Doordash, Uber fail to stop NYC law requiring 10% tip prompt
DoorDash Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. lost a bid to block a New York City law requiring a tipping option be presented to customers at checkout from going into effect Monday.
Nathan’s Famous Sold for $450 Million
Photo: Cititour.com | An iconic slice of New York history is changing hands. Smithfield Foods has agreed to acquire Nathan’s Famous in an all-cash deal valuing the company at approximately $450 mil...
New Localized Storm Snowfall Map: These Tristate Locales Expected To See Highest Accumulations
A brand‑new localized snowfall map from the National Weather Service shows which New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut communities are likely to see the heaviest snow from the major winter storm set to hit Sunday morning, Jan. 25, into Monday, Jan. 26. The Winter Storm Watch has now been...
Contract Collapse: Long Island’s Mount Sinai Physicians Officially Out-of-Network
Caught in the Crossfire: Mount Sinai & Anthem Split Leaves Thousands in Limbo. It’s the kind of letter nobody wants to open. Especially not right after ringing in the new year. For thousands of Long Island residents, 2026 kicked off with a massive headache. Not a hangover. An insurance...
NYC Mom Allegedly Wanted Teen Twins To Stay Babies Forever so She Only Fed...
The New York City Administration for Children’s Services receives calls daily about suspected child abuse and neglect . On October 15, 2025, the agency sent a specialist to a home in the Bronx after receiving multiple concerning phone calls . When they arrived at the residence on Mosholu Avenue in Riverdale, they...
Think Today’s Winter Is Cold? Over 140 Years Ago, the East River Froze Solid...
❄️ The Great Blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a complete standstill, freezing ferries, trains, and even the East River itself. 🚶 With no subway and ferries iced over, New Yorkers famously walked across the frozen East River, paying a two-cent toll to a child with a ladder.
Female stranger beats, chokes straphanger, 49, in NYC subway station as rush-hour tensions flare:...
A female stranger pummeled and choked a 49-year-old woman when tensions flared as they inched past each other inside a Queens subway station during the morning rush last week, cops and sources said. The victim was trying to leave the 30th Avenue N train station in Astoria around 9:45 a.m. Jan. 13 when she got into an...
NYPD sergeant with 18 years on job kills driver in wrong-way, head-on crash on...
An off-duty NYPD sergeant driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway fatally struck another motorist in a head-on Westchester County crash late Thursday, according to police. Sgt. Tiffany Howell, 47 – an 18-year department veteran – was behind the wheel of a 2021 Infiniti heading south in the northbound lanes...
Mamdani drops a tax bomb that could slam the ultra rich
New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani is testing just how far a big, confident city can go in taxing its richest residents. His plan to sharply raise levies on high earners and corporations is not a tweak to the margins, it is a direct challenge to the way New York’s elite have been treated...
Zohran Mamdani says NYC kids can forget about a traditional snow day on Monday...
What a cold call! Mayor Zohran Mamdani is telling New York City kids to forget about a traditional snow day on Monday — no matter how devastating the forecast is. Public school students can at best hope for remote classes for early next week as the city braces for a potentially devastating storm that the mayor has...
