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Hundreds of NYC cooling towers were cited for Legionella testing violations since last year

See more of our coverage in your search results. Hundreds of cooling towers around the Big Apple were dinged by health inspectors over issues relating to Legionella testing since last year, The Post has learned.


Nearly 250 water cooling towers – more than half of which are in Manhattan – were issued violations after the health department found Legionella samples were “not collected, analyzed or results [were] not reported” to the health department, as mandated by law, since Jan. 1, 2025....
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Exclusive | Trendy NYC nabe sees 37% surge in rat sightings in 2026 — even as reports dip citywide

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Manhattan’s East Village is experiencing a rodent resurgence with a whopping 37.6% increase in rat sightings year over year — even as reports fell dramatically citywide this year, according to Big Apple public records.

Community Board 3 in Manhattan — comprised of the East Village, the Lower East Side, Two Bridges and swaths of Chinatown — saw the critters surging despite significant investments in trash containerization and other...
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Exclusive | Family of teen tourist killed in NYC horse carriage horror urges City Council to ‘do the right thing’ ahead of landmark hearing

See more of our coverage in your search results. The family of the teen tourist tragically killed when he was thrown from a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park is urging the City Council to “do the right thing” and ban the iconic rides ahead of a landmark hearing Wednesday.


Hundreds of people have signed up to testify at the hearing over a proposed bill — re-named “Romanch’s Law” following 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan’s June 16 death — that would phase out the 160-year-old industry for good...
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Exclusive | Over half the cooling towers in NYC Legionnaires’ outbreak area issued violations in recent months: records

See more of our coverage in your search results. More than half of the Upper East Side water cooling towers under investigation for a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak were dinged by health officials during their latest inspections, The Post has learned.


The violations — issued between March 2025 and March 2026 at roughly 59% of the cooling centers in the three zip codes under the city’s probe — include failing to perform regular monitoring and cleaning and failing to submit Legionella test re...
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Exclusive | Buckling building in Midtown NYC will face partial demolition — but even stabilizing it beforehand will be highly risky: experts

See more of our coverage in your search results. The Midtown high-rise that dangerously buckled Tuesday will need to be partially demolished — although stabilizing it to even attempt the risky move could prove extremely harrowing, experts told The Post.

The 37-story former Pfizer headquarters at 235 E. 42nd St. near Second Avenue will first need to be stabilized as soon as possible to prevent a possible localized collapse, they said.

Without intervention, it poses a “significant danger” and...
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Exclusive | Buckling building in Midtown NYC will face partial demolition — but even stabilizing it beforehand will be highly risky: experts

See more of our coverage in your search results. The Midtown high-rise that dangerously buckled Tuesday will need to be partially demolished — although stabilizing it to even attempt the risky move could prove extremely harrowing, experts told The Post.


The 37-story former Pfizer headquarters at 235 E. 42nd St. near Second Avenue will first need to be stabilized as soon as possible to prevent a possible localized collapse, they said.


Without intervention, it poses a “significant danger”...
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Crews work to prop up Midtown NYC high-rise that suddenly buckled — as cause remains a mystery

See more of our coverage in your search results. Construction crews worked all Wednesday to prop up the Manhattan high-rise that suddenly buckled — but what caused the terrifying structural failure still remained a mystery.


Temporary shoring and beams were completely installed on the afflicted East 42nd Street building’s 18th through 23rd floors during the morning after the structure stopped shaking and stabilized, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters during an unrelated press conference....
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Exclusive | Midtown building evacuated over collapse fears is riddled with prior  ‘safety’ issues: records

See more of our coverage in your search results. The buckling Midtown hi-rise dramatically evacuated over collapse fears Tuesday was cited for a slew of dangerous construction safety violations last year, The Post has learned.


The city Department of Buildings slapped seven violations on the 38-story commercial building at 235 E. 42nd St. near Second Avenue between July and December 2025, resulting in a total of more than $32,000 in fines, agency records show.


The violations included the...
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Exclusive | Midtown building evacuated over collapse fears is riddled with prior  ‘safety’ issues: records

See more of our coverage in your search results. The buckling Midtown hi-rise dramatically evacuated over collapse fears Tuesday was cited for a slew of dangerous construction safety violations last year, The Post has learned.


The city Department of Buildings slapped seven violations on the 38-story commercial building at 235 E. 42nd St. near Second Avenue between July and December 2025, resulting in a total of more than $32,000 in fines, agency records show.


The violations included the...
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3 NYC residents died from heat during last week’s scorcher, new figures show

See more of our coverage in your search results. Three New York City residents tragically died during last week’s extreme heat wave, City Hall said Monday.


The trio died in their homes over the weekend, when temperatures soared to near-triple digits, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rep, Joe Calvello.


“Our hearts are with their families and loved ones,” Calvello said in a statement.


The names of the deceased were not immediately made available.

At least 22 suspected heat-related...
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3 NYC residents died from heat during last week’s scorcher, new figures show

See more of our coverage in your search results. Three New York City residents tragically died during last week’s extreme heat wave, City Hall said Monday.


The trio died in their homes over the weekend, when temperatures soared to near-triple digits, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rep, Joe Calvello.


“Our hearts are with their families and loved ones,” Calvello said in a statement.


The names of the deceased were not immediately made available.

At least 22 suspected heat-related...
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NYC axes new rule on roll-down gates for businesses – after retailers already spent thousands

See more of our coverage in your search results. City lawmakers rolled back an obscure, decades-old law about storefront roll-down gates ahead of a looming enforcement deadline – but not before some retailers shelled out thousands of dollars in upgrades.


The city scrambled to axe the measure ahead of a July 1 deadline, agreeing Tuesday to shelve the law, which would force businesses to install security gates that are least 70% transparent.


The law was passed in 2009 as a supposed anti-gr...
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Knicks’ championship run gave 20% boost to NYC’s nightlife economy: ‘Never seen anything like this!’

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The New York Knicks injected new life into the city’s bar economy, as more than half of NYC watering holes reported an at least 20% increase in revenue during the team’s NBA Finals run, according to a new survey released by the New York Hospitality Alliance.


The industry report, released Wednesday, surveyed roughly 100 businesses across bar, restaurant and nightlife sectors – with a whopping 90% of eateries repo...
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‘Shame stickers’ for bad NYC parkers are back after years-long ban

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Fluorescent “shame stickers” are set to make a comeback in the Big Apple for the first time in over a decade — to bully drivers who ignore alternate side parking rules.


The City Council rubber-stamped Intro-92, which allows street sweepers to once again apply neon adhesive stickers to the drivers-side window of cars found skirting the law, following a 41-10 vote Tuesday.


“This vehicle violates NYC par...
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Massive NYC pool shuttered for repairs – for second year in a row – amid extreme heat wave

See more of our coverage in your search results. One of the city’s largest pools will be closed during this week’s scorching heat wave and for most of next month because of “unforeseen” mechanical issues – the second straight year the aging community “lifeline” has suffered a shutdown.


The popular Red Hook Pool, among five Olympic-sized tubs in Brooklyn, did not open to the public during the citywide outdoor pool opening day Saturday “due to the sudden, unforeseen failure of mechanical equi...
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NYC’s demolition of iconic steam plant used in Marvel series violated its own asbestos rules: records

See more of our coverage in your search results. The demolition of an iconic Manhattan steam plant that served as the filming location for several Marvel streaming series has been halted because the city violated its own asbestos rules.


Work on the 87-year-old, city-owned Roosevelt Island steam plant — set to be razed under a plan managed by the city Housing and Preservation Department — was halted after an inspection by Big Apple environmental authorities earlier this month, according to a...
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Exclusive | NYC’s cooling splash pads facing ‘outages’ in record numbers – with dozens of playgrounds affected

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The beloved spray showers used by tiny tots to cool off during the hot summer months in city parks have been reportedly out of service in record numbers at dozens of green spaces this summer – and parents are fuming.


Parks officials recently lamented that the city is grappling with “dozens of sprinkler outages” and the department has “very few staff resources for repairs,” according to emails from the agency obtained by...
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Exclusive | Construction of jail in tony NYC nabe turns into potentially deadly ‘clown show’ with failling debris: records, locals

See more of our coverage in your search results. The city’s construction of a new jail in posh Boerum Hill has devolved into a potentially deadly “clown show” — raining rooftop concrete, buckets and sheet metal onto the street, according to records and locals.


The problem-plagued project, one of several jails being built around the Big Apple to replace decrepit Rikers Island, was recently slapped with its fourth stop-work order in two years for such violations as allegedly letting “dangerou...
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NYC’s miraculously saved ‘Alice in Wonderland’ hospital mural goes on public display for first time

A stunning New Deal-era mural of “Alice in Wonderland” characters that was dramatically rescued from a shuttered Manhattan hospital is now on public display for the first time.


The whimsical, sweeping panel series, dubbed “Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York,” was created between 1938 and 1940 by New York artist Abram Champanier as part of a federally funded WPA project for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, where many young patients were being treated for tuberculosis on the Lower...
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Exclusive | Dogs barking up trouble at NYC eateries in record numbers — and one brazen UES bakery is fetching hundreds of complaints

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Complaints of pooches sniffing around Big Apple eateries — roaming aisles, licking produce and even tussling with patrons — have surged to the highest levels on record, according to a Post review of city data.


New Yorkers’ 311 calls about four-legged customers entering bakeries, grocery stores and restaurants have doubled in two years, jumping to a whopping 1,525 in 2025, from just 683 complaints in 2023....
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NYC residents in hot nabe demand judges give up parking lot to provide crucial amenity

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Dozens of Brooklynites rallied Sunday to urge the city to finally transform a downtown parking lot used by judges into what it was officially designated for — parkland.

For decades, the jurists and their staff have been using the three dozen parking spots covering forgotten Columbus Park in concrete and refusing to budge, local city Councilman Lincoln Restler told The Post.

“Generation of judges … have just prioritize...
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Dilapidated FDNY firehouses plagued by huge leaks, collapsed ceilings, mold and more

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Struggling firefighters in Queens are waging a constant battle of collapsed ceilings, leaky roofs, mold plagues and other concerning conditions in their very own firehouses.


The Post toured three of the FDNY’s decrepit beachfront stations in The Rockaways Friday — each of which are in such severe states that they could collapse any moment, officials warn.


The firehouses — including one that stands on stilts and...
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Exclusive | NYC Council fighting back on Mamdani’s parks budget cuts — with plan to fund hundreds more quality of life officers

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The City Council is pushing back against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s cuts to the Parks Department — seeking to fund an additional 200 officers to monitor quality-of-life issues across the Big Apple’s green spaces, The Post has learned.

The 11th-hour push comes after the mayor’s executive budget plan, unveiled earlier this month, called to slash one-third of the Parks Enforcement Patrol’s existing fleet of 350 officers....
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Exclusive | NYC reviews old construction codes to push more building, spark upgrades

See more of our coverage in your search results. The Big Apple is planning to overhaul its decades-old building codes to spark new construction and accessibility upgrades by finding “cost savings” measures for developers, The Post has learned.


The plan will be rolled out under a Department of Buildings-led “Affordable & Efficient Code Reform” task force starting in late 2026, part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “Block by Block” master housing plan set to be unveiled Tuesday morning.


It could...
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