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City Council, advocates celebrate $50 million mental health and safety investment, call on Mayor Adams to prioritize Rikers closure

Posted on August 4, 2025

Resorts World New York City received its last major land use approval from the state for its proposed $5.5 billion expansion into an integrated resort at Aqueduct.

QNS

Resorts World granted key land use approval from state for $5.5B expansion if granted commercial gaming license

(left to right) Zohran Mamdani, DC37 Executive Director Henry Garrido, and Senator Elizabeth Warren

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Elizabeth Warren campaigns with Mamdani in NYC, calling for universal childcare at DC37 union headquarters

Posted on August 4, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Mirage parent company, Avant Gardner, files for bankruptcy

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Brooklyn Paper

Bloody scene: Triple shooting in Brooklyn injures three people

A 45-year-old Elmhurst man was found bleeding heavily from multiple stab wounds in a cellar stairwell in the Case Street home.

QNS

Elmhurst man found stabbed to death in cellar of Case Street home: NYPD

PATH train at Manhattan station

Multiple people hospitalized, service suspended due to PATH train fire Monday morning

Posted on August 4, 2025

Sports

Brock Lesnar return at SummerSlam stuns WWE fans at MetLife Stadium

Posted on August 4, 2025

Midtown Manhattan

What is NYPD paid detail? Inside the off-duty program Officer Islam was working when killed in Midtown mass shooting

Posted on August 3, 2025

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NYC to lose 300,000 parking spots in City Council bid to boost street safety

Posted on August 3, 2025

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Brooklyn

Man fatally shot, another wounded at Brooklyn late-night party

Posted on August 3, 2025

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Thousands flood MetLife Stadium for first-ever two-night WWE SummerSlam

Posted on August 3, 2025

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Bronx

Bronx man accused of torturing girlfriend to death arrested after neighbor pursuit

Posted on August 3, 2025

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E-bike rider from Queens fatally struck in collision involving SUV

Posted on August 3, 2025

Multiple monitors and big digital screen showing surveillance video footage. Female dispatch or CCTV operator works on computer in monitoring center with security cameras, talks by walkie talkie.

News

Privacy group details extensive city-run surveillance in new report

Posted on August 2, 2025

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's offices in Long Island City, Queens.

Gay City News

New York City sees seasonal increase in mpox cases

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2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani leads with Jewish voters in new poll, but most worry his vision for NYC would make them less safe

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Cats rescued from shuttered Brooklyn nursery school as activists clash with NYCHA officials

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QNS

More than $2.5M worth of marijuana confiscated during raids in Maspeth, Long Island City: DA

Groups rallied against the rezoning plan for Midtown South.

News

Garment District small businesses, unions fight against Midtown South rezoning plan

Posted on August 1, 2025

Midtown Manhattan

Council member Tiffany Cabán among 50 protesters arrested in takeover of Schumer, Gillibrand’s Midtown offices

Posted on August 1, 2025

Governor Kathy Hochul announced the project design kickoff for the Interborough Express in Brooklyn on Friday.

Brooklyn

Interborough Express: Gov. Hochul kicks off project design for long-awaited Brooklyn-Queens IBX

Posted on August 1, 2025

a protester getting arrested in Midtown.

Five pro-Palestine protesters in custody after chaining themselves to UN’s Permanent Mission of Egypt building in Midtown

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Harlem

Police investigating death of man found stabbed in his legs in Harlem

Posted on August 1, 2025

A firefighter works to beat the heat as temps were in the mid 90's during an afternoon blaze in the lower East side on Monday, July, 28.

Lower East Side

Fire rips through Lower East Side building rooftop

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man indicted for loan fraud and election scheme: DA

Stephanie Savocchi, co-founder of Alto dispensary, works behind the counter at the family-run cannabis shop in Tribeca on Aug. 1. The business is among dozens statewide impacted by a state zoning miscalculation now under legislative review.

Cannabis

Family-run Tribeca dispensary among 89 NYC shops in limbo after cannabis law misstep; Hochul vows no closures amid scramble for legislative fix

Posted on August 1, 2025

NYC Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos with Mayor Adams announcing additional early childhood funding

Politics

EXCLUSIVE: Why did NYC Department of Education spend $745,000 at a single Brooklyn restaurant last fiscal year?

Posted on August 1, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams at the funeral of slain NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, who was killed in a Midtown mass shooting on Monday, July 28. Thursday, July31, 2025.

2025 Mayor’s Race

Mayor Adams praises controversial NYPD unit that Mamdani vowed to dismantle during funeral for slain Bronx cop

Posted on July 31, 2025

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NYPD officer slain in Midtown mass shooting given a hero’s tribute at Bronx funeral

Posted on July 31, 2025

a line of people walk through an open gate in a Queens subway station

Fare evasion: MTA ‘prototype’ gates at busy Queens subway station remain in place despite rampant fare-beating

Posted on July 31, 2025

QNS

FDNY, NYPD rescue drivers from flooding on Clearview Expressway in northeast Queens

Brooklyn Paper

Four Sparrow Marsh restoration bolsters Jamaica Bay environment

The body of a South Ozone Park man was pulled from Jamaica Bay in Broad Channel on July 27, and police are working to determine how he died.

QNS

Body of South Ozone Park man found floating in Jamaica Bay off Broad Channel: NYPD

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Brooklyn Paper

Beyond amenities: Brodsky’s Brooklyn Museum collaboration offers an artful take on apartment living

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Interborough Express: The new IBX light rail line from Queens to Brooklyn is now one step closer to a reality

Posted on July 31, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: A September surprise? Key voting date could be the day one of Mamdani’s moderate challengers drops out – or not

Posted on July 31, 2025

Residents of Middle Village are in shock after a 4 alarm fire on Monday, July 28, destroyed several local businesses.

QNS

‘It’s devastating’: Middle Village residents mourn loss of beloved businesses following four-alarm fire

K-pop group Big Ocean on stage in front of a crowd

Big Ocean is ready to make a splash in NYC as the first K-Pop hard-of-hearing act

Posted on July 31, 2025

Mourners console one another outside Central Synagogue after the funeral for Julia Hyman on Wednesday, July 30. The 26-year-old real estate associate was remembered for her warmth, loyalty, and love of life.

Midtown Manhattan

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Family and friends remember Julia Hyman as ‘bright light’ after tragic death

Posted on July 30, 2025

AR-15 rifle used in Midtown mass shooting

NYC Neighborhoods

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: New details emerge in investigation of why and how shooter got his weapon of death

Posted on July 30, 2025

Man in a suit speaks at a podium next to a woman in a blue dress in front of a red curtain and next to a table of panelists.

Politics

Upper East Side antisemitism town hall zeroes in on anti-Israel sentiment, hate crimes, and universities

Posted on July 30, 2025

Isaiah Gurley is charged with animal cruelty and arson for allegedly killing a pit bull and torching the body on a street in South Ozone Park.

QNS

Alleged dog arsonist criminally charged with animal cruelty for killing, burning pit bull in South Ozone Park: DA

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News

Publishing exec and New York Daily News alum Ira Ellenthal dies at 88

Posted on July 30, 2025

man with beard and suit speaking at NYC mayor debate Zohran Mamdani

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani returns from Uganda trip without incident, immediately rejoins the campaign trail

Posted on July 30, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

‘It’s gonna take a death’: Brooklyn residents fear neglected trees could lead to disaster

Officers looks out for safety in subway in Brooklyn

Brooklyn subway station fight ends in tragedy after straphanger struck and killed by train: cops

Posted on July 30, 2025

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Bronx

Funeral services set for Bronx cop slain in Midtown mass shooting

Posted on July 30, 2025

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