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Sports

NYCFC coach tempers expectations as the supporters shield race heats up

Posted on September 18, 2025

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Politics

Queens DA charges Texas man with hate crimes for making terroristic threats against Zohran Mamdani

Posted on September 18, 2025

Bronx street during the day

Teen sitting on a bench in the Bronx raped in early morning attack

Posted on September 18, 2025

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Staten Island elected officials fume over another DOT street plan that eliminates driving lanes, adds bike lanes

Posted on September 18, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Five-alarm fire devastates Red Hook warehouse housing artist studios, small businesses

Suspect seated while handcuffed for Lower East Side naked rampage in which he attacked cops

Lower East Side

Lower East Side rampage: Man attacked cops and tried to steal guns in unhinged attack while naked, prosecutors said

Posted on September 18, 2025

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News

Video | First-time home buyers Workshop

Posted on September 18, 2025

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn brute breaks senior’s ribs after run-in at a supermarket: cops

Posted on September 18, 2025

Carriage horse and buggy in central park

Mayor Adams calls for end to NYC horse-drawn carriage industry; City Council says for political gain

Posted on September 17, 2025

Central Perk Coffee Co Rendering

The one where NYC gets a real-life ‘Central Perk’ coffeehouse inspired by ‘Friends’

Posted on September 17, 2025

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie speaks to reporters after endorsing Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani at a Bronx news conference. Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Speaker Heastie backs Mamdani’s Albany agenda, says he’s ‘not concerned’ about Hochul pushback

Posted on September 17, 2025

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Fare evasion: How are unarmed gate guards stopping cheaters in the NYC subways – and are they effective?

Posted on September 17, 2025

NYPD at scene in Brooklyn where man was shot dead

2025 Mayor’s Race

amNY Your Vote: Where do the mayoral candidates stand when it comes to public safety and improving the NYPD?

Posted on September 17, 2025

An Astoria man is facing up to 15 years in prison after he was criminally charged with vehicular assault for striking a young girl and an elderly man on a Corona sidewalk while allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.

QNS

Astoria man charged with vehicular assault for striking pedestrians on Corona sidewalk: DA

man holding a box near free delivery lockers on a sidewalk

Hold everything! DOT expands free delivery lockers on NYC sidewalks

Posted on September 17, 2025

Rendering shows the proposed Times Square casino complex, which developers say would feature a 150,000-square-foot gaming floor, luxury hotel rooms, celebrity-chef restaurants and a renovated Broadway theater.

Business

CASINO BIDS CRAP OUT: Committees vote down Times Square and Hell’s Kitchen plans

Posted on September 17, 2025

Environmental advocates, Bronx residents, and tenants from the Bronx River Houses NYCHA development called on state officials to stop the Cross Bronx Expansion. The New York State Department of Transportation designed projects to repair five bridges along the expressway that involve constructing additional "traffic diversion structures," which Bronx residents oppose as a highway expansion.

Bronx Times

Inside the fight for cleaner air, dignity and the truth about the Cross Bronx Expressway

Brooklyn

95-year-old woman charged with murdering Holocaust survivor inside Brooklyn nursing home

Posted on September 17, 2025

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Cuomo appears to attribute Hochul, expected Heastie, support for Mamdani to ‘socialist faction’

Posted on September 16, 2025

woman injects herself with needle at Greenwich Village park

Greenwich Village

Pains of addiction: How this West Village plaza has become a hotbed of suffering for drug users and locals alike

Posted on September 16, 2025

A man was struck and killed by two vehicles while trying to cross the Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park on Friday, Sept. 12.

QNS

Man struck and killed by two vehicles while trying to cross Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park: NYPD

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Brooklyn Paper

NYPD seeks four suspects in connection to two Brooklyn dating app robberies

Cops are looking for the suspect who allegedly stabbed a man he was arguing with in front of a South Richmond Hill cocktail lounge on Sept. 14.

QNS

Suspect wanted in stabbing at South Richmond Hill cocktail lounge: NYPD

Traffic on Third Avenue in Manhattan.

Gridlock alert: UN General Assembly starts next week. Here’s how to commute in the midst of heavy traffic

Posted on September 16, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

‘It’s a need’: Brooklyn parents face gaps in after-school funding as school year begins

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Brooklyn

Two in custody after man dies of injuries following Brooklyn assault: NYPD

Posted on September 16, 2025

Police set up crime scene tape at scene of Harlem shooting

Harlem

Harlem shooting leaves two people, including teen wounded by police bullet

Posted on September 15, 2025

More than $50,000 worth of stolen merchandise was recovered at the Elegant Fashion boutique on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona.

QNS

Three arrested at Roosevelt Avenue boutique in Corona for possessing stolen merchandise: DA

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Brooklyn Paper

Beloved homeware store Fishs Eddy to expand to Dumbo this fall

Advocates stress that with 60 votes needed in the Senate, Schumer and Democrats have the leverage to block further cuts, and they are calling on him to protect essential federal programs supporting food, water, and climate

Politics

Protestors rally outside Sen. Schumer’s Midtown office urging he ‘hold the line or resign’ against GOP spending cuts

Posted on September 15, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn designers take center stage at NYFW with ‘The People’s Runway’

A Nassau County man is accused of killing a 16-year-old Manhattan girl after he rammed his SUV into the victim, her mother and stepfather on Roosevelt Avenue, allegedly while intoxicated.

QNS

Long Islander facing 25 years to life in prison for allegedly killing 16-year-old girl with his SUV in Elmhurst: DA

Police and firefighters at scene of Queens crash

Queens

Alleged drunk driver mows down teen, senior in wild Queens crash: NYPD

Posted on September 15, 2025

Location of Brooklyn nursing home where patient fatally beat another

Brooklyn

95-year-old woman at Brooklyn nursing home allegedly beat patient to death with part of wheelchair in violent argument: sources

Posted on September 15, 2025

Police investigate a shooting

Bronx

Bronx shooting: Masked trio guns down two people outside apartment building

Posted on September 15, 2025

A woman poses at the Feast of San Gennaro

Come for the music, stay for the cannolis: The Feast of San Gennaro celebrates 99 years of Italian culture

Posted on September 14, 2025

A homeless man sits in Chelsea

Politics

NYC homeless advocates livid over Fox News host Brian Kilmeade’s remarks about killing the unhoused, despite his apology

Posted on September 14, 2025

a smashed up car during the day in Brooklyn

Brooklyn police pursuit ends with pedestrian struck, alleged teenage car thief caught

Posted on September 14, 2025

police officer with yellow tape at crime scene where person was stabbed with blood-covered cloth on ground

Lower East Side

Man stabbed in neck in Lower East Side: cops

Posted on September 14, 2025

Suspect in Brooklyn robbery

Brooklyn

Brooklyn cops seek brutal robber who beat senior woman at tire shop, pointed gun at her

Posted on September 14, 2025

police investigate deadly queens hit and run

Queens

Long Island man charged with fatally striking teen girl in Queens dead in alcohol-fueled road rampage

Posted on September 14, 2025

Medical examiner loads body into van in Bronx

Queens

Senior murdered by son inside Queens home: cops

Posted on September 14, 2025

commuters on the M train talking about politics and issues important to them

2025 Mayor’s Race

amNY ‘The Third Rail’: Talking with M train riders about the NYC Mayor’s Race and more

Posted on September 14, 2025

group of people on board a Staten Island train that has new subway cars

Brand-new subway cars now make up Staten Island’s only train line

Posted on September 14, 2025

New design for student OMNY cards for the 2025 - 2026 school year.

Ask the MTA | Possible LIRR strike, student OMNY card, is congestion pricing working?

Posted on September 13, 2025

Supporters and critics of the Times Square casino project vie for visibility with competing signs at the last public hearing on Thursday.

Midtown Manhattan

Jay-Z–backed Times Square casino faces Broadway’s refusal to share the spotlight at final public hearing

Posted on September 12, 2025

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QNS

Two alleged gun traffickers held without bail for transporting weapons, drugs from Georgia to southeast Queens: DA

Deliveristas rallied at City Hall for protections from being fired without cause from delivery apps.

Politics

Deliveristas rally at City Hall for protections ahead of vote to block delivery apps from firing without cause

Posted on September 12, 2025

More from around NYC

P176x

Investigation finds paraprofessionals falsified timesheets while helping to transport three Bronx special needs students

hate crime

Hate Crimes Task Force investigating anti-gay attack inside Glendale deli: NYPD

NY: Brooklyn Navy Yard Protest

NYPD arrests eight activists at Brooklyn Navy Yard protest over tenant ties

"She Sells Sea Shells," an exhibition at Alice Austen House Museum in Staten, will run until February 21 of next year.

She Sells Sea Shells exhibit debuts at Staten Island’s Alice Austen House