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Nikole Hannah-Jones says she now regrets aspects of an educational choice intended to challenge inequality in New York City schools. *Nikole Hannah-Jones is facing criticism after revealing the consequences of deliberately sending her daughter to struggling, predominantly Black public schools in Brooklyn. The New York

New York City became a meeting place for mayors from around the world this weekend as Mayor Zohran Mamdani welcomed city leaders for the 2026 Urban 20 (U20) Mayors Summit, a three-day gathering focused on housing, climate change and migration. New York and Los Angeles are co-chairing this year’s U20,...

The fire was under control in less than an hour, but the FDNY says one person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

An out-of-control MMA fighter was hit with assault charges for allegedly beating up a 22-year-old woman inside a Lower Manhattan apartment building, police said. Renfro Solomon, 29, nicknamed “The Black Dragon,” was arrested after cops responded to a 911 call at 47 Madison St. in Chinatown around 5:55 a.m. Sunday and f

A New York man was jailed after Pennsylvania State Police alleged he attempted to use counterfeit cash during a transaction at a Dollar General in Schuylkill County. Omar Christopher Bolgrove, 27, of Jamaica, New York, is charged with felony forgery—uttering forged writing, along with misdemeanor counts of theft by dec

Zohran Mamdani's Columbus Day Parade invitation sparks fury among Italian Americans over his 2020 post flipping off a Christopher Columbus statue.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A Brooklyn woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death while he was beating her in her apartment on Saturday morning, authorities said. Jennifer Ayala, 36, allegedly stabbed 36-year-old Pedersin Pelissier in the chest in her East Flatbush apartment at around 6:50 a.m., according to the

A Secaucus mother was arrested last week for allegedly striking her elementary school-aged child, Police Chief Dennis Miller announced. On Wednesday, September 16th at approximately 2:46 p.m., Secaucus police officer responded to Huber Street School, 1520 Paterson Plank Road, on a report of a juvenile who showed signs

Operation SNAP Back, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s retailer-enforcement campaign, has produced nearly 6,000 food-stamp retailer disqualifications or suspensions and the removal of more than 2,000 illegal point-of-sale devices tied to benefit trafficking, the agency disclosed this week. The tally followed a targe

The city should aggressively redesign the streets of Downtown Brooklyn to prioritize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders and maximize the neighborhood’s strengths as a mixed-use transit hub, according to a recent analysis commissioned by Council Member Lincoln Restler. Twenty-two years after a landmark rezoning of the