NYC is loosening Eric Adams’ preschool curriculum mandate, allowing providers to seek approved alternatives while keeping the controversial GOLD assessment system.

A Manhattan judge ordered Rudy Giuliani to sit for a December deposition in a $10 million sexual-assault lawsuit. The judge is also pushing both sides toward settlement.

Whole Foods is taking over a long-vacant Yorkville storefront for a smaller neighborhood market beneath a 36-story residential tower.

A 71-year-old Marine Park man was robbed at gunpoint while getting into his car, police said. The thief got away with his watch, wallet and about $780.

EncoreAI has raised $30 million and moved its headquarters from Israel to Manhattan, with plans to build a 40-person New York team.

After losing her son off Jacob Riis Beach, a Flatbush mother is pushing water-safety education, swim lessons and a memorial forward.

A 78-year-old woman was shoved and injured inside Manhattan’s 14 Street subway station. NYPD Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment.

Bill Ackman’s foundation has bought 125 West End Avenue to build the Ackman Oxman Institute, a new brain‑research campus on the Upper West Side.

The MTA has already overspent its overtime budget by $176 million, with nearly 1,000 workers earning more in overtime than base pay.

FIFA wants to raise up to $4.2 billion by selling minority stakes in a new World Cup commercial company. UEFA says the plan crosses a line.

DOB ordered a stop‑work at 222 Broadway after contractors reported cracked concrete beams on an upper floor, pausing the Financial District conversion to hundreds of apartments.

East Harlem just got a rare MTA victory lap. The Park Avenue Viaduct rebuild wrapped early, under budget and without Metro-North chaos.

Genius AI nearly doubled its Union Square footprint with a roughly 14,000‑square‑foot expansion at 838 Broadway as it rebrands and raises fresh funding.