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Midtown police officer with cat he rescued

Midtown Manhattan

Midtown cop rescues kitten from food truck, then adopts the stray: ‘We are meant to be connected’

Posted on October 26, 2025

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Bronx

Woman stabbed to death outside Bronx bar and lounge: cops

Posted on October 26, 2025

Hit-and-run driver sought in Bronx crash with NYPD vehicle

Bronx

Bronx hit-and-run driver fleeing cops crashes into NYPD vehicle and bicyclist amid getaway

Posted on October 26, 2025

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Fantastic fare-well: How the MTA and famous NYC food vendors are giving the MetroCard a delicious departure

Posted on October 26, 2025

new building near train tracks

IBX Stop by Stop: East New York, Brownsville poised for more housing, shops and transit as plans for 14-mile light-rail continue

Posted on October 26, 2025

NYPD released these images of a man accused of taking upskirt photos of a woman Thursday in Midtown.

Midtown Manhattan

Man wanted for upskirting woman on Midtown subway escalator, police say

Posted on October 24, 2025

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QNS

Myrtle Wyckoff Plaza getting overcrowded with illegal street vendors, leading to an excess of trash, rodents and fear of ICE

The Gift Shop at The Corner at Nordstrom NYC is open for the holiday season.

Holidays

Nordstrom’s flagship NYC store launches The Gift Shop for the holidays

Posted on October 24, 2025

Matt Damon and Alec Baldwin are starring in staged reading of ‘Hold On To Me, Darling,’ by Kenneth Lonergan.

Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin star in West Park Center staged reading, fundraiser

Posted on October 24, 2025

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to the media after she pleaded not guilty to charges that she defrauded her mortgage lender, outside the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S., October 24, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Law

NY Attorney General James seeks dismissal of federal charges, says prosecutor unlawfully appointed

Posted on October 24, 2025

Protesters rallied against the OneLIC Plan at the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement on Thursday. Photo: Shane O'Brien.

QNS

Queensbridge residents rally against OneLIC Neighborhood Plan as Council vote approaches

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QNS

Middle Village local wins Emmy for work on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Law

‘You make justice possible’: Hundreds of newly minted New York court officers sworn into service

Posted on October 23, 2025

Luis Pallchisaca of Richmond Hill was indicted by a Queens grand jury in connection with an unprovoked knife attack on a 7 train rider in Corona.

QNS

Richmond Hill man indicted for unprovoked knife attack on 7 train rider in Corona: DA

Barclays Center

Brooklyn Paper

Barclays Center unveils new fan spaces ahead of Brooklyn Nets season opener

Chauncey Billups, head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, was one of several NBA figures named in a massive illegal gambling indictment unveiled by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Oct. 23, 2025.

Law

Feds unveil sweeping indictments linking NBA figures and mob families to illegal gambling schemes

Posted on October 23, 2025

An LIRR train at Far Rockaway in August 2023.

Dozens of LIRR workers accused of time abuse, making fake ID cards

Posted on October 23, 2025

Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams at press conference

2025 Mayor’s Race

Mayor Adams endorses Andrew Cuomo as his replacement two days before early voting starts

Posted on October 23, 2025

expo

QNS

Flushing Health and Wellness Expo returning to provide seniors free screenings and resources Oct. 28

little girl wrapped in Israeli flag

Op-Ed

Op-Ed | As the war in Gaza winds down, we must also confront the fact that antisemitism has become the ‘new normal’

Posted on October 23, 2025

a street with bus, vehicle and parking lanes

Queens gets quicker: City touts completion of 8 miles of new bus lanes on Hillside Avenue

Posted on October 23, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Fiery final debate sees Mamdani duck ballot questions while trading blows with Cuomo and Sliwa

Posted on October 22, 2025

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ICE raid fallout: Goldman says feds detained four American citizens overnight, pledges task force in response

Posted on October 22, 2025

Yvette Odom, who has volunteered at the Bowen Center for 30 years, prepares food packages for Harlem residents

Harlem

Harlem food pantry faces record demand as shutdown drags on and SNAP cuts loom

Posted on October 22, 2025

housing

QNS

Queens council members rally against Mayor Adams’ affordable housing ballot proposals

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Chinatown

‘They are like the mafia’: Canal Street vendors scared and irate a day after ICE’s surprise Chinatown raid

Posted on October 22, 2025

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QNS

Photos: Middle Village deli honors mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa with sandwich named after him

NY: Maimonides Children’s Emergency Department Opening

Brooklyn Paper

Maimonides celebrates unveiling of Brooklyn’s largest and only standalone Children’s Emergency Department

Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood found a 48-year-old woman dead inside her Hancock Street home on Oct. 21 and detectives are working to determine whether criminality was involved.

QNS

Woman found dead inside her Ridgewood home: NYPD

Seagate Nursing Home, Nina Kravtsov

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn nursing home cited repeatedly before fatal attack on 89-year-old resident

The NYPD says Assa Diawara, 30, of Queens, has been arrested and charged after a newborn baby girl was found abandoned inside Penn Station on Oct. 20. Police had previously released this image as they sought to identify her for questioning.

Queens mother charged after newborn found abandoned in Penn Station

Posted on October 22, 2025

New Yorkers protest ICE raid at Federal Plaza

Lower Manhattan

ICE raid aftermath: Outraged New Yorkers protest at Federal Plaza, demanding end to violent immigration crackdown

Posted on October 22, 2025

ICE agents haul away a protester at Chinatown raid

ICE conducts raid on Chinatown’s Canal Street, multiple people detained as New Yorkers rage

Posted on October 21, 2025

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AEW CEO Tony Khan talks company’s future, deaths of top stars, and ‘Full Gear’ coming to New York area

Posted on October 21, 2025

For Five Coffee Roaster will open across the main concourse from P.J. Clarke's at JFK's New Terminal 6 next year.

QNS

P.J. Clarke’s, For Five Coffee Roasters and Brooklyn Brewery to join concessions at JFK’s New Terminal 6

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. hosted a spirited Diwali celebration at the Kissena Hindu Center in Queens, and presented Citation of Honor to community leaders who have made significant contributions throughout the borough. From left are Dr. Vipul Patel, Sami Sarkar, Guyanese-born Dr. Sharla Madho-Khargi, Dr. Shreeya Tuladhar, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. (in back), Nagasser Ramgarib, Ashif Ahmed, and Rasik Sanghavi. The event was held on Oct. 16.

Caribbean Life

Queens BP Donovan Richards Jr. Diwali celebration honors seven

Karine Silva, survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, embraces her lawyer Jordan Merson outside City Hall after rallying for passage of Intro. 1297, a bill to reopen the pathway to justice for survivors of gender-based violence.

Law

Why a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein is demanding that the NYC Council reopen civil lawsuit window for sex abuse claims: ‘You have a choice’

Posted on October 21, 2025

Speakers at Sunday's town hall criticized State Sen. John Liu for introducing parkland alienation legislation necessary for the progress of Metropolitan Park. Photo courtesy of Flushing Workers Center.

QNS

Over 200 attend ‘anti-casino’ town hall in Flushing, criticize Sen. Liu over support of Metropolitan Park

Suspect sought for punching people in Chinatown

Chinatown

Brute punches senior and child in Chinatown after boy rides skateboard into him

Posted on October 21, 2025

Van damaged in chain reaction crash in Midtown Manhattan that left 10 people injured.

Midtown chain-reaction crash leaves eight pedestrians struck after truck driver loses control of rig: cops

Posted on October 20, 2025

school student taking a test at a desk in a classroom

Nearly 1 in 7 NYC public school students were homeless last year, new report shows

Posted on October 20, 2025

court attendee in front of masked ICE agents at Federal Plaza

Lower Manhattan

ICE in courts: Congress Member Goldman, other NYC pols press NYPD to patrol feds, arrest agents who break the law

Posted on October 20, 2025

Election day man at polls

Politics

2025 Elections: What you need to know before voting

Posted on October 20, 2025

two men standing at a table of police hats

Queens

Band of blue: Retired NYPD officers with thousands of artifacts advocate for opening new police museum in NYC

Posted on October 20, 2025

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Midtown Manhattan

Cops wrestle with thousands of orthodox Jewish demonstrators protesting forced military conscription in Israel

Posted on October 20, 2025

Subway officer in transit system

NYC subway train separates in the Bronx; passengers forced to evacuate

Posted on October 20, 2025

Zohran Mamdani smiling with hands folded in front of him

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani says he’s preparing to lead, but isn’t taking anything for granted

Posted on October 20, 2025

This week’s episode of The Third Rail focuses on the 1 line, running from the Bronx to Lower Manhattan, and what commuters have to say about the 2025 NYC Mayor’s Race and other big topics affecting the city.

2025 Mayor’s Race

amNY ‘The Third Rail’: Talking with 1 train riders about the NYC Mayor’s Race and more

Posted on October 19, 2025

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Bronx Times’ 2025 General Election Voter Guide: What to know if you’re voting in the Bronx

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FDNY celebrates groundbreaking for new $40 million firehouse in Rockaway Park

Laurie Jacoby

Meet Laurie Jacoby, the woman behind Brooklyn’s biggest stage: Barclays Center

"Lesbian Space Princess," directed by Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs, opens Oct. 31.

‘Lesbian Space Princess’: A delightful animated sci-fi comedy