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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...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently convened city and state lawmakers for a series of private meetings to let them know he was “highly unlikely” to pursue his threatened property tax increase, according to a report by the New York Times. Five weeks after floating...

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...

Delmonico's is opening in a sprawling space in 1330 Avenues of the Americas in 2027

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...

New York City Police Department will stop issuing criminal summonses for e-bike riders and cyclists for low-level traffic offenses. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani has announced a sweeping set of policies to end criminal enforcement against e-bike riders and cyclists for low-level traffic offenses, expand safety training...

Last week, we reported on the imminent departure of Dinosaur, the colossal aluminum pigeon by Iván Argote that has perched on the High Line’s Spur for the past year and a half. Turns out that a lot of New Yorkers actually treasure the sight of the giant bird while walking around the west side of town and wish for it...

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...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In 1970, Maria Mattarella and her husband, Francesco, moved to New York City from Sicily in pursuit of the American Dream. But they were not planning to stay forever. Their intention was always to return to Italy after a few years. That plan was derailed when their three-year old son,...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Lawyers for Anthony Esposito say he deserves every penny of a $17.5 million settlement the city has agreed to shell out this week, in regard to a 2022 incident in Dongan Hills that cost the former Sanitation worker his leg. Esposito, then 39, sued the...