New York City's annual Columbus Day Parade marches through Manhattan on Monday, celebrating Italian pride. This year's parade may be impacted by a nor'easter that's bringing high winds and heavy rain Sunday into Monday. But as of now, the festivities are still on. Is Columbus Day a federal holiday? Yes. That means the U.S. Postal Service and most banks are closed. Under normal circumstances, federal workers have the day off with pay, but that may be impacted by the government shutdown.
Starting in January, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will no longer sell MetroCards. While MetroCards will still be accepted after this, the transportation agency will phase them out over the course of next year. With the transition, the MTA said it expects to save at least $20 million annually in costs related to MetroCard production and distribution, vending machine repairs, cash collection and handling.
A pane of glass plummeted more than 400 feet from a Midtown skyscraper, crashing down onto the sidewalk and street below early Sunday morning, city officials said. The 4-foot-by-6-foot pane fell from 1345 Sixth Ave., a 50-story, 2-million-square-foot tower at W. 54th St., around 7 a.m., according to the city's Department of Buildings. No one was injured by the glass, though police blocked off the sidewalk as first responders gathered.
For most New Yorkers, convenience is all we see when we shop online. Click, buy, delivered. But what feels so easy to us is hurting our neighborhoods and the workers in Amazon vests who make it happen. The culprit? Last mile delivery centers, the giant hubs where companies like Amazon sort packages and send them to your doorstep. More and more of these have been popping up in New York.
"He then proceeded to stomp on the victim not once, not twice, but over and over and over again, even while the victim's body was totally limp," Assistant District Attorney Shena Aishnani said last week at the suspect's arraignment. "The victim was completely unconscious and yet the defendant continued to stomp on his body."
The CCRB is an agency established to be independent of the NYPD - and politics -- comprised of civilians, with its own civilian investigative team, to review allegations against police officers. They find allegations either substantiated or unsubstantiated. The PBA cited statistics that saw the CCRB backing hundreds of substantiated recommendations, again pointing to Dr. Khalid in his role as chair.
Residential: The top home sale recorded in New York City was in Carnegie Hill. Brian and Cayla Davis shed a co-op at 1220 Park Avenue for just under $5.5 million, the asking price. The buyers were Willard Boothby, an attorney, and Alice Haven Thompson, an executive recruiter. The 3,200-square-foot, four-bedroom pad went on the market in June with Brown Harris Stevens' Amanda Brainerd and Gerard Ryan. The transaction works out to roughly $1,700 per square foot.
Tolls on major crossings, such as the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, will increase by around 7.5% at the beginning of next year as well. For E-ZPass users, the Verrazzano toll will increase from $6.94 to $7.46. The Staten Island resident discount will remain in place with the toll increase, and anyone enrolled in the program will see their toll bill increase from $3.90 to $4.19.
When students arrive in the morning, I.S. 27 collects the phones for the full school day, even during lunch and free periods. Kids adjusted quickly. One of Sepulveda's students, with no phone for distraction, brought a SpongeBob LEGO Set to use during recess. The activity got the girl and her classmates talking, so much so that they ran out of time to build it that first day.
With less than four weeks until Election Day, Zohran Mamdani maintains a double-digit lead in the race for New York City mayor, but former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is narrowing the gap, according to a new poll. Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from Queens who shocked the political world in June with his convincing win over Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination,
In Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, a steady stream of trucks, cars, buses and ambulances travel along McDonald Avenue every day. Now, neighbors are growing concerned that New York City's plan to redesign the busy four-lane corridor with bike lanes will create new dangers. "We have two hospitals within one mile radius and four elementary schools," said Lisa Sposato, a Windsor Terrace resident. "So congestion and schools and hospitals don't mix very well." Transit officials, however, say their plan is the safer option.
David Mazariegos, 25, was arrested in Times Square and charged with murder, robbery and grand larceny. Mazariegos was arrested 17 times previously, including on a robbery charge, according to NewsNation local affiliate PIX11. Per WABC, Mazariegos told police he beat Tanzi and stomped on his head multiple times because he didn't like the way the victim was looking at him. "@GovKathyHochul has blood on her hands," Department of Transit Secretary Sean Duffy said on X Thursday.
The markings on the former shared path are still the same, however, confusing people into taking the wrong side. And some of the entrances have few or no signs to make clear who should and who shouldn't use them. It's the latest wrinkle after decades of waiting to get a safe crossing for anyone not driving over the 116-year-old bridge - which includes more than 8,500 daily cyclists - after the Adams administration delayed the de Blasio-era project for years.
Then there is FIFA chief Gianni "Johnny Boy" Infantino playing the supplicant, flattering his new fave authoritarian-which has been humiliating to watch, in advance of the 2026 World Cup being hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Every time Johnny Boy fails to say a word about the compromised safety of international travelers or even players-including after the ICE gestapo shot a protesting pastor in the head with a potent "less lethal" weapon.
( JTA) - Perhaps the only local issue to unite Jews and non-Jews, Zionists and anti-Zionists and progressives and conservatives in New York City is a love for the Upper West Side emporium Zabar's. Their remarkable unity was on display this week after Saul Zabar, who led his family's famed grocery store for over seven decades and helped make it a cornerstone of Jewish culture in New York City, died at 97.
Cops received a call from a father who said his adult son had robbed his mother and older brother at gunpoint at a residence around 9:16 p.m. on Van Nest Avenue, Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said in a press conference early Friday morning. After responding to the scene, the father told police he believed his son had fled to a building near Paulding Avenue and East Gun Hill Road - sending police to barricade the residence, Rivera said.
The Center at West Park, a theater and arts organization evicted from the church on July 7, is doing a temporary residency at the St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church, a few blocks away. To demolish the more-than-a-century-old structure, the church must show the New York City Landmarks Commission, which rarely approves such demolitions, that it meets hardship requirements.
On Saturday morning, the friends left their hotel room around 11 a.m. to enjoy an afternoon in the city. Around 5 p.m., the friends made it back to their suite and found an envelope taped to their door. "Upon opening it, I saw that they were going to charge me $500 for smoking in the room," Leicy says. "So I immediately took that down to the front desk and asked to speak to the manager."
The Hands Off NYC campaign backed by the city's largest labor unions and civic groups, including 1199SEIU, 32BJ SEIU, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York Immigration Coalition held a rally at City Hall Park alongside elected officials to unveil what organizers described as a coordinated effort to train residents, build neighborhood communication networks and mount a nonviolent defense if President Donald Trump deploys National Guard troops to the city.
