Thousands of New Yorkers around the state are sitting on waitlists for two state-funded mental health treatment and support programs, according to data obtained by the Legal Aid Society and reviewed by New York Focus. Some applicants wait years for voluntary long-term mental health support, even as the state has increased funding for such programs in recent years, the records show.

The New York state prison system is abusing “emergency” authority to gut solitary confinement reforms indefinitely, a new class action lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit, filed by the Legal Aid Society on Thursday, asks a state court to overturn the prison agency’s suspension of the reforms, details of which attorneys only recently uncovered.

President Donald Trump may have retreated from a full-blown trade war with most of the world, but his fight with China is still raging — and it could stymie New York City’s plans to decarbonize its public housing.

As of Monday afternoon, US tariffs on Chinese imports stood at 145 percent, with China charging 125 percent duties on US goods in response. That could throw a wrench in US climate efforts. China remains by far the world’s largest producer of green technologies and dominates the underlying supply chains. While the United States has already largely shut out some Chinese products, like solar panels, it still imports others, like grid-scale batteries. New York City is counting on one Chinese product in particular to help green its public housing: innovative window heat pump units made by the Guangdong-based company Midea.