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Heavy smoke leaves 18 injured in Washington Heights subway after train strikes object

Posted on February 25, 2025

Grand Central Station passageway

New 7 train passageway opens at Grand Central Station, improving customer flow

Posted on February 25, 2025

Affordable housing in New York City

Politics

NYC’S HOUSING CRISIS: Why affordable housing really isn’t as ‘affordable’ as you think

Posted on February 25, 2025

Migrant leader of cell phone robbery crew

Migrant leader of Manhattan cell phone robbery crew sentenced to years in state prison

Posted on February 25, 2025

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QNS

Mayor Adams breaks ground on new Far Rockaway health center to expand care access by 2027

entrance to Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in Manhattan

News

Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Lower Manhattan to close on March 26

Posted on February 25, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Ferdinando’s Focacceria closes abruptly after 121 years in Carroll Gardens

Texas tourists with NYPD chief who helped find bag lost in subway

Midtown Manhattan

Lost and found: How two Texas tourists became a ‘subway story’ in the best way with an NYPD chief’s help

Posted on February 25, 2025

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QNS

Exclusive: Ridgewood priest and Hungry Monk founder Fr. Mike Lopez announces bid for Council District 30

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QNS

Queens advocate fights for NYC’s street vendors amid immigration and policy battles

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Politics

NYC mayoral race: Cuomo holds double-digit edge in latest poll as reports indicate he could launch campaign this weekend

Posted on February 25, 2025

NYCLASS and animal rights activists rallied outside the Criminal Courthouse calling on the city council to pass Ryder's Law. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann

Politics

While trial for alleged horse abuser Ian McKeever is postponed, animal rights activists demand passage of Ryder’s Law

Posted on February 25, 2025

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QNS

Saving history: Queens preservationist helps rescue vintage storefront signs

Silhouette of police officer standing in doorway of crime scene

Bronx

Bronx stray bullet shooting: Five teens cuffed after woman wounded by gunfire as she slept

Posted on February 25, 2025

AG James announces DoorDash settlement on tip theft

Business

Tipping point: Doordash agrees to pay millions in unpaid tips to NY delivery workers in settlement with AG James

Posted on February 24, 2025

Mayor Adams speaks about calls for his resignation or removal

Politics

Mayor Adams dismisses cacophony of calls for his resignation or removal, charging they’re antidemocratic

Posted on February 24, 2025

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Bronx Times

Longtime Army veteran fired from Bronx VA under Trump federal workforce cuts

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Flagrant act of Islamophobia:’ NYPD investigates anti-Muslim incident at Kensington mosque

Protesters against NYPD gang database at City Hall

Lower Manhattan

Advocates call for NYPD gang database to be abolished as police brass call it an instrumental tool: ‘This is about oppression’

Posted on February 24, 2025

Person comes out of Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown

Asylum seeker intake and services at The Roosevelt Hotel to close, Adams says

Posted on February 24, 2025

beer week

QNS

NYC Beer Week is in full swing, here’s how to celebrate in Queens and across the city

strike notice at nyu langone hospital-brooklyn

Brooklyn Paper

Nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn prepare to strike as contract negotiations continue

Kadary Richmond St. John's

News

St. John’s Kadary Richmond wins Big East Player of the Week honors, groin pulls and all

Posted on February 24, 2025

Scene of Bronx double shooting

Bronx

Bronx double shooting near seafood restaurant leaves man dead, another wounded: cops

Posted on February 24, 2025

rendering of Lenox Hill Hospital expansion.

Upper East Side

EXCLUSIVE | Religious leaders unite to combat massive Lenox Hill Hospital expansion

Posted on February 24, 2025

Crowded subway car in congestion pricing era

Congestion pricing: What major NYC subway and transit projects are at stake if Trump kills Manhattan toll plan?

Posted on February 23, 2025

Knicks in the middle of Altice MSG Optimum dispute

News

Game on! MSG Networks return to Optimum after the two companies strike a deal

Posted on February 23, 2025

New Yorkers called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to remove Mayor Eric Adams from office at a rally in Lower Manhattan on Feb. 22, 2025.

Protesters in Manhattan repeat calls for Hochul to fire Mayor Adams days after she rules out removal ‘at this time’

Posted on February 23, 2025

Community members lay flowers down in honor of Sam Nordquist.

Gay City News

West Village candlelight vigil remembers Sam Nordquist, other trans lives lost

Candles with Pope Francis' image outside Rome hospital

News

Pope Francis thanks faithful for prayers and ‘closeness’ in message a day after ‘respiratory crisis’ left him in critical condition

Posted on February 22, 2025

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Bronx Times

South Bronx migrant shelter opens amid ongoing community controversy

Crayola is releasing a box of retired colors for a limited time.

News

Crayola is temporarily bringing back popular retired colors

Posted on February 22, 2025

brooklyn great backyard bird count

Brooklyn Paper

In Brooklyn, the Great Backyard Bird Count connects people with birds and contributes to science that protects them

The infamous accused Midtown assassin Luigi Mangione who fatally gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year appeared in Manhattan court Friday for the first time since his arraignment.

Lower Manhattan

Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan court as hordes of supporters gather outside

Posted on February 21, 2025

whitestone

QNS

Whitestone town hall addresses crackdown on illegal cannabis shops

Protestors protest in front of Hakeem Jeffries' office denouncing President Trump, Elon Musk and calling for a removal of Mayor Eric Adams.

Brooklyn

Protesters call on Hakeem Jeffries in Brooklyn to do more to resist Trump administration

Posted on February 21, 2025

queens bus network redesign

QNS

MTA to launch Queens Bus Network Redesign in two phases, starting June 29

Buildings

Brooklyn

FDNY investigating deadly fire that broke out in Brooklyn apartment building

Posted on February 21, 2025

long island man

QNS

Long Island man pleads guilty to ‘sadistic’ 2020 crime spree, including Queens kidnappings

Police tape lies on the ground of a crime scene

Man arrested in Staten Island collision that killed one person four years ago

Posted on February 21, 2025

LIC skyline

New support hotline is available to help New Yorkers who moved out of NYC and miss it

Posted on February 21, 2025

The formerly incarcerated and the families of those still behind bars rallied in Midtown and Albany on Thursday to demand a deep culture reset in prisons and jails in the aftermath of the Robert Brooks beating as Governor Hochul announced the arrest of staff involved in the caught on video attack.

Midtown Manhattan

Midtown rally seeks prison culture reform as Hochul announces charges against guards in inmate Robert Brooks’ prison murder

Posted on February 20, 2025

The embattled mayor was holding a press conference inside of the Bronx’s 40th Precinct less than 24 hours after attending a court hearing on the decision of the DOJ dropping charges against him when the tense interaction unfolded.

Politics

Mayor Adams abruptly ends press conference after media questions him about Hochul, congestion pricing

Posted on February 20, 2025

Ed Koch-Queensboro Bridge traffic light during congestion pricing

Congestion pricing: What you need to know about the future of the tolling program as Trump tries to kill it

Posted on February 20, 2025

One of New York's largest labor unions is set to protest Con Edison's proposed rate increase with a rally on Feb. 20.

News

‘I live in fear’: Essential workers rallying against Con Edison rate hike proposals

Posted on February 20, 2025

Speaker Adams as a potential NYC mayoral race candidate

Politics

NYC mayoral race: Will City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams jump into the primary?

Posted on February 20, 2025

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaking about Eric Adams, congestion pricing

Politics

Hochul spares Mayor Adams from removal ‘at this time,’ seeks new checks on his power instead

Posted on February 20, 2025

pro drag wrestler in red hook

Brooklyn Paper

A Matter of Pride: How pro-drag-wrestlers make space for queer fighters in Brooklyn

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Sonrisa rum tasting draws Fat Joe fans to Throggs Neck

iFly representatives and members of the LIC business community host a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the company's new LIC facility. Photo: Ramy Mahmoud.

iFly Indoor Skydiving hosts ribbon-cutting celebration ahead of LIC grand opening

red hook pool closed sign

‘It’s not a realistic thing’: Lengthy Red Hook Pool closure leaves residents frustrated

Congressmember Mike Lawler of New York speaks in Washington on July 17 during a press conference to support the LGBTQ hotline.

‘Unfathomable’: Trump administration ends LGBTQ youth suicide hotline