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Law

Op-Ed | Government price setting is a prescription for reduced access and fewer cures for patients

Posted on February 12, 2026

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Bronx

Bronx shooting leaves beloved teenage athlete dead, two youths wounded – and residents demanding justice

Posted on February 12, 2026

Law

NYC alleges ‘bait and switch business practices’ by Extra Space Storage in new lawsuit

Posted on February 11, 2026

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Mamdani says his admin is ‘digging into’ restoring weekend G train service to Forest Hills

Posted on February 11, 2026

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QNS

‘I don’t feel safe in this building’: Fairview co-op residents left in the cold for 16 days amid heat outage

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Gov. Kathy Hochul visit Christopher Park on Feb. 11.

Gay City News

‘Let’s just do it’: Governor Hochul visits Stonewall National Monument, calls on Trump to restore Rainbow Flag

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Queens

‘He ran like a coward’: NYPD finds Romanian national in Germany accused of killing senior in Queens hit-and-run more than 3 years ago

Posted on February 11, 2026

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QNS

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center institutes program to prevent overdose deaths with help from DOHMH

Mayor Zohran Mamdani testifies at the 2026 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing in Albany on Wednesday, February 11,

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor tells Albany budget gap shrunk by $5 billion, pushes wealth tax to further close it

Posted on February 11, 2026

The bare flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 10.

Gay City News

Trump officials blast electeds’ plan to re-raise Rainbow Flag: ‘Trying to distract from their recent failures’

Federal worker with American flag at Stonewall site days after Pride flag removed

Politics

EXCLUSIVE | Amid outrage over Pride flag removal at Stonewall Monument, federal worker threatens reporter for photographing American flag-raising effort

Posted on February 11, 2026

Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker, a co-founder of New York Transgender Advocacy Group, speaks at a rally at Christopher Park on Feb. 10.

Gay City News

Advocates rally at Stonewall as electeds vow to raise Rainbow Flag once again

Bronx

Bronx cop charged in brazen pandemic funding fraud scheme

Posted on February 11, 2026

The NYPD is looking for a suspect who stabbed a man in Union Square.

Suspect who stabbed man inside Union Square subway cuffed: cops

Posted on February 11, 2026

Brooklyn suspect wanted for slashing man on subway

Brooklyn

Robber in red: Cops seek bundled-up bandit who slashed man in Brooklyn subway for his wallet

Posted on February 11, 2026

City Council Speaker Julie Menin leads Tuesdays hearing on Code Blue operations, joined by Council Member Oswald Feliz, Chair of the Committee on Public Safety, and Council Member Crystal Hudson, Chair of the Committee on General Welfare.

Politics

‘These deaths are not inevitable’: City Council questions Mamdani admin’s cold-weather response after 18 people die

Posted on February 10, 2026

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Law

Judge to be censured for trying to get friends favorable outcomes, anti-DA bias

Posted on February 10, 2026

Mayor Mamdani arrives at Governor Hochul's press conference focused on her "Let Them Build" agenda

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor encourages tenants to testify at ‘Rental Ripoff Hearings’ as landlords fume

Posted on February 10, 2026

Gov. Kathy Hochul says President Trump is throwing a "temper tantrum" by refusing to release Gateway Tunnel project funds. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.

‘Temper tantrum’ Trump: Hochul says president being petulant for refusing to unfreeze Gateway Tunnel funding

Posted on February 10, 2026

State Sen. Michael Gianaris has decided against running for re-election this year, ending his run of a quarter of a century representing western Queens in Albany.

QNS

State Sen. Michael Gianaris announces he will not seek re-election in 2026

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Business

COLD TRUTH: New Yorkers feeling burned by higher gas delivery fees in a brutal winter

Posted on February 10, 2026

The bare flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument is seen on Feb. 10 after the Trump administration removed a Rainbow Flag.

Gay City News

City Council Speaker, LGBTQIA+ Caucus co-chairs urge Trump administration to restore Rainbow Flag at Stonewall

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Brooklyn Paper

SUNY Downstate’s Dr. Riccardo Bianchi carries Olympic torch through his hometown

NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch speaking about split patrol boroughs in the Bronx

State of the NYPD: Tisch says Bronx will be split into two patrol boroughs, bringing in more cops

Posted on February 10, 2026

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QNS

Infant girl found dead on Wednesday, two days after fatal 4-alarm fire killed her mother on Dongan Avenue in Elmhurst: FDNY

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Exhibition featuring amazing MetroCard-inspired artwork coming to Grand Central Transit Museum next month

Posted on February 10, 2026

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Law

SoHo loft residents hope to take fight against Arts Fund apartment conversion fee to SCOTUS

Posted on February 10, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and members of government announce crackdown on junk fees

Law

Expert Analysis | Employer risk alert: New laws under the Mamdani administration, enhanced enforcement

Posted on February 10, 2026

ICE agent on patrol at Federal Plaza where immigrants are being detained

Lower Manhattan

Multiple floors of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan now being used to detain immigrants arrested by ICE, feds admit

Posted on February 10, 2026

Law

Alexander brothers bragged about raping 17-year-old: Testimony

Posted on February 9, 2026

Councilmembers Chi Ossé of Brooklyn (left) and Justin Sanchez of the Bronx (right) are the new co-chairs of the City Council's LGBTQIA+ Caucus.

Gay City News

Chi Ossé and Justin Sanchez named co-chairs of the City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus

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Brooklyn Paper

Bad Bunny brings Brooklyn social club Toñitas to the Super Bowl

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NYPD Police Academy in Queens to be renamed for late Detective Steven McDonald, honoring an inspirational cop of courage and faith

Posted on February 9, 2026

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QNS

DA’s office secures court order to return two homes to rightful owners who were victims of deed theft

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor opens $141M Shirley Chisholm center, cold snap claims another life

Posted on February 9, 2026

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Faith

Cardinal Timothy Dolan moving from NYC archbishop to NYPD co-chaplain, Commissioner Tisch says

Posted on February 9, 2026

Pinky Swear held their own Olympics on the Lower East Side.

Lower East Side

Lower East Side’s Pinky Swear launches new Olympic tradition with themed events

Posted on February 9, 2026

Officers looks out for safety in subway in Brooklyn

2 men found dead in separate NYC subway trains as extreme cold continues

Posted on February 9, 2026

Don Lemon speaks onstage during the Human Rights Campaign 2026 Greater New York Dinner at Marriott Marquis Times Square on February 07, 2026 in New York City.

Gay City News

Don Lemon makes surprise appearance as Human Rights Campaign honors advocates and allies in NYC

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Brooklyn

Man wanted for deadly mass shooting in Brooklyn last year, police say

Posted on February 8, 2026

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Bronx

Man killed after being left for dead in Bronx hit-and-run: cops

Posted on February 8, 2026

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Law

Judge rules feds must temporarily resume funding for Gateway tunnel rail project

Posted on February 6, 2026

Archbishop Ronald Hicks sitting on altar with crozier

Faith

Ronald Hicks becomes New York Archbishop, pledges to take 2.8 million Catholics in a direction of change through service

Posted on February 6, 2026

Jan. 14 marked the first time an NYPD cop was placed on trial in a decade. Sergeant Erik Duran appeared in the Bronx Hall of Justice, located at 265 East 161 Street, wearing a blue suit and accompanied by several of his colleagues. In the coming days a judge, not a jury, will decide his fate based on the evidence presented.

Law

NYPD sergeant who fatally threw cooler at a suspect convicted of manslaughter in Bronx

Posted on February 6, 2026

Left to right: Hon. Norman St. George, Justice Kim Adair Wilson, Hon. Patsy Goldbourne, and attorney Joey Jackson at the Bronx Supreme Court's Black History month celebration.

Bronx Times

Judges, attorneys gather at Bronx Supreme Court to honor Black History Month

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Dems backtrack after Hochul endorsement hiccup

G train stopped at station

‘G’rand slam? G train should resume weekend service to Forest Hills, transit advocates and the Mets tell MTA, Hochul and Mamdani

Posted on February 6, 2026

Mayor Mamdani signed an executive order on Friday "to reaffirm the city’s commitment to being a sanctuary for all New Yorkers."

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor rails against ‘rotten’ ICE at at interfaith breakfast, signs order to bolster immigrant protections

Posted on February 6, 2026

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Tenants at 1235 Woodycrest Ave., still displaced, living in poor conditions after August fire

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Median rent rose over 10% year-over-year in January 2026 across northwest Queens, listing inventory suffers steep drop: report

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Kaya Bliss marks one year in Bay Ridge with three-day celebration

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Gov. Kathy Hochul visit Christopher Park on Feb. 11.

‘Let’s just do it’: Governor Hochul visits Stonewall National Monument, calls on Trump to restore Rainbow Flag