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The Rockettes dressed as toy soldiers outside a music hall

News

Century of sparkle: The Rockettes and the sweet art of becoming a kid again

Posted on December 11, 2025

Warehouse workers and drivers at the SBK Amazon facility in Maspeth went on strike last December.

QNS

Drivers at Amazon warehouse in Woodside unionize with Teamsters

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WATCH: Adorable Andean bears at Queens Zoo play a fuzzy game of seesaw

Posted on December 11, 2025

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Actor who appeared in ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ struck and killed by SUV driver in Midtown Manhattan: cops

Posted on December 11, 2025

Pete Alonso Mets: Baseball player in white uniform, blue hat, with glove on, looks toward dugout

Mets

Op-ed | After letting Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz go, have the New York Mets lost the will to win?

Posted on December 11, 2025

Masked ICE agents at Federal Plaza

Washington Heights

Pols seek answers from feds over ICE raid in Washington Heights that saw masked agents injure NYPD officers

Posted on December 11, 2025

NY: Lidl Grand Opening Park Slope

Brooklyn Paper

‘Super-Est Market in Town’: Lidl celebrates grand opening in Brooklyn

CLS – LI LU Law Library opening at Columbia Law School

Law

Columbia Law School unveils new library named for outstanding alum

Posted on December 11, 2025

Oil paintings by Italian artist Elisa Anfuso, which are part of her series "Carnis in Fabula," on display during Miami Art Week.

Arts & Entertainment

Miami Art Week 2025 brings a resilient market, and a pulse too strong to ignore

Posted on December 11, 2025

Two suspects sought for Bronx bus stabbing

Bronx

Bronx bus stabbing leaves teenage boy critically wounded, two suspects wanted: cops

Posted on December 11, 2025

The Landmarks Preservation Commission heard arguments for saving West Park Presbyterian Church.

Landmarks Preservation Commission hears pleas to save West Park Presbyterian Church

Posted on December 11, 2025

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

‘OY’ gang members charged in Manhattan murder conspiracy involving courthouse slashing and shootings: Bragg

Posted on December 10, 2025

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Feds unveil new Homeland Security Task Force to fight crime in New York despite record-low shootings and murders

Posted on December 10, 2025

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Law

New York’s scaffold Law tax draining ‘billions’ from MTA, other public projects: new report

Posted on December 10, 2025

Fifth Avenue in Midtown during Open Streets

Fifth Avenue, other Midtown blocks will be car-free for Holiday Open Streets this Sunday

Posted on December 10, 2025

Council Member Tiffany Cabán and transit advocates held an "emergency rally" in Athens Square Park protesting a recent ruling ordering the DOT to halt plans for a protected bike lane on 31st Street. Photo courtesy of Transportation Alternatives.

QNS

Cabán, transit advocates protest against ruling ordering DOT to halt 31st Street protected bike lanes in Astoria

cute but injured bird wrapped in a blanket

Operation feathered friend: What to do with an injured bird in NYC

Posted on December 10, 2025

A police officer at Union Square subway station after man stabbed

Straphanger stabbed twice aboard L train near Union Square: cops

Posted on December 10, 2025

food on a white plate

Balaboosta: The Village haven where heritage, heat and hospitality collide

Posted on December 10, 2025

City Council Speaker-designate Julie Menin

Politics

Julie Menin says she’s ready to become a City Council speaker that seeks common ground while standing firm in principles

Posted on December 10, 2025

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Law

Op-Ed | Poor Elbridge Gerry

Posted on December 10, 2025

entrance to Brooklyn school where Holocaust survivor was denied the opportunity to speak to students

Outrage after Brooklyn middle school principal rejects Holocaust survivor speaker over ‘messages around Israel and Palestine’

Posted on December 10, 2025

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Music for medicine: A night where high society chose substance over spectacle in Manhattan

Posted on December 10, 2025

Jan 5 NYC Scence

Op-Ed

Op-ed | Street vending vs quality of life, public safety and fairness to NYC’s small businesses

Posted on December 10, 2025

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani

Politics

Mamdani doubles down on ending homeless encampment sweeps, pledges housing-focused approach

Posted on December 9, 2025

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Which NYC intersections have had the most traffic deaths and injuries since 2022?

Posted on December 9, 2025

Manhattan church rails against ICE over arrest of man's husband over missed hearing

Manhattan man demands that ICE free his husband from custody after being detained in ‘trap’ over missed hearing three years ago

Posted on December 9, 2025

advocate for safe streets speaks at rally about most dangerous intersections in NYC

NYC’s most dangerous: Safe streets coalition spotlights hazardous intersections in push for universal ‘daylighting’ bill

Posted on December 9, 2025

arrested suspect in shooting of Jets player Kris Boyd

Midtown Manhattan

Man accused of shooting Jets’ Kris Boyd near Midtown nightclub charged with attempted murder

Posted on December 9, 2025

Maruc Pittman pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court in the 2024 murder of a drug dealer in a U-Haul van in Bayside.

QNS

Maryland man pleads guilty to fatal Bayside shooting during drug-related kidnapping in 2024: Feds

Council Member Joann Ariola speaks at a press conference celebrating a court ruling ordering the DOT to halt plans for a protected bike lane on 31st Street. Photo by Shane O'Brien.

QNS

Ariola, Astoria businesses celebrate court ruling ordering DOT to halt 31st Street bike lane

PAPD officers safely captured a horse after it broke free from Curly's Cowboy Center in South Jamaica.

QNS

Runaway horse makes surprise appearance at JFK Airport after breaking free from South Jamaica stable: PAPD

a row of houses on a tree-lined street in Brooklyn

Politics

Tax relief: How New York seniors will get up to $300 off their property tax bills

Posted on December 9, 2025

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QNS

Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan rank among the most competitive rental markets in the U.S. in 2025: report

Summer 2020 – Coney Island Boardwalk. Photo by Erica Price

Brooklyn Paper

Coney Island boardwalk to undergo full rebuild after city secures $1B

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New York

Trash talk: DSNY to formalize earlier Friday night garbage set-out time option in NYC

Posted on December 9, 2025

If granted a commercial gaming license in December, Resorts World will be able to expand its operations as soon as March 2026, tripling its workforce soon afterward.

QNS

Resorts World’s official application called for standardized tax rate across New York casinos

Brooklyn intersection where e-bike rider was struck and advocates want protected bike lane

Safe streets advocates renew call for Brooklyn protected bike lane after driver hits, critically injures e-bike rider

Posted on December 8, 2025

NY: Staten Island – Bay Ridge Ferry Connection

Brooklyn Paper

‘A game-changer’: Staten Island-Bay Ridge ferry sets sail for first time in six decades

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NYC Council members ramp up immigrant protections as ICE raids continue throughout the city

Posted on December 8, 2025

Congressman Dan Goldman, Adriano Espaillat, and Nydia Velázquez revealed Monday that they are pushing new legislation that would stop ICE agents from stalking the halls of immigration and arresting immigrants as they attend their legally mandated court hearings.

NYC Congress members push bill to stop ICE from arresting immigrants in court, saying operations are ‘not American’

Posted on December 8, 2025

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The big subway switch: Straphangers offer mixed verdict on first day of F and M train swap

Posted on December 8, 2025

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani with his wife Rama Duwaji voting on election day

Politics

Mamdani to move into Gracie Mansion, giving up his rent-stabilized apartment in Queens

Posted on December 8, 2025

Cyclists along 31st Street in Astoria. The DOT has proposed installing protected bike lanes on each side of the corridor.

QNS

Judge orders DOT to halt plan for protected bike lane on 31st Street in Astoria

Shopping for groceries in Manhattan on March 4, 2025.

Law

City settles lawsuit on late SNAP and cash assistance benefits impacting thousands of low-income New Yorkers

Posted on December 8, 2025

The United Nations Headquarters is pictured as it will be temporarily closed for tours due to the spread of coronavirus in the Manhattan borough of New York City

Law

Expert Analysis | Evolving legal frameworks to effectively prosecute conflict-related sexual violence (Part 1)

Posted on December 8, 2025

Homes in Maspeth Queens that could change under City of Yes

Nonprofit, Airbnb helps NYC gig workers get on the path to homeownership

Posted on December 8, 2025

Faith

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, hundreds of volunteers, drop by NYC Old Navy to shop for strangers

Posted on December 8, 2025

More from around NYC

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Six nurses and a medical unit in Bronx hospitals among NYC Health + Hospitals Nursing Excellence Award winners

The NYPD released new surveillance images of a suspect who allegedly groped a 21-year-old woman who fell asleep on an E train in Forest Hills in November.

Cops release new images of suspect who allegedly groped young woman on E train in Forest Hills: NYPD

NY: Lidl Grand Opening Park Slope

‘Super-Est Market in Town’: Lidl celebrates grand opening in Park Slope

US President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025.

Trump-appointed judges reverse preliminary injunction against military trans ban