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Brooklyn pols call for backup traffic plan when Verrazzano Bridge closes due to high winds or heavy rain.

Brooklyn Paper

Bay Ridge pols call for help with traffic build-up caused by Verrazzano Bridge closures

Migrants at respite center in Manhattan

Politics

Curfew to be imposed at four NYC migrant ‘respite centers,’ City Hall confirms

Posted on January 15, 2024

NYPD public safety team sergeant in the subway system

Brooklyn

EXCLUSIVE | Ride along with the NYPD’s plain-clothed subway safety team: ‘You may not know who we are, but we are there’

Posted on January 15, 2024

Bloody scene of Brooklyn subway shooting

Brooklyn

Brooklyn subway shooting: Straphanger slain on 3 train, killer still at large

Posted on January 15, 2024

Police say Elnaggar broke the windows of a storefront at 593 9th Ave. in July 2022. anti-Semitic

News

Police arrest 61-year-old for anti-Semitic incident from 2022

Posted on January 15, 2024

Movies

Box office | ‘Mean Girls’ musical adaptation fetches big opening weekend win

Posted on January 15, 2024

Migrants help at Brooklyn community garden on MLK Day weekend

Brooklyn

Good works for MLK Day Weekend: Brooklyn migrants, volunteers give back at greenspace

Posted on January 14, 2024

Firefighters help man struck by J train in Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan

J train strikes and injures man on platform of Lower Manhattan subway station: MTA

Posted on January 14, 2024

Gutenberg! The Musical! cameo by Gaten Matarazzo with Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad

Broadway

‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ delivers tons of laughs — and celebrity cameos

Posted on January 14, 2024

Site of Little Italy façade collapse

Little Italy building that once housed oldest cheese shop in America scheduled to be torn down after façade collapse

Posted on January 14, 2024

The Knicks featured Rainbow Flags on the court during Pride Ngiht festivities.

Gay City News

Knicks celebrate Pride at Madison Square Garden

News

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist behind Buffalo supermarket massacre

Posted on January 12, 2024

The Brooklyn Bridge’s arches illuminated through NYC DOT’s new lighting system.

Brooklyn Paper

DOT celebrates Brooklyn Bridge ‘glow up,’ iconic span will be lit for first time since 1983

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Shopping

The most popular Stanley Tumbler — and what the water bottle frenzy says about us

Posted on January 12, 2024

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QNS

Senator Addabbo backs game-changing bill to close legal loophole on drug-impaired driving in New York

125th Street train station in Harlem

Weather

New York City to be hit with another heavy overnight rain and wind storm

Posted on January 12, 2024

Times Square,

Midtown Manhattan

Manhattan community board rejects plans to expedite casino, Penn Station-area development

Posted on January 12, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

24-year-old woman struck dead by driver in Brooklyn: NYPD

A retaining wall that collapse in Tremont on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 damaged five residential properties and three commercial buildings on the block.

Bronx Times

Three residencies issued full vacate orders after retaining wall collapse in the Bronx

Bally's

Bronx

Name-dropping in the Bronx: Bally’s heralds rechristening of former Trump Links golf course

Posted on January 11, 2024

Manhattan

QNS

Queens children to star in Manhattan musical opening this month

The New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan, where Jose Espinoza was indicted on Tuesday.

Manhattan man pretended to be a lawyer to scam immigrants: DA Bragg

Posted on January 11, 2024

Brooklyn woman charged with weapons trafficking

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn woman charged with weapons trafficking, pushing drugs throughout the borough

Creedmoor

QNS

Civic leaders express concern that Creedmoor Master Plan may lead to dirty streets and congestion

Brooklyn Paper

Cops still seeking crooks who bamboozled man looking for love in Brooklyn: NYPD

Queens

QNS

Queens officials back residents’ call for a traffic study of Penelope Avenue in Middle Village to combat Waze-driven traffic woes

Donald Trump at civil fraud trial

Lower Manhattan

Trump civil fraud trial: Judge gets bomb threat at Long Island home as ex-president rants about false ‘election interference’

Posted on January 11, 2024

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QNS

BP Richards green lights Phase 2 of Willets Point redevelopment project with conditions

Photo courtesy of NYCFC

News

Soccer stadium slated to go up near Citi Field, along with affordable housing, gets greenlight from Queens Borough President

Posted on January 11, 2024

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Bronx Times

Brooklyn man charged with stabbing autistic Bronx man to death: NYPD

Japanese male businessmen shake hands with each other

Business

Bolton-St. Johns elevates six dynamic individuals to partner positions

Posted on January 11, 2024

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Politics

Mayor partially restores police and fire budget cuts, brings migrant cost estimate down

Posted on January 10, 2024

The brick façade of a Little Italy building fell on Wednesday afternoon.

Little Italy collapse: Brick façade falls in apparent construction incident at former home of renowned cheese shop

Posted on January 10, 2024

Time to finally give Way2Ride, Gett, Arro, Lyft or any of the other smartphone apps for hailing taxis a chance.

The human cost of the gig economy

Posted on January 10, 2024

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Brooklyn

NYPD launches QR code campaign to help sexual violence survivors get resources needed to recover

Posted on January 10, 2024

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Bronx

Police search for suspect who stabbed autistic Bronx man to death

Posted on January 10, 2024

neighborhood

QNS

Queens neighborhoods to lead NYC real estate resurgence in 2024: Report

Police at a crime scene

Harlem

Harlem murder victim found shot dead inside car was reputed drug dealer: cops

Posted on January 10, 2024

Migrant shelter on Randall's Island

Migrant murdered on Randall’s Island victim of group attack stemming from dispute over girlfriend: NYPD

Posted on January 10, 2024

Police Line Do Not Cross

Brooklyn Paper

Dog walker stabbed by unhinged man in Brooklyn Heights: NYPD

jamaica

QNS

Jamaica-based artist launches jazz-themed film based on own novel

James Madison HS

Brooklyn Paper

Parents, pols to rally outside James Madison High School after Floyd Bennett Field migrant relocation forces students online

innovative new knob to enhance kitchen safety

News

RangeSafe launches innovative new knob to enhance kitchen safety

Posted on January 10, 2024

Migrant families evicted from Manhattan hotel

Midtown Manhattan

Migrant evictions begin with pregnant women, children forced out of hotel as Lander announces investigation into 60-day shelter cap

Posted on January 9, 2024

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, right, appointed Bronx Council Member Amanda Farías, left, as the body's new majority leader on Jan. 3, 2024. Pictured, the pair visit the Ghetto Film School in Mott Haven on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.

Bronx Times

Farías makes history as first Latina majority leader in women-majority City Council

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City evacuates migrants from Floyd Bennett Field before impending major storm

Posted on January 9, 2024

A May Day demonstration in Manhattan last year brought attention to highlight labor issues.

Gay City News

Trans New Yorkers face widespread workplace discrimination, report says

Brooklyn Paper

Several arrested at Chabad Lubavitch HQ as crews try to fill secret tunnel beside synagogue

More from around NYC

The Bronx Chamber of Commerce board members saluted its 2017 Veterans Luncheon honorees.

Bronx Chamber of Commerce seeks nominations for annual veterans luncheon honoring local heroes

USTA officials, Parks representatives and Assembly Member Nily Rozic cut the ribbon at newly refurbished tennis courts at Kissena Park on Oct. 17.

USTA, Parks cut ribbon on refurbished Kissena Park tennis courts

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Proposed Downtown Brooklyn tower could obstruct neighboring views, change landmark row

Participating artists (standing left to right) Sharon De La Cruz, Mariela Figueroa, Eliana Falcón-Dvorsky, Ivan Velez, and panel moderator Megami.

From ‘cringe’ to celebration: Puerto Rican queer comics take the spotlight