon was hired after his predecessor Edward Caban resigned amid an...

We are marking the 50th anniversary of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker. The massive biography of New York’s longtime “master builder” Robert Moses was published in 1974. It became a mu...

New York City is hosting its inaugural National Urban Rat Summit this Wednesday and Thursday, where experts can connect and share best practices on rodent mitigation. Jody Gangloff-Ka...

Federal authorities are still investigating Mayor Adams’ inner circle as well as former NYPD commissioner Edward Caban and his twin brother. Caban stepped down yesterday, a week after...

As the region and the nation mark the Anniversary of the September 11th attacks, some survivors are still dealing with the health effects from exposure to the toxic pollutants in the ...

There will be 41 million members of Gen Z eligible to vote this year, and both Democrats and Republicans have been making an effort to win this large voting bloc.  We wanted to learn ...

Federal prosecutors say a New York state official who worked for Governor Kathy Hochul and former Governor Andrew Cuomo was secretly an agent for the Chinese government — and made mil...

Changes are coming in New Jersey to how police respond to mental health crises and how rape kits are handled.

We talk about conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute about how Republicans took in this year's Democratic National Convention.

The City Council has approved a rezoning plan for an area of the East Bronx to facilitate the creation of 7,000 new homes amid the city's affordability crisis.