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New York Family

Free Kid and Family Activities in NYC: 10 Free Things to Do This Week

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2025 in photos: The year ICE came to New York City

Posted on December 30, 2025

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Law

Mamdani nominates Steven Banks as next Law Department head, names City Hall chief counsel

Posted on December 30, 2025

Far Rockaway gang member Abel "Moreno" Mora was sentenced for a shooting in Brooklyn the same day he was involved in a shootout at Beach 13th Street and New Haven Avenue that sent children running for safety on Aug. 13, 2023.

QNS

Far Rockaway Trinitarios street gang member called ‘danger to society’ after sentencing for shooting, smuggling drugs into MDC: Feds

6. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Quilt, possibly Vermont, mid-19th century. Cotton.

Dan’s Papers

Ecology of Quilts: Natural History of American Textiles at the American Folk Art Museum

NYPD officers in Times Square ahead of New Year's Eve

New Year’s Eve: NYPD surging cops into Times Square, will implement additional security screenings as city welcomes 2026

Posted on December 30, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

As Rent Transparency Act begins, Brooklyn startup helps renters uncover hidden rent-stabilized apartments

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Tourist stabbed outside Bryant Park in unprovoked attack: cops

Posted on December 30, 2025

Police in Queens are investigating after finding a baby boy dead and his mother with slash wounds to her wrists inside a residence on Monday afternoon.

Queens

Queens mother charged with murder of infant son

Posted on December 30, 2025

Police in Queens are investigating after finding a baby boy dead and his mother with slash wounds to her wrists inside a residence on Monday afternoon.

Queens

Horror in Queens: Cops find baby boy dead, and mom with slashed wrists

Posted on December 29, 2025

Mom, Dad, and two children sitting in bed with runny nose and fever as record-breaking Flu hits New York

New York Family

Record-Breaking Flu in New York: What Parents Need to Know Now

Wide shot showing Manhattan Plaza performing arts residence and Film Center Cafe on Ninth Avenue.

Law

Late percussionist’s younger brother loses bid to inherit low-income apartment

Posted on December 29, 2025

Mayor Adams speaks about seizure of illegal guns

Mayor Adams touts 25,000 illegal guns seized from NYC streets as his tenure draws to a close

Posted on December 29, 2025

Amali is a calm oasis in the Upper East Side.

Upper East Side

Amali brings global flavors to the Upper East Side

Posted on December 29, 2025

Flowers at Elizabeth Street Garden.

EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Mayor Adams pushes for final agreement to save Elizabeth Street Garden in Manhattan

Posted on December 29, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Maimonides will merge with NYC Health+Hospitals next year, officials say

Three kings illustration in front of a NYC skyline

New York Family

Three Kings Day Events Around New York City 2026

A police officer at a Midtown shooting scene

Midtown Manhattan

Midtown shooting: Man accidentally shoots himself in chest, but lies to police about incident, cops say

Posted on December 29, 2025

police at scene where person was stabbed

Bronx

Cops question persons of interest in Bronx woman’s deadly stabbing

Posted on December 28, 2025

Bronx double shooting scene

Bronx

Bronx double shooting: Connecticut teen killed, another youth injured in gun violence at public housing complex

Posted on December 28, 2025

Brooklyn medical examiner

Bronx

Bronx police investigate death of 4-year-girl

Posted on December 27, 2025

FILE PHOTO: Pedro Hernandez appears in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York

Law

NYC prosecutors ask Supreme Court to restore conviction in Etan Patz child murder case

Posted on December 26, 2025

A perfectly built snowman next to its twn snowman in a Brooklyn park

New York Family

How to Build the Perfect Snowman in NYC

Brightly lit fireworks displaying 2026 for list of Where to Watch New Year’s Eve Fireworks in NYC With Kids

New York Family

Where to Watch New Year’s Eve Fireworks in NYC With Kids

NY: Association of Legislative Employees Rally

Brooklyn Paper

City Council staff union and allies urge members to honor contract during reorganization

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Law

Pro-cop judge admonished, parental rights | amNew York Law Bench Report for Dec. 26, 2025

Posted on December 26, 2025

Hien: From Vietnam is a small cafe that has gained a lot of attention recently.

Chinatown

Chinatown’s Hien: From Vietnam cafe brings Vietnamese flavors countering tariffs

Posted on December 25, 2025

Three children holding silver balloons for the New Year 2026

New York Family

28 Family-Friendly New Year’s Events in NYC for 2026

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Law

Op-Ed | Ending the weaponization of New York’s child abuse reporting system

Posted on December 24, 2025

Man plays a drum at a Kwanzaa holiday weekend event in New York

New York Family

Things to do this weekend with the kids in New York

Attorney General Letitia James is investigating an NYPD fatal shooting in Far Rockaway.

QNS

AG launches investigation into fatal police shooting in Far Rockaway

police at a crime scene in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Cops seek gunman who killed man in Brooklyn in Christmas Eve shooting

Posted on December 24, 2025

A young child leaning upside down in a circular object, part of the new Space Glide experience at the New York Hall of Science

New York Family

Meet Space Glide: A No-Ice, No-Blades Skating Alternative at the New York Hall of Science

Law

Op-Ed | New York City must lead on artificial intelligence

Posted on December 24, 2025

Suspect in baseball bat assault on Upper West Side

Upper West Side

Upper West Side attacker sought for viciously assaulting man with baseball bat on street

Posted on December 24, 2025

The Jungle by Wilfredo Lam

Re-engineering modernism: Wilfredo Lam’s powerful works at the Museum of Modern Art

Posted on December 24, 2025

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Law

‘Brink of collapse’: NYC legal services provider says city owes $20M in backpay

Posted on December 23, 2025

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Law

Mamdani names FDNY commissioner, interim sanitation and emergency management heads for new administration

Posted on December 23, 2025

NYPD patch on uniform

EXCLUSIVE: 30 NYPD officers targeted for dismissal over qualification snafu will be allowed to keep jobs, sources say

Posted on December 23, 2025

Gov't Mule returns to the Beacon Theater for their annual New Year's Eve concerts.

Dan’s Papers

Gov’t Mule’s Annual Beacon New Year’s Eve Show Will Make it 1971 All Over Again

Mom and children of man deported by ICE sit on bed during Christmas

Brooklyn

Silent nights: How NYC families separated by ICE will be spending Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2025

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn man arrested and charged following antisemitic attack during Hanukkah

Posted on December 23, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man indicted for sex trafficking and raping 15-year-old girl: DA

Suspect in Brooklyn assault sought for attacking boy, smashing head through windshield

Brooklyn

Brooklyn assault: Cops hunting for man suspected of smashing 10-year-old boy’s head into windshield during argument

Posted on December 23, 2025

Jean Shafiroff

New York in Residence: Jean Shafiroff, the art of giving, and a downtown trust carried to Miami

Posted on December 23, 2025

People ringing bells at Bell by Bell music event in East Village

Ringing in the season: ‘Bell by Bell’ in East Village lets everyone jingle all the way

Posted on December 23, 2025

Fun portrait of happy loving family. Pretty young mother reading a winter book to her daughters at home.

New York Family

15 Great Books for Kids to Curl Up With This Winter

man weeps in Queens after son was shot and killed in police shooting

Queens

Parents of Queens man killed in police-involved shooting allege that their son was unjustly slain

Posted on December 22, 2025

More from around NYC

A bartender at Throggs Neck's Made in Puerto Rico, pours a glass of homemade coquito, made with fresh ingredients and the Puerto Rican rum Don Q.

What makes great Coquito? It’s less about the recipe and more about the company

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Astoria esthetician breaks down LED mask hype

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What to know about Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral inauguration this Thursday

A view of the front steps of New York City Hall.

NYC to distribute $2 million in emergency funding to organizations serving transgender people