New York City

New York City

The calendar year may be winding down, but luckily, such is not the case for New York City's bar and restaurant scene. As anyone who lives here can tell you, December is never quiet: just walk by Rockefeller Center or Bryant Park if you don't believe us. But tourist hordes and giant Christmas trees aside, this last month of the year is quite literally festive, which means dining and drinking out right now takes on an extra glittery and magical sheen.

State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez wants Manhattan to be safer. To get there, the city and state governments must understand traffic violence as a fundamental threat to public safety, she argues in a 14-page plan published today. The document, called the "Manhattan Community Safety Plan," focuses on the overall safety of the borough, with sections devoted to behavioral health, housing access, and firearm policy. The first section zeroes in on street safety, and calls for the passage of several relevant bills pending in Albany and City Hall:

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The New York State Gaming Commission will hold a Monday meeting that is expected to finalize the approval for all three full-scale NYC casino sites. The meeting will take place at the Robert F. Smith Center for the Performing Arts at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park in Manhattan. It will also be livestreamed. State officials said on the agenda will be the consideration of gaming facilities licensing for the locations that were approved by its Location Board on Dec. 1.

Six teenagers were wounded in a mass shooting at a Brooklyn "Sweet 16" birthday bash early Sunday morning - with a pair of gunmen still on the loose, according to police. Cops responded to Burbuja Events catering hall at 2929 Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills on a 911 call shortly after 1:15 a.m., where they found the victims with gunshot wounds, police said.

Six teenagers were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning outside a party venue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, according to police. Officers responded at approximately 1:15 a.m. to a 911 call reporting multiple people shot outside 2929 Atlantic Ave., an NYPD spokesperson said. When police officers arrived, they found six victims ranging in age from 15 to 17. A 15-year-old girl was shot in the chest, hip and leg, while another 15-year-old girl was shot in the right leg.

The 39-year-old victim was stabbed in one of the store's bathrooms while she was changing her 10-month-old daughter's diaper, according to police. When officers responded to a 911 call at around 3 p.m., they found the woman with multiple stab wounds to her back and a laceration on her arm, the Globe reported. The victim's husband was standing outside the bathroom and waiting for her with their other two children, police told CBS News.

A veteran of three MLB seasons, the bulk of Duarte's 38 1/3 career innings came as a member of the Reds bullpen in 2023, when he tossed 31 2/3 frames across 31 games. Duarte has a respectable 3.99 ERA across his limited time in the Show, though with only a 17% strikeout rate and a troublingly comparable 14.5% walk rate.

Founded by Jimmy Glenn, a former boxer turned trainer, in 1971, Jimmy's Corner has stood, defiantly unchanged, as Times Square has boomed around it. The neighborhood bar, a New York City institution which attracts locals and tourists alike, has had the same pictures on the walls for decades some of the bar's regulars have been coming almost as long kept the same furniture, and maintained remarkably low pricing.

The impact of these projects, once completed, is obvious to riders. Replacing our existing 100-year-old signals with modern equipment means less time spent praying your train starts moving again soon while sitting in tunnels or delayed in stations. Meanwhile the additional ADA stations are yet more proof that this MTA is addressing the needs of economically-challenged populations in our City: seniors, parents with young children, and of course, people with disabilities.

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The suspect accused of stabbing a woman as she changed her child's diaper inside Macy's flagship Herald Square store on Thursday had been discharged from a local mental health hospital just hours before the violent attack, prosecutors said Friday. Kerri Aherne, 24, formerly of Tewksbury, MA, is now locked up in jail after being arraigned in New York Criminal Court on Friday night.

Yes, it's a fight over a backpack - how it was seized, how it was searched, and whether the gun and notebook found inside will be tossed or kept as knockout-blow evidence in a future murder trial. But Luigi Mangione's ongoing evidence suppression hearing, playing out for two weeks in a Manhattan courtroom, is more than that. The serious legal battle features an often amusing undercard bout: repeatedsparring over nothing more than the naming of things.

The redesign proposed by the Department of Transportation would have alleviated conditions that led to a galling 178 injuries between 2020-2024, making the street in the top 10 percent of most dangerous in the area. The plan provided for daylighting corners - a treatment that increases visibility in the crosswalk - as well as painted pedestrian islands (I would have preferred cement, but anything is better than what we have now). Travel lanes would have been narrowed, which is an effective way to lower speeds.

Outgoing City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will not bring a measure to implement universal daylighting, which would eliminate parking near intersections to make them safer, to a vote before the end of the body's current session. Her decision drew a sharp rebuke from safe streets advocates on Thursday who say the bill's passage is essential toward increasing street safety for pedestrians and drivers alike.

A Port Authority bus slammed into a building in Midtown during the Thursday evening rush hour, amNewYork has learned. The bus crashed into scaffolding and appears to have made contact with a building on Lexington Avenue and 41st Street. The incident occurred at approximately 4:15 p.m. on Dec. 11, just before sunset. So far, sources close to the incident have reported that one person appears to be injured.

Detectives in Brooklyn are questioning a man who allegedly slashed a commuter in the face on board a subway train Thursday morning following an argument, police reported. The incident happened on a Manhattan-bound A train as it rolled into the Nostrand Avenue station at about 11:40 a.m. on Dec. 11. According to police sources, a 51-year-old man was sitting inside a train car when a 19-year-old man took the seat next to him.

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Law enforcement sources the bloody incident unfolded at 2:25 p.m. on Dec. 9 on board a Bx38 MTA bus approaching Bartow and Gunther Avenues in Baychester. Sources familiar with the case said the two suspects approached the 15-year-old boy and began arguing with him because they didn't like the way he was looking at them. Seconds later, cops said, one of the attackers punched and kicked the boy, and the other perpetrator stabbed him in the chest multiple times with a sharp object.