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The Long Term Care Workforce Support Act calls for increasing salaries to attract people to the profession. Proposed by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the bill also calls for $100 billion in federal grants and to improve labor protections.

Beloved children’s YouTube star Ms Rachel said she wants to give New York City Mayor Eric Adams a lesson in early childhood funding. Ms Rachel, who has nearly 10 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, is calling out Adams for cuts to education programs and proposed cuts. “Here in New York City, our mayor cut $400 million from early...

The New York state Legislature’s bill drafting office has been hit with an apparent cyberattack. The scope of the attack early Wednesday morning was not immediately clear but officials said the bill drafting system was down. The office is responsible for printing legislation for lawmakers at the state Capitol in Albany. The apparent cyberattack cam...

The president of Columbia University took a firm stand against antisemitism Wednesday as she parried accusations from Republicans who see the New York campus as a hotbed of bias — but she hedged on whether certain phrases invoked by some supporters of Palestinians rise to harassment. Nemat Shafik had the benefit of hindsight and months of pre...

New Jersey will get a share of the money when Manhattan’s congestion pricing plan goes into effect this summer, MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber announced Wednesday. Lieber didn’t specify how much, but it figures to be millions of dollars for key counties like Bergen and Hudson — and likely several others. He said New Jersey’s share wo...

We’ll leave the quipping to the NYC Department of Buildings on this one: “Well, this wasn’t in the blueprint.” A concrete pump collapsed as it poured concrete at a new 23-story building in Gowanus, landing precariously between the top of two buildings with the street in full view below, DOB said Wednesday. No one was hurt. D...

Police continue to search for the two gunmen who shot four people Tuesday evening in the Bronx while riding on the back of scooters, the NYPD said. The two gunmen were passengers on the back of scooters moving down Mt. Eden Ave. just after 6 p.m. when they open fire on four men standing on the corner at Townsend Ave,…

Alaska Airlines flights will face delays throughout Wednesday after the company earlier requested a ground stop nationwide due to technical issues, the airline said. “This morning we experienced an issue while performing an upgrade to the system that calculates our weight and balance,” the airline told NBC News. The FAA said the airline...

An on-duty police officer was involved in a crash near the Jersey Shore that left a scooter operator dead, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said.

Fresh from a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump visited a Hamilton Heights bodega where a man was stabbed to death in 2022, a stark pivot for the former president as he juggles being a criminal defendant and the Republican challenger intent on blaming President Joe Biden for crime.

NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

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The NYPD is looking for a man they say randomly attacked a woman with a hockey stick on Tuesday in the East Village.