Hundreds of New York City schools have enough space to shrink classes to comply with state law — provided that Mayor Eric Adams hires several thousand new instructors, the city teachers union said on Tuesday. A new analysis from the United Federation of Teachers found that 856 high-poverty schools have the capacity to lower class size by hiring 3,000 teachers, at a cost of $180 million. “These schools have the room,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew said on the steps of the city's education department's headquarters on Tuesday. “We don’t need...

Early Addition is a daily newsletter to guide you through New York City news, plus other tidbits from around the internet. Sign up here to get the full version in your inbox every weekday morning. Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where IDNYC cards are getting easier to obtain. Here's what else is happening: • Gov. Kathy Hochul has apologized for saying "we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word 'computer' is" at a conference in California. • Harvey Weinstein...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and top state lawmakers struck a housing deal Friday, clearing a major hurdle for state budget negotiations that have dragged on nearly two weeks past deadline, sources said. The preliminary agreement would allow tenants in many market-rate units in New York City to challenge lease hikes of more than 10% in housing court, according to the sources. It also aims to boost production of badly needed new and affordable housing in the city, including by lifting a decades-old state law that caps the density of buildings in...

Critics are furious about Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s new plan to crack down on New York’s allegedly fraud-ridden $8 billion Medicaid homecare program. The governor and Heastie (D-Bronx) are said to be in agreement on overhauling the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program — which allows New Yorkers to get paid to take care of loved ones — as part of the ongoing state budget talks. The program currently operates using hundreds of businesses and non-profits that essentially work as payroll agents between Medicaid and CDPAP...

The New York governor's plan to send hundreds of National Guard members to patrol New York City's subway system has drawn sharp criticism.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that she would deploy 750 members of the National Guard and 250 state troopers, along with officers from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to assist city police with bag searches.

It follows a series of high-profile crimes on city trains in recent years, including an attack last week on a train conductor, who was slashed in the neck by an unknown assailant.