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Vintage jewelry on display at The Winter Show

The Winter Show 2025: A carnival of artistic brilliance at the Park Avenue Armory

Posted on January 30, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

‘My son was tremendous’: Grieving family, community hold vigil for Heath Campbell, 15-year-old shooting victim in Brooklyn

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QNS

Notorious squatter pleads guilty to illegally occupying Flushing home: DA

Alicia Vaichunas

QNS

District 30 race: Alicia Vaichunas builds campaign support with Sliwa endorsement

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Brooklyn Paper

Third time’s the harm: E-bike sparks third fire in as many years at NYPD’s Red Hook auto pound

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QNS

Rep. Grace Meng continues push for Lunar New Year recognition

R train pulling into station in NYC transit system

Transit cites safety concerns after R train theft and joyride in Queens

Posted on January 30, 2025

Suspect in Staten Island rape case

Staten Island cops seek rape suspect accused of attacking 5-year-old stepdaughter

Posted on January 29, 2025

NYPD commissioner and chief of detectives discuss ICE raids

Politics

ICE raids: NYPD says migrants shouldn’t fear law enforcement – unless they are criminals

Posted on January 29, 2025

Tren de Aragua gang member indicted for gun running

Queens

A history of violence: 10 Tren de Aragua gun runners indicted in Queens firearm and drug bust

Posted on January 29, 2025

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QNS

LaGuardia Airport takes center stage in new PBS documentary ‘Extreme Airport Engineering’

Mayor Adams with attorney on resignation rumor

Politics

‘Completely false’: Mayor Adams’ defense attorney fiercely denies rumors of resignation and possible plea deal with feds

Posted on January 29, 2025

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Bronx Times

Electeds pledge support for migrants following ICE raid that rattled Highbridge community

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Brooklyn Paper

From farm to cup: How Devoción delivers the freshest Colombian coffee in Brooklyn

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QNS

Teenager injured while subway surfing on F train in Briarwood: NYPD

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QNS

Plans for a 16-mile Queens greenway advance as DOT wraps up public workshops

Gansevoort Square in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District is set to undergo a major transformation with a mixed-income housing development and a new cultural hub in plans that Mayor Eric Adams and the city's Economic Development Corporation (EDC) rolled out Wednesday.

Business

Prime cuts: NYC unveils plan to transform Meatpacking District’s last-remaining market into housing and cultural hub

Posted on January 29, 2025

a bus on Queens Boulevard that will soon offer more bus service if a plan is approved

MTA approves major changes coming to Queens bus network starting this summer

Posted on January 29, 2025

funding freeze

QNS

Queens officials slam Trump’s federal funding freeze, call it ‘illegal and reckless’

Chinatown Midnight Madness firecrackers for Lunar New Year

Photos

Midnight Madness takes over Chinatown for fiery Lunar New Year celebration

Posted on January 29, 2025

The NYPD vs. FDNY basketball game took place on Jan. 26 at the Barclays Center.

Sports

NYPD and FDNY square off at Barclays Center in annual charity basketball game

Posted on January 29, 2025

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QNS

Spectrum Scholars program offers $20K scholarships for college juniors in need

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Gentrification at its best’: Mike’s Pizza among eight Brooklyn stores forced to close by landlord

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QNS

Bronx woman sentenced to 18 years for fatal drag racing crash on Whitestone Expressway in 2023: DA

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QNS

MTA wraps up Queens bus redesign hearings with focus on community feedback and new routes

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News

Furry forecast: What you need to know about Groundhog Day in NYC on Feb. 2

Posted on January 29, 2025

Republicans in City Council pick new minority leader David Carr

News

Carr elected NYC Council minority leader by half of Republican caucus as other half contests the vote

Posted on January 28, 2025

Police are investigating a shooting in Brooklyn that left one teen dead and another injured.

Brooklyn

Cops seek suspect who fatally shot teen, injured another in Brooklyn

Posted on January 28, 2025

NYC pol speaks out about Trump federal funding freeze

Politics

‘Stealing our lunch money’: NYC pols fume over Trump’s federal funding freeze, demand mayor sue president to stop it

Posted on January 28, 2025

Decals on an officially licensed New York State marijuana dispensary.

News

New York’s economy lights up with $1 billion in legal pot sales

Posted on January 28, 2025

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Bronx Times

City confirms 2,200-bed South Bronx shelter will open in February despite opposition during heated meeting

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Business

Potential Trump mass deportations could have ‘devastating impact’ on NYC, financial experts say

Posted on January 28, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

‘We are not just files’: 115 new sexual assault lawsuits filed against juvenile detention centers in New York City

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QNS

Two gunmen sought in fatal shooting of Queens Village man at Cunningham Heights complex Monday: NYPD

Speed cameras in NYC

Death on the streets: NYC pedestrian fatalities spiked in 2024 even as speed camera program expanded, study finds

Posted on January 28, 2025

Chief of Patrol John Chell and Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry

Politics

Some NYPD brass were ‘unprofessional’ in barrage of social media posts last year, DOI report finds

Posted on January 28, 2025

Additional NYPD officers in the subways

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the NYPD’s first full-fledged overnight subway surge of cops riding the trains

Posted on January 28, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Worth the wait’: Rare, stinky corpse flower draws hundreds to Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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QNS

Council Member Linda Lee’s new bill brings peer-led mental health support to NYC students

ICE raid in Bronx in which suspected undocumented person was arrested

Bronx

ICE raid: Bronx ‘criminal alien’ arrested on kidnapping charge as Trump Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends early morning sting

Posted on January 28, 2025

Manhattan subway attack suspect arrested and smiling for pushing woman into moving train

Manhattan subway attack: Deranged man says voices in his head made him push woman into moving train

Posted on January 28, 2025

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QNS

JFK Terminal 6 taps NYC artist Jane Dickson for iconic public art installation, set to debut in 2026

Man arrested during NYPD toll evasion operation amid congestion pricin

Brooklyn

Heavy toll: NYPD, city agencies crack down on drivers evading congestion pricing and tunnel payments

Posted on January 27, 2025

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QNS

Larry Penner, beloved transit advocate, historian and writer, dies at 71

The judge’s gavel and scales as a symbol of the judiciary and justice.

QNS

Sexual predator pleads guilty to rape and attempted murder in violent Jamaica rooftop attack: DA

Hundreds at Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Manhattan

People

Holocaust Remembrance Day memorial event in Manhattan brings 200 survivors together, 80 years later: ‘I still feel the pain of it’

Posted on January 27, 2025

MTA Queens bus stopping

Easy riders: Queens bus network to speed up commutes with new ‘rush routes’

Posted on January 27, 2025

politicians at childcare center rally

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn childcare centers facing sudden closure say city is behind on payments, used incorrect enrollment data

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‘Getting dizzy just thinking about it’: Bronx borrowers scramble as student loan collections return

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Twenty people indicted in Queens-based $4.6M vehicle theft ring after three-year probe: DA

NY: Things Fall Apart: Meena Hasan at the Old Stone House

Art installation at the Old Stone House connects Battle of Brooklyn to British colonization in India

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.

Queer Catholics cautiously welcome Pope Leo XIV