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Queens Ledger
Published September 09Queens Faces “Operation Rotten Apple”
The Department of Homeland Security is ramping up ICE raids in some of Queens’ most diverse neighborhoods. Here’s how the surge is affecting immigrant communities. BY ROMAN BROSZKOWSKI & COLE SINANIAN news@queensledger.com Federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Gothamist
Published September 09Standing on the Corner's music honors the ghosts of New York City
Gio Escobar, lower left with guitar, with Standing on the Corner. The group's frontman Gio Escobar met Gothamist at the 9/11 Memorial to explain the inspiration behind the experimental collective’s new album that, ironically, feels so full of life. [ more › ]
THE CITY
Published September 09Mamdani Hires New Early Childhood Education Chief With Free 2-K Program About To Start
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. With just two days until the start of the new school year and a preschool payment crisis still simmering, Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday named a new leader for the beleaguered…
Gothamist
Published September 09Trying to find free childcare in NYC? This guide can help.
Father dropping off son at Daycare for Pizza Party, Queens, New York. New Yorkers United for Child Care is launching a guide to help parents. [ more › ]
Gothamist
Published September 09Early Addition: Don’t put away that beach towel just yet, it’s still summer in the Rockaways
Shelter Serra did a tiny, immaculate, traditional castle. An iconic sandcastle competition returns to the Rockaways for the first time in over a decade, here are your early links: Jake’s Dilemma in the Upper West Side is closing, Midtown’s Carnegie Deli is reopening, Duolingo…
Gothamist
Published September 09After deadly Times Square violence, a bill emerges to better deliver assistance
New York Police Department officers investigate the scene after police shot and killed a knife-wielding woman who stabbed two people, killing one of them, in a random attack near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Times Square on August 31, 2026. Pending legislation aims to…
Gothamist
Published September 09NYC students face AI ban in new school year. Implementing it will be a challenge.
PS41Q The Crocheron School, Bayside Queens, New York. Schools are now tasked with carrying out the ban and disciplining students who break the rules. [ more › ]
Gothamist
Published September 09How New Yorkers teach a generation removed to 'Never Forget' 9/11
People attend the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Sept. 11, 2021 in New York City. Passing on the tales of 9/11 takes all different forms. [ more › ]
Gothamist
Published September 09New renderings of the MTA's IBX project serving Brooklyn, Queens are out
A newly released rendering of the Interborough Express linking Brooklyn and Queens via light rail. Here's an early look at what some stations on the Interborough Express could look like. [ more › ]
THE CITY
Published September 09‘Double Squeeze’: New York Safety Net Frays Amid SNAP and Medicaid Cuts
Fourteen months after Donald Trump signed the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill to provide billions in tax cuts while seeking to reduce the cost of programs like SNAP food aid and Medicaid, the South Asian Council for Social Services in Queens is trying to help families who are…
Queens Ledger
Published September 08NY International Looks to Deepen Roots in Astoria
Local soccer club hopes to revitalize Con Edison Field but draws opposition By Noah Zimmerman noah@queensledger.com ASTORIA – Con Edison Field is a grass soccer pitch located near the northernmost tip of Western Queens, right next to the utility company’s Astoria generating…
THE CITY
Published September 08Newly Opened Records Show Fears Over Air Quality After 9/11 Attacks
In the months after the Sept. 11 attack, New York City set up a hotline for residents and workers in Lower Manhattan who had questions about what to do, and how they could get help, as they eased back into their lives downtown. A resident of 22 River Terrace in Battery Park City…