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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

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

Posted on January 29, 2025

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QNS

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

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Chinatown

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

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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

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

Posted on January 28, 2025

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Politics

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

Posted on January 28, 2025

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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

Harlem

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

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

Posted on January 27, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

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

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QNS

Jenifer Rajkumar drops comptroller bid to challenge Jumaane Williams for Public Advocate

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QNS

Mets fans and players have an Amazin’ time at Amazin’ Day

Republican Council Members Joann Ariola of Queens (left) and David Carr of Staten Island (right) are facing off to be the chamber's next minority leader. Taken on Jan. 23, 2025.

Politics

Boro battle: Race for GOP leadership in City Council comes down to Staten Island’s Carr and Queens’ Ariola

Posted on January 27, 2025

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North Corona teen criminally charged with murder after fatal Sunday morning stabbing: NYPD

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Gay City News

Trial begins in string of deadly nightlife attacks targeting gay men

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QNS

Ridgewood EMT leaps onto subway tracks to save civilian in life-threatening rescue

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Politics

Mayor Adams not ‘feeling best,’ on ‘limited’ public schedule this week while undergoing medical tests, City Hall says

Posted on January 27, 2025

Bus crash in Midtown claimed worker's life

Midtown Manhattan

Worker dies in Midtown after MTA bus crashes into boom lift

Posted on January 27, 2025

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QNS

‘Operation Frostbite’ dismantles Flushing drug trafficking ring, indicts four: DA

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Bronx Times

South Bronx shelter plan sparks outrage as residents and officials push back

ProXtracts was issued the first tier one cannabis processing license in New York City and plans to start producing this spring in Morris Park.

Bronx Times

NYC’s first tier one cannabis facility opening in the Bronx this spring

A mentally disturbed man in obvious need of medical assistance was left wallowing in his own filth on a Manhattan subway on Sunday while also sending straphangers running in panic — a reminder of the city's continued struggle to address the severely mentally ill in the subway system. (Part of image blurred for content)

NYC subway riders shaken by mentally ill man’s filthy breakdown on 6 train, caught on camera

Posted on January 26, 2025

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Editorial: Preston HS scholars travel to Europe for the EF Global Leadership Summit

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Burglar breaks into Woodside home, confronted by elderly resident: NYPD

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Partner of slain Brooklyn activist Ryan Carson calls for ethics probe into Council Member’s online attacks

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