Articles by Bobby Caina Calvan, Jennifer Peltz and JAKE OFFENHARTZ

Associated Press

New York Drying Out After Soaking by Record Rainfall

New York City began drying out Saturday after being soaked by one of its wettest days in decades, as city dwellers dried out basements and traffic resumed on highways, railways and airports that were temporarily shuttered by Friday`s severe rainfall. …

As E-Bikes Proliferate, So Do Deadly Fires Blamed on Exploding Batteries

The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in apartments above the burning store. As …

America’s Venice? Study Finds New York City Is Slowly Sinking From Its Own Weight

If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, asphalt and humanity itself. New research estimates the city’s landmass is sinking at …

University Employees Say They Were Fired for Using ‘He/Him,’ ‘She/Her’ in Emails

Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are unconventional, which explains why they attached gender identities to their work email signatures. Wilmot uses “he/him.” Zelaya goes …

After Parking Garage Deadly Collapse, New York City Partly Shutters Four Others

After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated to the point where …

Manhattan Parking Garage Collapse Kills 1, Injures 5

A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, killing one worker, injuring five and crushing cars as concrete floors fell on top of each other like a stack of pancakes, officials said. Vehicles tumbled into what looked like …

New York City Goes After Landlords as Part of Illegal Pot Shops Crackdown

In a renewed push to snuff out New York City’s thriving illegal cannabis market, Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan’s top prosecutor announced Tuesday that they would go after landlords who allow hundreds of illicit shops to operate. During a news …

Critics Hit Marketing of Flavored Cannabis Products They Say Targets Kids

When New York’s first licensed recreational marijuana outlet opened last month, the chief of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management, Chris Alexander, proudly hoisted a tin of watermelon-flavored gummies above the crowd. Outside the Manhattan shop, he displayed another purchase …

Frustration and Desperation Mount as Ian’s Effects Linger

Days after the skies cleared and the winds died down in Florida, Hurricane Ian’s effects persisted Monday, as people faced another week without power and others were being rescued from homes inundated with lingering floodwaters. Ten additional deaths were blamed …

In Ian’s Wake, Dangers Worsen in Parts of Florida

People kayaking down streets that were passable just a day or two earlier. Hundreds of thousands without power. National Guard helicopters flying rescue missions to residents still stranded on Florida’s barrier islands. Days after Hurricane Ian carved a path of …