New York City

New York City

This past week in New York City, fifteen inches of snow fell and more than twenty-two hundred snowplows pushed it away. Twelve thousand miles of sidewalk were shovelled. Two hundred and nine million pounds of salt were spread, and, after it got really bad, two hundred thousand gallons of calcium chloride, a chemical ice melt, were deployed. Sometimes the work you do leaves its mark; sometimes it doesn't.

Free groceries, courtesy of your favorite prediction market. That's the stunt that both Kalshi and Polymarket are attempting to pull off in New York City, in an apparent nod to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pledge to open city-run grocery stores. Kalshi's offering arrived first, offering shoppers up to $50 worth of free groceries at Westside Market, a grocery store in Manhattan's East Village on Tuesday. Business Insider attended the event and found a long line.

In what was once an establishment reverberating the motto "peace, love, and burritos," chaos erupted when Grullon entered the restaurant near Flatbush Avenue and St. Mark's Place at around 3:30 p.m., as captured by the eatery's surveillance video and obtained by CBS News New York. Witnesses described her using racial slurs and then turning violent, striking the older diner with the bottle, which resulted in a head injury requiring staples.

Mr. Karp attended two group dinners in New York City and had a small number of social interactions by email, all of which he regrets.

Criminal Court Judge John Walsh dismissed most of the roughly three-dozen summonses he heard on Monday, either due to insufficient details or errors in the NYPD-issued tickets or simply as a warning, also known as an "adjournment in contemplation of dismissal." Only a few cyclists were actually forced to pay a fine, albeit for pleading down their original criminal summonses to disorderly conduct, a violation.

You'd be excused for not noticing Hue House while walking down a midtown Manhattan street. After all, as ambitious as the idea behind this new four-story cultural club showcasing Asian culture may be, the building itself is fairly nondescript, tucked into 56 East 41st Street near Madison Avenue. Step inside, though, and it becomes immediately clear just how much thought has gone into the project.

As of Monday, Feb. 2, Code Blue procedures remain in effect for New York City due to extreme cold temperatures. Public warming facilities with food, as well as warming buses, are in operation in every borough, and listed here. The city is also relaxing homeless shelter intake rules during the weather emergency; find a list of intake and drop-in center locations here. If you see someone outdoors in need of assistance, call 311.

It was costing the administration around half a million dollars. That, in and of itself, is not something that can bridge this kind of a gap, but it's an indication of the ways in which money has been spent while refusing to account for the actual costs of what these programs are.

According to the transit advocacy organization, the Transit Costs Project, a $40-billion, 40-year effort would add 41 miles of new subway lines and 64 new stations, resulting in 40,000 units of affordable housing and tens of thousands of more units of market-rate housing without even a single change to the current zoning regulations around the stations.

CROWN HEIGHTS - CITY OFFICIALS were warned weeks before a car-ramming attack at a Crown Heights synagogue that security bollards and other hardening measures were needed - infrastructure New York City had already begun installing years earlier under former Mayor Bill de Blasio. A Dec. 30, 2025, report from the Mayor's Office for Combating Antisemitism, issued just before Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office, flagged the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters as a high-risk site and recommended bollards and related protections.

The Friday night dance party is geared toward older kids and teens and takes place at the David Rubenstein Atrium at 7:30 pm. It's a DJ-led dance party with music by DJ Gia Fu, set in a loud, high-energy, standing-room environment, and is best suited for teens who enjoy music and dancing. If you have younger children with early bedtimes, skip this and save your energy for Sunday.

The new year of 2026 saw the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest murders, shootings, and shooting victims in recorded NYC history, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Monday. Photo by Dean Moses The new year of 2026 saw the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest murders, shootings, and shooting victims in recorded NYC history, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Monday.

BROOKLYN, NY - An NYPD recruit is facing multiple criminal charges after being arrested in Brooklyn late Sunday afternoon, police said. Eray Celiksoy, 21, was arrested Sunday around 7:40 p.m. in Brooklyn's 61st Precinct, which covers the southern part of the borough, including Kings Bay, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach, according to the NYPD. Police shared few details about the incident that led to Celiksoy's arrest but said he has been charged with robbery, strangulation, and assault

It was frigid on Thursday when the Shoofly - a 64-foot 1941 tugboat forged with American steel - set out along the Newtown Creek to carve up the ice sheets blocking barges from getting through. The ice parted soundlessly before the 78-ton vessel as it made its way past the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects industrial stretches of Brooklyn and Queens, through a stretch of creek that isn't as busy as its mouth near the East River.

The NYPD is investigating after a man was found dead aboard a Manhattan train on Sunday. According to police sources, cops from Transit District 4 were conducting an inspection of a northbound Q train just after midnight on Feb. 1, after it had pulled into the end of the line on East 96 Street and Second Avenue subway station, when they discovered a 34-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive.

NYPD When New Yorkers sign up to become police officers, one of the most common reasons for taking the oath is a desire to help people and save lives. NYPD Officer Freddy Cerpa can say he has achieved that goal twice over, all in a matter of weeks. Cerpa is not being hailed as a hero because he had to draw his service weapon and fight off danger, but instead because of the way he remained calm during a life-or-death situation and saved the lives of two babies.

A fatal collision occurred in Fort Greene Brooklyn, claiming the life of a 65-year-old e-bike rider, according to reports from the NYPD and local news. The incident, involving an FDNY ambulance and the cyclist, happened just past the stroke of 1 a.m. at the intersection of Ashland Place and Willoughby Street. PIX11 News stated that the e-bike was moving southbound when it met with the northbound ambulance.

Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old electrical engineer living on 14th Street, got on a downtown 2 train. A couple of years earlier, he'd been mugged, and he'd subsequently gotten himself an unlicensed pistol, which he carried, concealed, that day on the subway. Four teenagers were in the same car, headed to a video arcade to jimmy open the coin boxes, which is why two of them had screwdrivers zippered up in their coat pockets. They were, witnesses said, rowdy, aggressive, intrusive.

Reps from real estate titan Two Trees Management - which opened the $50 million public park in 2018 as part of its mixed-use rental project in Williamsburg paying tribute to the old Domino Sugar Plant that once operated there - fired off letters Friday to federal, state, and city agencies urging they investigate the Oct. 17 incident involving the Sir Winston vessel.

Queens detectives are investigating the death of a man with body trauma found inside an apartment building on Friday afternoon. The grim discovery occurred inside 20-50 Nameoke Ave. in Far Rockaway just before 2:40 p.m. on Jan. 30, police reported. Officers from the 101st Precinct responded to the location after receiving a 911 call about an unconscious man inside the premises.

Mayor Mamdani swept into Gracie Mansion on the promise of ending widespread corruption around policing and street safety. He can do both by laser-focusing his efforts on eliminating the prevalent abuse and forgery of parking placards. Mamdani has a rare chance to permanently halt this dangerous and criminal practice, and, in doing so, radically alter the balance of power in New York City. For the past decade, under the handle @placardabuse, we've documented how a large contingent of car drivers misuse their parking privileges -

First, I want to thank the thousands of city workers who have gone above and beyond to lift snow off of our streets and to look after those most at risk in a moment like this, and yet we know that there is clearly so much more to be done as we maintain our efforts to clear crosswalks and bus stops to melt snow, and above all, to protect New Yorkers who are most at risk from this historic and dangerous cold,

Former consort braved the newly reincarnated Absolute Bagels & bailed when he found 45 people in line, in the cold. One of our oldest friends, who retreated to the Bay Area long ago, always used to say: "The more New Yorkers get fucked, the more they like it." Now with more Instagram...

RED HOOK - A SPECIAL EXHIBITION - "Brooklyn Marine Terminal: Past, Present, & What's Next for Red Hook?" - will hold its opening Friday night from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Compere Collective, 351 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook. The display, hosted by Resilient Red Hook in collaboration with Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, features student work that explores alternative visions for the BMT, bringing academic insight, community priorities and design innovation together.