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"Solid ice." "Outrageous." "Not fair." These are some of the comments bike riders posted on Tuesday night and earlier today about conditions on the Queensboro Bridge bike lane more than two days after a fairly insignificant snowfall ended on Sunday night. Photographic evidence suggests that the Department of Transportation did not fully clear the way for riders - many of whom are delivery workers - on the second-busiest East River bridge (and the only one to link Queens directly to Manhattan Island).

The FDNY is battling a smoky four-alarm fire at a Brooklyn waterfront warehouse Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters were called just after 12:30 p.m. to the building on Columbia Street. The building is right near another warehouse in Red Hook that was heavily damaged by a blaze in September. This is also close to an NYPD storage facility that burned down in 2022, destroying years worth of evidence including DNA and items from crime scenes.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's legal administration is taking the reins with an ambitious plan to expand the city Law Department by at least 200 lawyers. But who are his top lawyers and how will their different roles intersect with his agenda? Just before his inauguration, Mamdani named longtime public interest attorney Steven Banks as his pick for the city's next corporation counsel, the head of the massive agency that manages the city's litigation, and named Ramzi Kassem as chief counsel, the mayor's personal lawyer.

Yet four years away from that deadline, not only is the Empire State 15 gigawatts (GW) shy of its goal but also investments in renewable energy are dipping. On Dec. 19, 2025, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Public Renewables Transparency Act, sponsored by Assembly Member Sarahana Shrestha (D-Ulster County), to open up the New York Power Authority's (NYPA) conferral process

I effing love this job. And that's because since I was a kid, I've been super passionate about all the stuff that we share in New York. The things that matter most to me in New York are transit, parks, libraries, the things that get rid of the inequalities that still persist in New York and maybe have gotten worse, and that make New York a place that everybody can participate in.

The real estate developer Gotham Organization plans to lease land owned by the MTA and construct a 1,150-unit apartment complex on Quay Street, with buildings reaching 600 feet tall - among the highest in the neighborhood - across a narrow estuary from the long-stalled Bushwick Inlet Park. The 28-acre greenspace was a centerpiece of the sweeping land use plan that transformed Greenpoint and neighboring Williamsburg, but remains years from completion amid legal battles over cleanup of the toxins left behind by fossil fuel companies.

At the same time, children's development and families' needs do not end when the bell rings or when they enter kindergarten; continuous afterschool programming from early childhood through adolescence is critical. To fully realize the goals of universal childcaresupport working families, advance educational equity, and strengthen the economyNew York City must extend this vision to K12 students and make universal afterschool programming a core part of the solution.

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The DOC has violated city law and our client's rights, Fiorenzo said during testimony to the New York City Board Correction at its Jan. 13 hearing. As a result of this unlawful transfer, our client is now detained out of state, separated from counsel and family, and effectively beyond the reach of meaningful legal advocacyThis is precisely the harm that [the law] was designed to prevent: the extrajudicial transfer of people in city custody into federal immigration detention without judicial oversight and due process.

Hosted by The Danny Fisher Show on Instagram, the video posted on Instagram on Jan. 17 showed participants used their best athletic skills, like climbing and jumping, to win the comical subterranean sports competition. We're here outside of Broadway-Lafayette in SoHo for New York City's very first fare evasion Olympics, Fisher, appearing as a sportscaster, exclaimed at the station. They truly went all out. They've installed new state-of-the-art turnstiles, really to challenge our competitors.

Police on Staten Island are investigating after a man was killed after apparently being mauled to death by his roommate's dog. Officers from the 122nd Precinct rushed to 608 New Dorp Lane, near Miller Field in New Dorp, just after 4 p.m. on Jan. 18 after receiving a 911 call reporting a vicious animal attack. Upon arrival, cops discovered the victim, a 59-year-old man, who was unconscious and unresponsive, covered in blood with dog bites across his entire body.

Police are investigating after a woman was found dead inside her Bronx apartment on Saturday morning. According to authorities, cops from the 46th precinct were called to an apartment located at 38 Featherbed Lane at around 9:39 a.m. on Jan. 17 after family members of a 50-year-old woman asked for a wellness check. Upon arrival, cops discovered Susan Longton face up in her bedroom.

You could lean into tradition with white tablecloths and candlelit Italian - perfect for a Lady and the Tramp-style spaghetti moment. Or perhaps French fine dining is more your speed. Some couples gravitate toward seafood, sharing a chilled platter of oysters or a towering shellfish spread, while others prefer the intensity of an omakase counter, where the evening unfolds course by course.

Fire marshals in Queens are investigating what sparked a three-alarm fire in a tire shop that extended to a nearby apartment building early on Saturday morning. Two firefighters wound up being hospitalized after being caught in a burst of smoke and flame during the fire that engulfed 1905 Flushing Ave. in Ridgewood just after 4 a.m. on Jan. 17. The first responding units from FDNY Battalion 28 reported heavy smoke pouring out of the tire shop and apartment building.

Kianna Underwood, a former Nickelodeon child actress, has been identified as the woman killed in a hit-and-run early Friday morning in New York City. The NYPD confirmed Underwood's death Saturday, adding the 33-year-old was struck by two drivers in Brownsville, Brooklyn, after attempting to cross the street without the right of way. Underwood's IMDb page says she appeared in episodes of "All That" and "Little Bill" from 1999-2005. Police said they were still looking for the drivers involved in the fatality and had not yet made any arrests.

Tenants of New York City Housing Authority developments in Chelsea went to court Wednesday to at least temporarily block the demolition of nearly 20 buildings and new construction by a private developer. NYCHA argues it's seeking to demolish many-decades-old buildings and let private companies rebuild, while some residents argue relocations would be traumatic and they would be packed into fewer, bigger buildings.

On Jan. 17-19 overnight, downtown A and C trains in Manhattan will skip 116 St, 110 St, 103 St, 96 St, 86 St, 81 St and 72 St. Uptown C trains in Manhattan will skip Spring St, 23 St and 50 St during the same time. There will be no overnight C service this weekend, take the A train instead. In Manhattan, uptown E trains will skip Spring St and 23 St from 11:45 p.m. on Jan. 16 to 5 a.m. Jan. 20.

The celebration starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Howard Gilman Opera House and includes remarks by Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II and Citizens Youth Speaker Aponi Kafele. Dr. Cornel West once described Barber as "the closest person we have to Martin Luther King, Jr. in our midst." Kafele is in BAM's Brooklyn Interns for Arts and Culture (BIAC) program and a senior at Essex Street Academy.

They blocked the door, kind of pointed some guns at some of the customers in the front, told everyone to stay back,

At the very moment the city is committing to safer, more ambitious street transformations on major corridors, allowing motor vehicles back onto streets within public parks moves in the opposite direction,

The initiative is part of the NYC Bright Starts program, and it was pitched to reinforce New York City Public Schools' existing infant and toddler programs through the federal Head Start program, which offers a variety of services to support school-readiness for children from birth to age 5 for low-income families. Last year, the Trump administration attempted to bar undocumented immigrant children from enrolling in Head Start programs, but a federal judge's injunction put the effort on hold nationwide in September.

Sumathy Kumar and I have fought side by side in Albany to win real, transformative change for working-class families and, as we look to freeze rents and hold bad landlords accountable, the tenant movement couldn't have a more powerful champion. I'm proud to partner with Sumathy in the fight for every New Yorker to have a safe, stable, and affordable place to call home.

A new exhibition at the New York Historical museum looks at the immigrant experience in New York City through a range of revealing and diverse viewpoints, with more than 100 photographs and objects showing how the city has been shaped by people from across the globe.