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Candidate Mamdani Backed Expanding Housing Vouchers. As Mayor, He’s Appealing a Court Order To...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appealed a court ruling that requires the city to expand the hugely popular — but massively expensive — city-funded housing voucher program called CityFHEPS. As a mayoral candidate, Mamdani had promised to implement the expanded voucher program in line with laws the City Council passed...
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FBI New York: Lawyer Charged with Attempted Extortion of Former Client and Client’s Son...

Yesterday, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, a complaint was unsealed charging Joshua Nass, an attorney licensed to practice in New York, with attempted Hobbs Act extortion for enlisting an individual to threaten and force a former client and his son into paying Nass $500,000. Nass was arrested yesterday and...
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Scientists Just Discovered a 20,000-Year-Old Body of Fresh Water Beneath The Ocean Floor That...

New York is already famous for having some of the best tap water in the country, but scientists just confirmed a massive new source in the most unlikely place imaginable. While we usually look toward the Catskills for our water , a groundbreaking new study has revealed a giant reservoir of “freshened” water sitting...
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Sources: Knife-wielding man slashes mother’s caretaker, jumps to his death from senior living facility...

It happened around 12:30 p.m. Monday inside a sixth-floor apartment at the Linden Grove Senior Residences, located at 223 Linden Street.
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Man shot in Concourse Village

News 12 crews observed a crime scene established on Morris Avenue.
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Two teenage girls shot in front of McDonald’s in Coney Island

A 16-year-old girl was shot in the leg, and a 14-year-old girl was shot in the foot, police said.
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After Nearly 200 Years, Steakhouse Delmonico’s is Opening a Second Location

Delmonico's is opening in a sprawling space in 1330 Avenues of the Americas in 2027
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Muslim woman attacked in NYC subway station: ‘Terrorists walking around’

SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A man allegedly rambled about the war in Iran and “terrorists walking around” before attacking a Muslim woman in a Brooklyn subway station, police said. The suspect made the comments while sitting across from the woman on the platform of the southbound D train in the Ninth Avenue...
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Massive Explosion Expected Of World’s Deadliest Creature In New York

Experts warn that a "warm and wet" 2026 summer will trigger a massive explosion of the world's "deadliest" creature in New York.
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We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, March 25, 1911, they could not know that their lives would soon be...

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