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Queens

Gunman who fatally shot Queens laundromat worker remains on the lam

Posted on February 15, 2026

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Music

Local bands to take the stage in Queens for ‘Punk Melts ICE’ show

Posted on February 14, 2026

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Law

Op-Ed | President Trump’s transportation policy idiocy

Posted on February 13, 2026

Police bodycam footage of man wounded in Queens police shooting

Queens

Queens man shot by NYPD during mental health crisis indicted on assault charge

Posted on February 13, 2026

The Rainbow Flag and American Flag at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 13.

Gay City News

Rainbow Flag continues to fly at Stonewall National Monument after defiant re-raising ceremony

Start of the Gateway Tunnel project

Gateway Tunnel: Trump admin begins disbursing federal funds to rail project

Posted on February 13, 2026

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Brooklyn

State moves to develop housing, health clinic at long-vacant Brooklyn site

Posted on February 13, 2026

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Brooklyn

Woman found dead in Brooklyn NYCHA building likely crushed in accidental garbage chute fall, police say

Posted on February 13, 2026

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Bronx

Gunman behind fatal Bronx subway platform shooting fled to his apartment covered in blood and begged for girlfriend to order him a cab: cops

Posted on February 13, 2026

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Law

Expert Analysis | Ultra-processed food regulations: 5 things food companies should know

Posted on February 13, 2026

Mayor Mamdani announced the revived projects alongside DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn, MTA CEO Janno Lieber

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor revives halted bus, bike lane projects across Bronx, Brooklyn

Posted on February 13, 2026

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Law

City Council confirms Mamdani’s nominee to head Law Department

Posted on February 13, 2026

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Standing on the shoulders of legends’: Harlem Globetrotters bring 100 year tour to Barclays Center

The Rainbow Flag stands tall at the Stonewall National Monument.

Gay City News

Trump administration derides Stonewall National Monument flag-raising ceremony as ‘political stunt’

US Rep. Dan Goldman inspecting Federal Plaza and ICE holding areas

News

Goldman finds more jails for ICE detainees on multiple levels of 26 Federal Plaza, says DHS is defying the law

Posted on February 12, 2026

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Fare evasion: MTA boss insists subway riders aren’t agency’s ‘guinea pigs’ in modern fare gate pilot

Posted on February 12, 2026

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn daycare teacher charged for allegedly sexually abusing young students

LGBTQIA+ Caucus Co-Chair Chi Ossé delivers remarks during a rally at the Stonewall National Monument flagpole on Feb. 12.

Gay City News

City and state lawmakers lead ‘Hands Off Our Flag’ rally at Stonewall National Monument

Protests at Columbia University and other campuses

Columbia University updates its job fair policy following outrage over U.S. Border Patrol listing

Posted on February 12, 2026

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

National Grid

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

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Rise of the Myrtle Avenue Line, and the fall of transit service in 1918: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

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Malliotakis asks U.S. Supreme Court to stop redistricting of NY-11

The Rainbow Flag and American Flag at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 13.

Rainbow Flag continues to fly at Stonewall National Monument after defiant re-raising ceremony