When pundits discuss new Mayor Zohran Mamdani's affordability policies, they talk about the benefits to his base of young supporters. They imagine how the call for cheaper groceries and rent freezes will help 20- and 30-somethings navigating early adulthood and parenthood. But Mamdani's core message on housing and food prices applies just as much to older New Yorkers, and his affordability agenda can deliver for them, too. They cared for us, now it's our turn to care for them.
New York runs on tight schedules that even the city's most iconic tree isn't immune to. If you've been telling yourself you'll swing by Rockefeller Center one day soon, here's your final nudge: the famous Christmas tree comes down tomorrow, which makes today the very last day to catch it in all its twinkly glory. After anchoring Midtown's holiday season since early December, the Norway spruce from East Greenbush, New York, is officially clocking out.
"When the elevator is broken, we need to stay home," said Aleksandra, 79, who uses a walker and asked that her last name not be used for fear of causing trouble with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which runs the complex. "I live five floors up, she lives third floor, he lives seven or eight floors," she said, nodding toward Valeriy Feldman, 85, who uses a wheelchair. Translating Feldman's words from Russian, Aleksandra added: "Every time, it's a problem for him."
A New York City judge on Wednesday ordered a mental health evaluation for a Massachusetts woman charged in the unprovoked stabbing of a tourist changing her baby's diaper in a bathroom of Macy's flagship store in midtown Manhattan around the holidays. Kerri Aherne, 43, of Tewksbury, will be examined by mental health professionals to determine whether she's fit to stand trial, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.
An NYPD officer shot and injured a man armed with a sharp object inside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Thursday evening, according to police officials. Authorities said officers responded to a 911 call about gunfire near the hospital around 5:30 p.m. and encountered the man before opening fire. Officials said the man was in critical condition and that the investigation is ongoing.
From time to time, a piece of vocabulary comes along which the public didn't realize it was missing and soon enough can't live without. "Commie Corridor"-to designate the precincts of Queens and north Brooklyn overrun with youthful lefties-is one such phrase, a zippy addition to the city's lexicon of pop anthropology. Its sudden currency was the handiwork of Michael Lange, a twenty-five-year-old political analyst and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who used it in his Substack newsletter back in June, just as early voting in the Democratic primary began. Zohran Mamdani, Lange wrote, might just be able to win, if he could inspire staggering turnout in this "young and hungry" base; when Mamdani pulled it off, the New York Times published Lange's analysis, bringing the coinage to a wider readership.
The administration also announced it is working to finish Astoria's 31st Street bike lane, a project that a judge halted in part because Adams hadn't gotten the required certification from the FDNY and other agencies. "We are beginning the mandatory consultations and will issue the notices needed to restart the project, while also filing a notice of appeal of the court's decision," Flynn said in a statement.
Director Dan Garodnick informed Mayor Zohran Mamdani that he would be stepping down from the role "in the coming weeks," according to an email shared with staff earlier this morning, City Limits first reported. Under Gardonick, the agency passed the first major citywide rezoning since 1961-"City of Yes"-an effort to create more housing in every neighborhood amid a citywide housing shortage that has pushed rents higher.
On the night of Friday, Sept. 12, she had just finished a shift at the McDonald's on Astoria Boulevard and was relaxing in the rear yard of the home on 96th Street at around 9:20 p.m. when she realized Ray had entered the yard. Donovan ran into the home through a rear basement door when Ray caught up to her and allegedly shot her to death.
According to law enforcement sources, the despicable act took place inside the Polo Grounds Towers near 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem on Jan. 7 at around 8 a.m. when an elevator inside the public housing complex became stuck. It is unclear on what floor the incident occurred. Police said the man, unknown to the young victim, entered the broken lift and immediately exposed himself without saying a word.
Straphangers will face service changes across much of the New York City subway system when traversing the five boroughs this weekend, according to the MTA. Only the F, M, Q, 1, and 6 trains, along with the Franklin Av and Rockaway Park Shuttles, are unaffected by changes from late Friday night through early Monday morning. Most other lines will see a slew of reroutes, skipped stops, and express to local switches over the first post-holiday weekend of the year.
Expect a high-end experience through and through: players are doted on by servers who open backgammon sets, offer cocktails and hot towels and ensure every need is met at the custom tables equipped with built-in drawers and adjustable lights peppered throughout the space. Members can also participate in tournaments, sign up for strategy lessons or enjoy prix-fixe dinners from local restaurants.
Where I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we saw this cycle where landlords and bankers and policymakers had driven up the value of real estate using speculative financial capital, the housing market crashed, and then the solution to that was just a different private equity firm coming in and owning the buildings," Weaver, 37, said in a Dissent magazine interview published last winter. "This cycle fueled waves of gentrification in Crown Heights.
One person is being questioned, and two others are on the lam after a violent Times Square stabbing following a botched marijuana sale early on Wednesday morning, police sources said. Law enforcement sources said the bloody attack occurred at around 1:50 a.m. on Jan. 7 at the corner of West 40th Street and 7th Avenue. Cops say three men slashed a 30-year-old man across the face and stabbed him in the back during an argument over the sale of marijuana.
Aherne, who has a prior mental illness history and had been released from the Manhattan Psychiatric Center just hours before the assault, allegedly went on the attack just before 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2025. Prosecutors said Aherne allegedly bought a knife inside the massive department store on West 34th Street and 7th Avenue, then walked into the seventh-floor bathroom where she found a 38-year-old mother changing her baby.
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BROOKLYN, NY - A Brooklyn man accused of randomly attacking a 71-year-old with a shovel after a major snowstorm has been arrested, police said Tuesday. Police arrested 24-year-old Sean Abt on Tuesday in connection with a shovel attack that left a 71-year-old man injured in Gravesend. The assault took place on the evening of Dec. 27 near the intersection of Stryker Court and West First Street.
I've seen many, many videos and many tweets, and also heard from many New Yorkers, as well as experienced this myself, said Hizzoner, who himself is a cyclist.
The FDNY received a call at 3:24 a.m. on Jan. 6 regarding a fire in a three-story private home at 1824 Madison St. and dispatched crews from Engine Company 277 and Ladder Company 112 arrived within three minutes to find heavy fire conditions on the first floor of a brownstone. "We arrived to heavy fire on the first floor that quickly extended to multiple exposures through interior shafts," Chief of Department John Esposito said.
