Daniel Penny’s defense likely to invoke NYC subway as a key ‘witness’ in...
US Marine veteran Daniel Penny (C) is walked out of the New York Police Department 5th Precinct in Lower Manhattan, May 12, 2023.Daniel Penny stands trial this month for fatally choking Jordan Neely, a...
View ArticleNew York voters face Prop 1 ballot question on enshrining abortion, equality...
Proposition 1 will appear on the back of ballots this election cycle.Supporters tout the measure as a constitutional safeguard to enshrine abortion access and prevent the creation of new forms of...
View ArticleNYPD: 7 cars collide at Brooklyn intersection, injuring 17 people
The intersection where police say 16 people were injured.No one was seriously hurt but at least five children were sent to the hospital [ more › ]
View ArticleEarly Addition: A guide to Flavortown Township, New Jersey
Because Guy Fieri keeps dining at drive-ins and dives in the Garden State, here are your early links: Tourists not into the Vessel's new safety features, rail biking in the Catskills, mah-jongg on Long...
View ArticleWhitney Museum will be free for all visitors 25 and under starting in...
Two people attend Free Friday Nights at the Whitney Museum.“If you really want to push and evolve the discourse, many more people need to have access,” said Whitney trustee and artist Julie Mehretu. [...
View ArticleWorking Families Party confronts its own mystery candidate in tight Hudson...
Working Families Party members confronted Anthony Frascone at his Rockland County home.Party members had a bizarre conversation with their own candidate for New York’s 17th District. [ more › ]
View ArticleA night at ‘Poly Poly Oxen Free,’ Brooklyn’s new polyamorous dating show
Four contestants in the “Poly Pool" at a recent "Poly Poly Oxen Free."“We’re bringing you the hottest, most emotionally stable poly people in Brooklyn,” said the event’s host. [ more › ]
View ArticleState Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani joins Adams' challengers for NYC mayor
Mamdani speaks at a rally announcing a hunger strike to protest U.S. military support for Israel's bombing campaign on Gaza on November 30, 2023.Mamdani, a democratic socialist, plans to campaign on a...
View ArticleNYC subway ridership hits new milestone, but still far short of pre-pandemic...
Commuters are returning to the subways, but ridership remains well below pre-pandemic levels.Turnstiles have clocked 4.3 million entries on five different days this fall, a benchmark not seen since the...
View ArticleExtra Extra: Americans are about to bombard Nuuk
Because there's now a direct flight from Newark to Greenland, here are your afternoon links: Gross Zillow listings, Catholic church vs. an East Village theater, an alpaca sneezed on the king and more....
View ArticleBronx auto shop worker charged with ordering hit on rival worker
Police have charged a man they say shot two people in front of a Brooklyn migrant center.Prosecutors say Christian "Coco" Lugo ran a criminal enterprise that scammed insurance companies and used...
View Article'No longer a national laughingstock’: NYC’s LaGuardia named 'best US airport'...
Views of the new Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport.LaGuardia was once notorious for being one of the nation's worst airports, with Joe Biden once calling it a "third-world country." [ more › ]
View ArticleFormer Abercrombie CEO and 2 others charged with sex trafficking and...
Mike Jeffries, CEO of clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, leaves a store in Paris on Oct. 27, 2012, as some workers protest against their working conditions.The men are accused of using coercion...
View ArticleMTA is far more broke than previously expected, state comptroller says
MTA Chairperson Janno Lieber might frown after he reads a new state comptroller report on the state of his agency's finances.A new analysis of the agency's finances is bad news for transit riders. [...
View ArticleThese NYC ballot questions would change the City Charter in big ways. Here’s...
Then-candidate Eric Adams votes during the 2021 mayoral election in New York City on Nov. 2, 2021.A charter revision commission empaneled by Mayor Eric Adams issued the proposals. [ more › ]
View ArticleOutside the city, Democrats and Republicans run on outcry over migrants in NYC
Laura Gillen campaigns against Anthony D'Esposito on October 17, 2024.In tight suburban congressional races, both parties are claiming to have the toughest policies on a border 2,000 miles away. [ more...
View ArticleSuspects at large after pickup truck driver fatally strikes cyclist in Queens...
The intersection of 37th Street and 34th Avenue in Astoria, Queens.“The truck was really going fast,” one witness says. “The lady didn’t even stand a chance.” [ more › ]
View ArticleNYC councilmember chides Rikers for leaking details of her assault while...
Councilmember Sandy Nurse, pictured in this file photo, said she was assaulted during a tour of Rikers.Councilmember Sandy Nurse was conducting a tour when she said she was assaulted by an inmate. [...
View ArticleEarly Addition: Get tested for syphilis
Because congenital syphilis, once close to being eradicated, is bouncing back in New York, here are your early links: New ticker-tape supplier, the supposedly best bagels in the city, Rudy Giuliani has...
View ArticleNewly discovered fault line explains why NYC shook so hard after earthquake
A "previously unmapped" fault line caused April's earthquake that shook New York City.New research found that the angle of the fault line caused stronger tremors to be felt miles away from the...
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