Politics NY News Headlines Archive for May 16, 2025

Long Island officials sound the alarm on local environmental health

Nassau

Nassau County officials call for EPA funding, improvements to water systems

By Casey Fahrer

A new name for the Third Avenue Bridge

By Abbie Martin Greenbaum

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Bronx candidates talk housing, public safety and casino plan at Throggs Neck forum

By Max Levine Murray

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Brooklyn

NYC Primaries | Meet the candidates in South Brooklyn’s District 47 Council contest

By Abbie Greenbaum

A notice reading: "Plan ahead: potential rail service disruption" is displayed as people look to commute at the Newark-Penn Station, after NJ Transit’s locomotive engineers went on strike at midnight in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., May 16, 2025. NJ transit engineers went on strike.

NJ Transit engineers strike for first time in 40 years, leaving 350,000 NYC/NJ commuters scrambling

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Brooklyn

‘That’s really low’: Brooklyn arts orgs scramble for funding after NEA abruptly cancels grants

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Hundreds convene for the first Bronx Economic Development Summit

Mount Sinai has faced increased attention ever since the hospital first restricted gender-affirming care for youth in the wake of the Trump administration's executive order early last year.

Mount Sinai confirms it would, if required, provide records of trans youth to Trump administration

A Bronx woman who struck and killed a Woodside teenager while she was driving a private sanitation truck on the night of March 29, was arrested on Wednesday, June 3.

Bronx garbage truck driver arrested in fatal Roosevelt Avenue collision that killed Woodside teenager: NYPD

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Council Members demand investigation after Brooklyn courtroom birth