In recent months, New York Focus has been reporting on “sewer service,” the term for when plaintiffs in a lawsuit fail to properly inform defendants that they’re being sued. Sewer service is ...

Shoplifting remains a criminal offense under New York state law, prosecuted as larceny. Theft of property valued at $1,000 or less is classified as petit larceny, a Class A misdemeanor, carrying ...

New York City recorded the lowest number of shooting incidents, shooting victims, and homicides in its modern tracking history during the first half of 2025. NYPD data shows 351 shooting incidents, ...

More than a third of New York counties, home to over half of the state’s population, have stopped enrolling eligible parents in the state’s child care voucher program, new data shows. At least 21 ...

Trump’s Assault on Social Services Is Taking Aim at New York’s Elderly Poverty rates among New York’s aging population are rising as the federal government pares back support for longstanding social ...

New York is projected to spend $36,293 per student in the 2024–25 school year, nearly double the national average. In 2023–24, the state spent $35,095 per student on elementary and secondary education ...

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will soon have the clear authority to proactively mail out checks of any size from the $20 billion pot of “lost money” he oversees — but he’s wary of using it too aggressively ...

Are More Working-Class Residents Leaving New York City Than Wealthy Residents? Affordability concerns — especially housing and the cost of raising a family — are major drivers of population loss in ...

New York state significantly undercounted Covid-19 nursing home deaths in 2020 by excluding residents who died in hospitals. This reporting practice made the state’s mortality ranking appear lower ...

New York Public Media Will Lose At Least $57 Million in Federal Funds After Congressional Cuts Nearly $50 million will come specifically from public radio and TV stations, including rural ones that ...

Judge Skewers Hochul Administration Over New York’s Climate Law Delays The judge suggested he’ll rule that the state is violating its climate law.

We live in strange times. The rise of AI, the fall of local newspapers, the increasing willingness of politicians to bend the truth (OK, outright lie), the speed at which falsehoods spread on social ...