The Empire State Building’s observatory is losing visitors as international tourism fades and New York’s skyline fills with competing views.

A bipartisan Senate bill would impose age checks, parental controls and new safety rules on AI companion chatbots used by minors.

Crown Heights tenants say rats are overrunning their apartments despite traps, exterminators and repeated complaints. City records show dozens of complaints and HPD violations at the building.

Brooklyn’s 140-year-old Coney Island sewage plant has completed a $155 million modernization that cuts energy use and strengthens service for nearly 600,000 residents.

An e-bike fire inside a Morrisania apartment sent three people to the hospital Thursday night. FDNY brought the blaze under control quickly as firefighters reached upper floors by ladder.

NYC gets a sunny, muggy Friday and a mostly dry weekend before thunderstorms and possible heavy rain return Sunday night and Monday.

An 18-year-old was stabbed in the lower back while trying to intervene in a fight at a Bronx building. Crime Stoppers is offering up to $3,500 for information leading to an arrest and indictment.

A Queens man was slashed in the arm during an attempted robbery Sunday afternoon. Police are searching for the knife-wielding attacker.

Spike Lee and BAM are launching a two-day Brooklyn festival featuring films, performances, conversations and a free street fair. The weekend closes with Crooklyn.

A Bronx mother and grandmother face murder charges after an autistic teen allegedly died from starvation and neglect. His twin survived.

A Brooklyn developer is pitching 47 apartments near Rockaway’s waterfront, adding another project to Queens’ fast-changing coastal housing landscape.

A Manhattan judge dismissed most claims against Coinbase over token sales but kept a narrower inventory-sales fight alive.

Mamdani and Leila Bozorg toured undisclosed NYC sites tied to a push for thousands of affordable homes on publicly owned land. The visit follows a city effort to identify at least 25,000 potential housing units.