Where Does NYC’s Recycling Go and How Much Really Gets Reused, Anyway?

Published   Jan 30, 2025 05:01PM

After reading the first part of our recycling guide, you’re a sorting expert. You’ve put your pizza box in the paper recycling, almond-milk container in with the metal, plastic and glass, and separated the coffee cup from its lid to recycle both. But what happens next? Where does New York City’s stuff all go? And […]
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Tech Startup Gets on Fast Track to Install Sidewalk EV Charg


A Manhattan tech firm appears to be on the fast track for a lucrative contract to provide electric charging towers for the municipal vehicle fleet, after hiring the lobbying firm founded by one of Mayor Eric Adams’ closest advisors and r ... Read more

CUNY Board Unveils ‘Master Plan’ Projecting Enrollment B


The CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. The City University of New York Board of Trustees Committee on Education Policy this week approved a “Master Plan” for 2026 to 2034 that projects an 13% inc ... Read more

Adams ‘Hasn’t Been Feeling His Best,’ City Hall Says i


Mayor Eric Adams cleared his public schedule this week for multiple doctor appointments and tests, with his office stating that he “hasn’t been feeling his best” but will still do his job.  Fabien Levy, the mayor’s deputy mayor of ... Read more

Recycling in NYC Is Easier Than You Think: A Guide for the Confused

Published   Jan 28, 2025 10:00AM

New Yorkers send a literal mountain of stuff — over 600,000 tons of material — to be recycled through curbside recycling every year. But that’s just about 17.5% of our total waste stream every year, and about half of what we could be doing.  If New Yorkers recycled paper, glass, plastic and metal to their […]
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Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze Could Hit New York Hard


An order from President Donald Trump’s budget office to freeze grant funding to states has already sown confusion and spurred pushback in New York. The state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, and five other state attorneys general on Tues ... Read more

Budgeting to Avoid ‘Summer of Hell’: Your Guide to the M


Every five years, the roadmap for the future of North America’s largest public transit authority is laid out in what’s known as the MTA Capital Program. Originally a product of the early 1980s, and also referred to as the capital plan, it ... Read more

LISTEN: The Mayor Who Cried Wolf?


When Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy put out the news Sunday night that Mayor Eric Adams wasn’t feeling well and was clearing his public schedule, it came just a week after City Hall’s late-night news that he’d ca ... Read more