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New York Giants

Giants co-owner Steve Tisch named 440 times in Epstein files

Posted on January 31, 2026

Former Council Member Eric Ulrich was accused of accepting bribes and illegal gambling across five indictments in September 2023. Photo via NYC Council Flickr/John McCarten.

QNS

Judge drops one bribery case against developer tied to former Council Member Eric Ulrich

Bus driving on snowy street after winter storm

Still digging out: Mamdani says city has cleared mounds of snow from 100% of bus stops with shelters, days after winter storm

Posted on January 30, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking at microphone

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: $5M settlement for cheated deliveristas as mayor pledges zero tolerance for corporate exploitation

Posted on January 30, 2026

U.S. Rep. Gregory Meek calls for ICE to be defunding at a press conference at Queens Borough Hall Thursday afternoon. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud.

QNS

Reps. Meeks, Meng join BP Richards to demand ICE accountability following fatal Minnesota shootings

Don Lemon attends the premiere of the fourth season of the "The Morning Show" in New York City, U.S., September 9, 2025.

Gay City News

Federal agents arrest Don Lemon in connection with St. Paul church protest

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: Prime Minister of Grenada The Hon. Dickon Mitchell attends the 2024 Concordia Annual Summit at Sheraton New York Times Square on Sept. 23, 2024 in New York City.

Caribbean Life

Grenada weighs pact to accept non-national deportees

Nurses hold candles for Alex Pretti at vigil

Health

New Yorkers hold candlelight vigil at VA Hospital to honor Alex Pretti, Minneapolis nurse shot dead by ICE agents

Posted on January 30, 2026

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Brooklyn Paper

41 City Council members call on Schumer to oppose ICE funding as shutdown looms

Rally attendee speaks on bill to improve wages for security guards

Politics

City Council override brings pay and protections to 60,000 private sector security guards, relief to family of slain officer behind namesake bill

Posted on January 29, 2026

Scene of antisemitic crash at Chabad Lubavitch in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Driver accused of ramming car into Brooklyn’s Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters charged with hate crime

Posted on January 29, 2026

MTA chair Janno Lieber speaks about Second Avenue Subway extension

Second Avenue Subway extension to East Harlem will continue, but could hit snag if feds don’t restore funds soon: MTA

Posted on January 29, 2026

City Council Julie Menin press conference on overridding vetoes.

Politics

The Council strikes back: 17 Adams-era vetoes overridden in historic legislative sweep

Posted on January 29, 2026

Luigi Mangione pictured being escorted by detectives at Manhattan Federal Court in December 2024.

Law

Man arrested after allegedly trying to free Luigi Mangione from Brooklyn lockup

Posted on January 29, 2026

Scene of antisemitic crash at Chabad Lubavitch in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

New York officials react to possible antisemitic car attack at Brooklyn’s Chabad Lubavitch headquarters

Posted on January 29, 2026

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Brooklyn Paper

A new chapter in women’s health care: Maimonides celebrates grand opening of Women’s Neurology Center

Student shuffle: Upper West Side parents outraged as a plan to relocate public schools takes shape

Posted on January 29, 2026

Scene in Brooklyn where driver rammed vehicle into Chabad Lubavitch headquarters

Brooklyn

Driver rams vehicle into Brooklyn’s Chabad Lubavitch headquarters in possible hate crime

Posted on January 28, 2026

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Politics

ICE-linked Palantir investment becomes flashpoint in rarely-contested New York state comptroller’s race

Posted on January 28, 2026

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QNS

Three NYC Health + Hospitals locations awarded for outstanding care to patients with high-consequence infectious diseases

Andy Byford speaking about Gateway Tunnel and Penn Station at forum.

Penn Station redesign chief Andy Byford says he’s not fully ‘up to speed’ on looming Gateway Tunnel project breakdown

Posted on January 28, 2026

Brooklyn muggers suspected of robbing teen

Brooklyn

Brooklyn muggers lure teen to apartment building, then beat him in online jacket sale scam

Posted on January 28, 2026

A Corona man was arrested on the subway following an antisemitic assault of a rabbi in Forest Hills on Jan. 27.

QNS

Corona man criminally charged in antisemitic attack on rabbi in Forest Hills on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: DA

Assembly Member Claire Valdez speaks at a campagin event at Brooklyn's Macri Triangle. Photo by Shane O'Brien.

QNS

Claire Valdez puts union advocacy front and center in bid to succeed Velázquez in NY-7

Homeless man in subway train

Politics

Hochul allocates $43 million to psychiatric services as the debate over involuntary hospitalization rages on

Posted on January 28, 2026

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Health

NURSES STRIKE: Contract talks continue between caretakers and hospitals; progress made at NewYork-Presbyterian

Posted on January 28, 2026

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso at a campaign event earlier in January. Photo courtesy of Reynoso campaign.

QNS

Antonio Reynoso touts experience in race to succeed U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez

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Lower Manhattan subway stabbing: Suspect attacked on train after argument, cops say

Posted on January 28, 2026

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Brooklyn Paper

Malliotakis appeals court decision to toss existing NY-11 district map

Anti-ICE demonstrators hold signs while occupying Hilton hotel

No vacancy: 65 anti-ICE protesters arrested after lobby protest inside Lower Manhattan Hilton hotel, NYPD says

Posted on January 28, 2026

Law

Op-Ed | Calling everything fraud: How repealing the Scaffold Law became a strategy, not a reform

Posted on January 27, 2026

Cops are looking for the four suspects who allegedly stole around $30,000 of merchandise from the Sunglass Hut at the Queens Center Mall.

QNS

Four suspects steal $30K worth of merch from Sunglass Hut at Queens Center Mall: NYPD

East Village church members celebrate after parishioner arrested by ICE is freed

A test of faith: East Village church prays for justice as ICE bond hearing decides fate of detained parishioner

Posted on January 27, 2026

Chuck Schumer speaks about Gateway Tunnel project

Dire consequences loom for NYC area if Trump allows Gateway Tunnel rail project to stall without funding, Schumer warns

Posted on January 27, 2026

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Brooklyn Paper

All NYC Ferry service suspended as Arctic temperatures freeze East and Hudson rivers

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Deadly extreme cold claims 10 New Yorkers’ lives, mayor says while expanding ‘Code Blue’ response

Posted on January 27, 2026

Woman counting money, representing the 2026 New York child tax credit

New York Family

New York’s Child Tax Credit Just Got Bigger: What That Means for Your Family

people wearing red clothes and holding red signs during the nurses strike in NYC

Health

NURSES STRIKE: Talks to resume on Tuesday as historic walkout enters its third week

Posted on January 27, 2026

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American dream: How one woman came to America chasing music and is now building a space at the table for Asian artists

Posted on January 27, 2026

ICE agents detain five-year-old child in Minneapolis

What ICE detainments of children in Minneapolis means for the kids of New York

Posted on January 27, 2026

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Subway crime dipped 4% in 2025 compared to the previous year; December saw slight uptick: NYPD

Posted on January 26, 2026

WINTER STORM: NYC public schools’ remote snow day faces ‘minor hiccups’; parents prefer traditional snow day

Posted on January 26, 2026

A Virginia man was convicted at trial of murder in the second degree for strangling a 15-year-old girl to death in Far Rockaway in May 1992.

QNS

Virginia man convicted of 1992 cold case murder of Far Rockaway teenage girl: DA

Southeast Queens community leaders celebrate the improvements at the Laurelton LIRR station thanks to a $15 million upgrade project.

QNS

MTA announces substantial completion of $15M upgrade project at Laurelton LIRR station

Dog and owner involved in Union Square dog attack at subway station

Union Square dog attack: Owner sics canine onto straphanger in vicious subway assault

Posted on January 26, 2026

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Brooklyn Paper

A lucky strike: How Brooklyn Bowl became ‘rock and roll heaven’

A police officer at a crime scene in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn mother arrested after 1-month-old baby boy is found dead in her apartment

Posted on January 26, 2026

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Law

Op-Ed | The murder of Alex Pretti and the government’s response

Posted on January 26, 2026

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BronxWorks announces renovation plans and community priorities at annual Legislative Breakfast

The wreckage of the Empire State Building plane crash in 1945.

Middle Village man’s story of surviving Empire State Building plane crash: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

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Brooklyn Mirage demolition set to start next month as venue’s investors battle in bankruptcy court

Don Lemon attends the premiere of the fourth season of the "The Morning Show" in New York City, U.S., September 9, 2025.

Federal agents arrest Don Lemon in connection with St. Paul church protest