Jonathan Custodio

The borough has long been home to Puerto Ricans, who began arriving there in large numbers in the 1950s.

This year, the city opened 155 early voting sites, where New Yorkers encountered smooth sailing and short lines.

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Despite long lines at scattered polling stations, turnout in NYC is high, with voters eagerly casting their ballots after a hard-fought race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris.

While nearly 600,000 fewer voters backed the Democrat than last time, some of the nearly 100,000 more voters who backed the Republican had a lot to say about their reasons and hopes.

Firefighters have responded to more than 200 brush fires in the past two weeks, including nearly two dozen in Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx, as the city reckons with an historically dry and fiery season.

The Amateur Astronomers Association said the city's demands for its insurance coverage proved unworkable.

New York State is driving a $900 million effort to “transform” the highway to accommodate bridge repair work. Advocates and locals are trying to hit the brakes.

The stately public library branch Andrew Carnegie paid to build in 1914 reopened this month after more than three years — with a new floor to go toward finally replacing stories lost to a fire decades ago.

The Economic Development Corporation's pick of Maddd Equities and Joy Construction elevates hopes that decades of revival schemes finally come to fruition — and concerns about a contractor's safety record.