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Leila Bozorg in 2018. She will serve as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's deputy commissioner for housing. Leila Bozorg will serve as deputy...

Betsy Head Park in Brownsville, where police say a 12-year-old boy stabbed another boy on Dec. 18, 2025 The incident happened at a Brown...

The intersection of Stanton and Clinton streets on the Lower East Side, where the NYPD says a driver fatally struck a woman on Dec. 18, 2025...

Cardinal Dolan (R) and New York Archbishop-Designate Ronald Hicks (L) walk inside St. Patrick's Cathedral on December 18, 2025 in New York C...

Look at that thing! It's the Gateway project's big boring machine. The massive machines will drill about 27 feet of tunnel a day. [ more...

Catherine Almonte Da Costa (left), named by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Dec. 17 his director of appointments. Da Costa resigned the follow...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams The move will ensure a majority of Adams appointees remain on the board during the first year of Mamdani’...

The stolen beer primarily consisted of Corona and Modelo imported from Mexico, which was then inspected and resold in the Bronx. Federal...

New York Attorney General Letitia James The Trump administration vowed to block Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that perfor...

Luigi Mangione appears with his attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo (L) for a pretrial evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO...

Calvin Baker, a general merchandise vendor in Harlem, speaks at a rally in support of street vendor legislation outside City Hall on Dec. 18...

Riverside Park street stars's flickr Because they weren't Christmas decorations, here are your afternoon links: most borrowed library bo...

President Trump has so far not weighed in on New York's Republican candidate for governor. Both Rep. Elise Stefanik and Nassau County Execut...

Because a new coffee chain is king, here are your early links: Colin Jost and Pete Davidson's Staten Island Ferry boat dream isn't done yet,...

People stand in the rain in Brooklyn on Oct. 13, 2025. Gusts could get above 40 mph and around an inch of rain could fall, the National...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan speaks during special interfaith Shabbat services. Dolan submitted his resignation in February. Hicks is most rec...

Manhattan Borough President and soon-to-be Comptroller Mark Levine A new report from Mark Levine, the city’s comptroller-elect, includes...

“Sing the Children Over” by Kath Bloom and Loren Mazzacane Connors didn’t catch on in 1982. Now, it’s a collector’s dream, and boxes of dead...

Reps. Dan Goldman and Jerry Nadler, New York Democrats, at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan last summer. Democratic lawmakers have re...

Federal authorities seized multiple firearms during a raid at the James Weldon Johnson Houses in East Harlem on Dec. 11, 2025. Prosecuto...

Because he put some sentimental items in there, here are your afternoon links: The Knicks don't care that much about the NBA Cup, how to hav...

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said recruitment levels are up. The mayor announced he'd add budget funding for new police but hasn't be...

City Hall The Council had been considering a slew of housing bills, including looser short-term rental rules and new affordable housing...

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams described Mayor Adams' tenure as a missed opportunity. "We went through a period of embarrassment as a co...

Because Pope Leo is reportedly planning to give the job to his home state friend, here are your early links: White House Chief of Staff Susi...