Posted inCity Council
Get to Know Your City Council District and Its 2025 Candidates
Who represents you and who wants the job? How has your district changed? And who are the neighbors voting with you?
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Posted inNo Apps
MAP: See Where AI Mapped Our Stories
As an experiment, we used ChatGPT to determine key locations in each of our stories from April 2019 through September 2023, and created a map of the results.
Posted inAbout Us
We Asked an AI to Map Our Stories Across NYC
THE CITY has a mission to cover neighborhoods in all five boroughs. ChatGPT helped tell us how well we're living up to that goal.
Posted inClimate
Find Out How Much Hotter Your Neighborhood Gets Due to NYC’s Heat Island Effect
A new study finds that 3.8 million New Yorkers experience temperatures at least 10 degrees hotter because of urban development. Enter your address to discover how this impacts you.
Posted inBrooklyn
Making My Force and My Face Known: Queer Wrestlers Enter the Ring in Red Hook
During Pride month, queer and trans wrestlers found self-expression and empowerment facing off at matches organized by A Matter of Pride in Brooklyn.
Posted inCity Government, City Life, Education, Health
How Well Does Your Child’s School Support Student Mental Health?
We tracked dozens of data points on mental health support in NYC schools. Do they call 911 on students in crisis? Are there enough social workers and guidance counselors? Enter your school name below to find out.
Posted inTransit
Name That NYC Subway Station: Round 3
If you’re one of the tens of thousands who took our first two quizzes — or are brand new to this — we have a fresh one for you.
Posted inCity Government
A Third of New York’s Organic Waste Ends Up in Landfills. Here’s a Better Story for How to Dispose of It.
New Yorkers can dump food scraps and other organic material, and even plastic bags, into new bins popping up around the city.
Posted inHousing
Map: See Where NYC Landlords Stopped Registering Rent-Stabilized Units
New data from the housing group JustFix shows thousands of NYC apartments didn’t register as rent-stabilized — even after a 2019 law required continued controls with few exceptions.
Posted inCity Life, Education, Health
Kids Who Lost Parents to COVID, In Their Own Words
More than 8,700 children in New York City are grieving a caregiver or parent who died of COVID. Here’s what they wish others knew.