Beth Fertig

A team of researchers analyzed temperature readings from five rooftop weather stations in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan over the course of a year.

A team of researchers analyzed temperature readings from five rooftop weather stations in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan over the course of a year.

WNYC set out to see if we could find the type of temperature differences at Bensonhurst and East Flatbush described in the report by the Earth Institute researchers.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher has been a champion of the legislation all along. 

Expanding the minds of teenagers, and their career options, is the goal of the Harlem Children Society.

A total of 19 schools were going to stop accepting new students this fall so the city could replace them with small new schools and charters.

Summer began just a couple of weeks ago, and already three young New Yorkers between the ages of 12 and 20 have drowned to death in area beaches and in the Harlem River.

The city has relaxed its hiring freeze on new teachers. 

Deputy Parks Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey says recent drowning incidents involving local teens should serve as a warning. 

Swimming classes start this week at New York City public pools. 

Hundreds of people waited in line to enter the Jackie Robinson Pool off West 145th Street. 

An appellate panel sided with the lower court's decision finding the city didn't give enough details on how closing the schools would affect their communities.

The city has lost its appeal of a court ruling that prevented it from closing 19 failing schools.

Bronx residents near Hunts Point hope they'll no longer be inundated by odors, following a legal settlement with the city.

Having the last day of class on a Monday did lead to lower attendance for the New York City public schools. 

The city schools and the teachers' union are already looking ahead to the next school year -- and arguing over when it should begin. 

The city has announced that 11 schools the state considers to be persistently low achieving will get intensive interventions this fall. 

City parents are complaining that it's odd timing to end the school year on Monday.

New York City’s public schools don’t get out until Monday. 

Thirty-four troubled New York City schools will find out Friday whether they'll get extra help next fall to improve, or if they'll eventually face more drastic changes.