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Crack up trio from 'Impractical Jokers' are heading to Radio City for live tour.

Theater

‘Impractical Jokers’ cast head to Radio City for live tour

Posted on April 30, 2024

suspending students Monday afternoon as tensions ran high

Politics

Not budging: Columbia University protesters refuse to end encampment despite admin threats of suspension

Posted on April 29, 2024

colorful light art display as part of a light festival in Lower Manhattan

News

Colorful light festival will brighten up Lower Manhattan after dark this week

Posted on April 29, 2024

Legal law concept image – gavel and handcuffs

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man indicted for allegedly beating, drowning neighbor’s 3-year-old child

Con Ed crew deals with flooded street in Manhattan amid climate change

What does NYC’s future look like? Extremely hot and wet, a city climate report finds

Posted on April 29, 2024

Some on the outside even pressed their hands to the warm glass in a show of solidarity.

World

“We will not stop, we will not rest’: FIT pro-Palestine protesters end lobby encampment, for now

Posted on April 29, 2024

police investigating a shooting in Ozone Park in Queens with yellow caution tape around the scene

Queens

Man shot dead near Queens nightclub, suspect still at large: cops

Posted on April 29, 2024

Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Nurses Association of America, Inc. (TTNAA).

Caribbean Life

‘Together we aspire; together we achieve’: Trinidad & Tobago Nurses Association of America, Inc.

Photo of Israeli hostage and rally in support of hostages release

News

‘We have failed’: A conversation with the parents of an Israeli hostage

Posted on April 29, 2024

NYPD police officers holding flags including American flag at day of remembrance for fallen officers

News

Day of remembrance honors NYPD officers killed in the line of duty

Posted on April 28, 2024

Screenshot of Hell's Kitchen armed robbery and shooting scene

Wild Hell’s Kitchen robbery ends with gunman shooting victim, and accomplice: cops

Posted on April 28, 2024

Scene of Brooklyn shooting

Brooklyn

Two individuals being questioned in Brooklyn following deadly shooting: cops

Posted on April 28, 2024

exterior of bone and joint urgent-care center on the Upper East Side in Manhattan

Health

Inside Manhattan’s first urgent care center solely focused on fixing bones and joints

Posted on April 28, 2024

Why a New York retrial of Harvey Weinstein won’t happen soon — or possibly ever

Posted on April 27, 2024

Select Nana's Green Tea matcha foods and drinks

News

Nana’s Green Tea: Pioneering Japanese tea experience opens in NoMad

Posted on April 27, 2024

NYU students re-erected an encampment outside the college on Friday after having their original demonstration raided by police earlier in the week and were instantly met with a tense face-off by riot cops.

NYU students have tense face-off with police after encampment is reestablished at college

Posted on April 27, 2024

Randy Mastro, corporation counsel nominee

News

City Council opposition to Adams’ likely corporation counsel nominee Mastro grows

Posted on April 26, 2024

Columbia University pro-Palestine protest

Politics

New York Congress members work to combat antisemitism on college campuses amid Columbia University unrest

Posted on April 26, 2024

Ground-breaking in Brooklyn as Black unemployment rate drops

Politics

Black unemployment rate drops significantly in NYC, new economic report shows

Posted on April 26, 2024

Queens home owner weeps at press conference calling on squatters to be removed from her home

Queens

How squatters’ rights in New York were defanged through seven words added to state law

Posted on April 26, 2024

Jose Perez, a Bed-Stuy father whose fiancee died in childbirth, creates an online fundraiser in her honor.

Brooklyn Paper

Grieving father fundraises to lift burden, advocate for Black maternal health after fiancé’s death

#MeToo movement ‘will persist’ despite Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction being thrown out, advocates say

Posted on April 26, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

Police search for suspect who attacked two 12-year-old boys in Brooklyn

suspects wanted in connection with hate in Manhattan

NYC Neighborhoods

Multiple suspects in Manhattan sought for hate crimes during pro-Palestine protests

Posted on April 26, 2024

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Bronx Times

‘Community Board 11 requires intervention’: Board strips Ferrara, D’Angelo of leadership titles in meeting marked by disruptions and a resignation

Columbia University protests see pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrators clash

Politics

Columbia University protests: Protesters clash over controversial campus encampment in chaotic scene

Posted on April 26, 2024

Music

Bernie Williams debuts in center (stage) with the New York Philharmonic

Posted on April 26, 2024

Scott Stringer speaks about sex assault case in 2021

Politics

Appeals court allows Scott Stringer to proceed with defamation case against sex assault accuser who surfaced during previous mayoral run

Posted on April 25, 2024

Location of East Harlem murder

Chelsea man arrested on first-degree murder charge for killing East Harlem woman in relationship

Posted on April 25, 2024

Bronx mother escorted by detectives on charges of killing her daughter

Bronx

Monster mother: Bronx woman cuffed for killing young daughter

Posted on April 25, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

Heroic firefighters rescue cat from Brooklyn house fire

Columbia University student sits before hostage posters

Columbia University student from Israel recounts encountering hate before and during encampment: ‘I have had people spit at me’

Posted on April 25, 2024

exterior photo of the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side in Manhattan

Tasty tour on Lower East Side spotlights 150 years of immigrant cuisine

Posted on April 25, 2024

covid memorial at Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn Paper

COVID-19 memorial to create ‘tangible wall of memory’ at Green-Wood Cemetery

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QNS

Memorial mass for bartender stabbed in Maspeth Irish bar set for Saturday in Elmhurst

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QNS

Queens electeds offer contrasting viewpoints on pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn school honors fallen firefighter Steven Pollard with memorial scholarship

A police officer in front of arrested climate protesters in Tribeca

Politics

Climate protesters arrested for blocking the entrance of Citigroup’s Tribeca headquarters

Posted on April 25, 2024

Salt & Straw ice cream founders with scoops of flavors

Salt & Straw ice cream pop-ups open today and tomorrow offering cool spring treats

Posted on April 25, 2024

photo of woman with braids wearing sweater and black pants, accused of assault in Upper East Side

Good Samaritan on Upper East Side attacked while breaking up a fight

Posted on April 25, 2024

Midtown Manhattan during the day, where an assault took place

Heartless perp in Midtown grabs senior’s walker in assault: cops

Posted on April 25, 2024

American football ball close up on black background. Horizontal sport theme poster, greeting cards, headers, website and app

Jets

Watch the 2024 NFL Draft LIVE with amNewYork

Posted on April 25, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson at Columbia University

Politics

Columbia University protests: House Speaker Mike Johnson visits campus, calls for Shafik’s resignation amidst Pro-Palestine protest encampment

Posted on April 24, 2024

Manhattan DA Bragg at a table with ghost guns on it

News

DA Bragg takes on YouTube’s role in hosting ghost gun assembly tutorials

Posted on April 24, 2024

Fleet Week ship arrives in New York Harbor

All aboard! Fleet Week is returning this May; here are the ships set to come in

Posted on April 24, 2024

Negotiations between Columbia University

Columbia University protests: Admin gives students 48 hours to clear encampment, demonstrators agree to some concessions

Posted on April 24, 2024

Shooting outside Bronx building

Bronx

Shooting outside Bronx building leaves one dead, another critical: NYPD

Posted on April 24, 2024

Atax-chamber

Bronx Times

‘Magician’ Bronx-based tax preparer facing prison time for fraud

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