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Queens

Queens man brutally beat toddler son in homeless shelter, then dropped him off at mother’s apartment: sources

Posted on February 4, 2026

Police bodycam footage of man wounded in Queens police shooting

Queens

Queens police shooting: NYPD releases bodycam footage of cop opening fire on man in mental health crisis

Posted on February 4, 2026

Suspect in Manhattan rape case escorted by detectives in handcuffs

Lower Manhattan

Manhattan rape case: Homeless man charged in sex assault of teen girl in Stuyvesant Town had 32 prior arrests on file

Posted on February 4, 2026

Erik Bottcher will represent District 47 in the State Senate.

Gay City News

Erik Bottcher wins special election to fill Brad Hoylman-Sigal’s State Senate seat

Bronstein tenants Sonu Kumari and Yvette Janis-Allen speak at a rally outside 42-09 47th Ave. to demand repairs in the building. Photo by Shane O'Brien.

QNS

Tenants rally at Sunnyside building to demand repairs from Bronstein real estate firm

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Fare evasion: MTA boss Lieber rules out all-door bus boarding until ‘European model’ of enforcement is activated

Posted on February 3, 2026

Suspect in Manhattan rape case

Manhattan rape case: Cops nab suspect in Stuyvesant Town sex assault of 14-year-old girl

Posted on February 3, 2026

NY: National Female Physicians Day

Brooklyn Paper

Breaking barriers in the OR: A day in the life of the women surgeons leading Maimonides

Law

Alexander brothers’ judge orders US to withhold Epstein-linked material during sex trafficking trial

Posted on February 3, 2026

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

Health

NURSES STRIKE: Hospital management returns ‘weak’ counterproposals; walkout continues

Posted on February 3, 2026

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Law

Rowdy travels with attorneys, court staff land NY Supreme Court justice lifelong ban from bench

Posted on February 3, 2026

Diana Moreno casts her vote in the D36 special election at PS 166Q. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud.

QNS

Queens voters head to the polls for Assembly District 36 special election to fill Mamdani’s old seat

look at rail tunnel to be rebuilt in Gateway Tunnel plan

Law

Gateway tunnel project commission sues Trump admin to release federal funds for new rail tunnel

Posted on February 3, 2026

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Academic showdown: NYU professors launch strike authorization vote

Posted on February 3, 2026

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New York Giants

Giants hire Matt Nagy as offensive coordinator

Posted on February 3, 2026

ICE agents in federal plaza in New York

Attorney General Letitia James to staff her own ICE observers group to monitor federal immigration crackdown in New York

Posted on February 3, 2026

Council Member Julie Won speaks at a press conference celebrating the passage of the OneLIC Neighborhood Plan on the steps of City Hall Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Shane O'Brien.

QNS

Queens Council Member Julie Won announces run for New York’s 7th Congressional District

MTA chief of rolling stock Jessie Lazarus

MTA boss Janno Lieber taps Jessie Lazarus to oversee MTA’s $12B purchase of new trains and buses

Posted on February 2, 2026

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Harlem

Legionnaires’ disease confirmed in one of city’s largest apartment buildings in Harlem

Posted on February 2, 2026

Virginia Maloney sworn in to City Council

Like mother, like daughter: Virginia Maloney celebrates inauguration to same City Council seat her mom Carolyn Maloney once held

Posted on February 2, 2026

Corona resident Blanca Hernandez Morales was sentenced to 35 years in prison for her role in a family-run sex trafficking operation. Morales was the last of four relatives who all lived in Corona and were sentenced to decades in prison for sex trafficking.

QNS

Corona woman sentenced to decades in prison for role in family-run sex trafficking, police bribery scheme: Feds

Map of expanded subway lines under proposal

An even bigger NYC subway system? Why transit experts say Mayor Mamdani should focus on that rather than fare-free buses

Posted on February 2, 2026

Stonewall president Gabriel Lewenstein (left) with Mateo Guerrero and Kenny Agosto.

Gay City News

LGBTQ leaders, candidates join Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC’s 40th anniversary party

Law

Brooklyn man sentenced for taking part in Iran-funded murder-for-hire plot

Posted on February 2, 2026

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Law

Op-Ed | Evolving legal frameworks to effectively prosecute conflict-related sexual violence (Part 2)

Posted on February 2, 2026

Suspect sought for slashing man in Bronx

Bronx

Bronx slashing suspect at large for attacking man following street argument

Posted on February 2, 2026

Queens medical examiner team loading human remains into van

Brooklyn

Human remains found in basement of Brooklyn NYCHA building

Posted on February 1, 2026

NYPD officers with a baby

Bronx

Hero cop saves the lives of two choking babies in less than a month

Posted on February 1, 2026

worker in a dining establishment in the Lower East Side

How politicians are preparing Lower East Siders for the inevitability of ICE

Posted on February 1, 2026

Police at subway

Man found dead aboard Manhattan subway train: cops

Posted on February 1, 2026

Steve Tisch Giants Epstein files

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

More from around NYC

Gotham Book Prize 2026 finalists, including Born in Flames, a book about the South Bronx fires.

Book on 1970s South Bronx fires named finalist for Gotham Book Prize

soul to soul

Soul to Soul: A celebration of African American and Yiddish folk music traditions in Bayside

First Saturdays

From salsa to sea creatures, what to do this month at the Brooklyn Museum

Erik Bottcher will represent District 47 in the State Senate.

Erik Bottcher wins special election to fill Brad Hoylman-Sigal’s State Senate seat