New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will introduce legislation to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to compel more mentally ill people into treatment.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says the recent surge in violence in the subway "cannot continue." She says she will include new legislation in the executive budget to change New York's involuntary commitment ...

The governor said she is taking several steps to help fix the problem as she believes many crimes are linked to untreated mental illness.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is leaning into the low-tech upgrade of lining subway platforms with metal barriers ...

NEW YORK CITY - People in New York City are on edge after multiple subway stabbings happened this week. The MTA said felony assaults on the rails are up 65% from 2019 to 2024. In 2019, there were a ...

The move comes after several high-profile violent incidents in the New York City subway system, including the death of a ...

After a number of horrifying attacks in the subway in recent weeks, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday said she’d introduced bills ...

Add to those homicides and too-high felony assault totals property crimes, and the stubbornly high presence of unstable, seriously mentally ill individuals on platforms and trains, and the subways ...

A former prosecutor said that Haliey Welch is distancing herself as much as possible from the crash of the Hawk Tuah memecoin. Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state murder charges in the ...

New York is just days away from implementing congestion pricing tolls, which will charge drivers to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street. Here’s what you need to know about ...

Daniel Steiner explained how the first street grid in NYC was laid out in Gravesend, Brooklyn, 150 years before Manhattan.

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