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In March of 2026, New York City began to place new rules regarding the usage of AI within the city’s public schools. These rules affect both the students and teachers, and were framed using a “traffic light” format. The rules are preliminary as of now, and will go through a...

New York City was met with a horrific scene as a plane crashed into a fire truck on March 22, 2026. The truck was headed to examine another plane after reports of it having an alleged “odor” when it collided with the Air Canada flight AC8646. The destructive collision cost...

On Monday, March 23, at about 11 A.M., about 1,000 professors at New York University officially went on strike. They began picketing outside the John A. Paulson Building at NYU. The strikes are due to failed negotiations between the faculty’s union, Contract Faculty United, and NYU administrators. Initially, the deadline...

Last night, March 19, 2026, police were called to a high foot-traffic area near the Apollo Theater in Harlem, after receiving reports of a man driving a red Hyundai Tucson who lost control of his vehicle and crashed multiple times.  The event occurred around 8:05 pm, and police were quick...

On Wednesday morning, March 18, 2026, New York high school student Dylan Lopez Contreras was released from ICE detention. He has been in custody since May of last year after being detained outside a scheduled court hearing at the 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan.  Contreras came to the US...

In 2023, a formal lawsuit was filed against former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, alleging that he sexually abused one of his colleagues while working as a transit cop for the NYPD in 1993. The lawsuit was brought upon under the Adult Survivors Act, a law that allows an...

The morning of March 16, 2026 marked a difficult day for members of the three-story building that resides on College Point Blvd as the building caught fire and resulted in the deaths of four people, including a 3-year-old child. The chaotic fire resulted in many rushing to evacuate, hopping off...

As of March 2026, New York City is currently facing one of the worst fiscal crisis it has seen since the 1970s. It is projected that the city is suffering from a nearly $7 billion budget gap for essential services throughout the city. This budget is for the fiscal years...

Sad news was announced by WABC-TV on Thursday, March 12, 2026, as beloved longtime anchor of Eyewitness News, Ernie Anastos, died at the age of 82. According to his wife, Kelly Anastos, he passed away from pneumonia at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY.  Ernest Alexander Anastos was born...

Early yesterday morning, a large fire broke out on the Brooklyn waterfront. Firefighters were quickly dispatched and arrived to find a factory engulfed in flames. The burning building, located in the Sunset Park neighborhood on 53rd Street between First Avenue and Dead End, was identified as Universal Food Distributors, Inc....

Yesterday, March 10, 2026, former New York Jets fullback Matt Snell passed away in an assisted living facility in Long Island, NY, at the age of 84. The heartbreaking announcement was made by his son, Beau Snell. The Jets have also released a statement on social media, saying, “We’re saddened...

People use ChatGPT for everything—-writing resignation letters, cheating on homework, brainstorming new business proposals—quite literally everything. The possibilities are endless, and ChatGPT has become a reliable tool for helping people think in ways that they have never thought possible…but who knew that ChatGPT could be used as a source of...

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