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Zohran Mamdani’s decision to end the Eric Adams administration’s controversial homeless encampment sweeps will cause a “quality of life nightmare” for New Yorkers, the outgoing mayor and other critics railed Friday. Adams urged residents to speak up about the upcoming policy change and call on the mayor-elect to stay...

Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani is preparing to usher in one of the most significant reversals in New York City’s homelessness strategy in more than a decade, announcing that his administration will end the clearing of homeless encampments across the city once he takes office. The move directly dismantles a defining...

Zohran Mamdani campaigns for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) This article was originally published on The Conversation. New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, campaigned on a promise to raise the city’s income tax on its richest residents...

The New York City Council is delivering a not-so-happy holiday message to many of its former staffers. The council’s Personnel Services division sent letters to dozens of former employees of the legislative body over the past month notifying them that they were sent an erroneous payment more than a year ago, and...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani held a wide-ranging press conference Thursday in Manhattan, reiterating key campaign promises and responding to recent controversies involving policing, immigration enforcement and remarks made by a relative of his chosen police commissioner. Before speaking with...

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was brutally executed on a Manhattan street one year ago Thursday — and a former colleague is lamenting how the notoriety of accused killer Luigi Mangione has far eclipsed the victim in the tragedy. “It was the Luigi show,” said Terrie Martin, an independent Medicare broker in...

Police arrested 19-year-old Justin Aguilera in connection with what authorities describe as a violent street takeover last month.

An NYPD officer recently violated the city’s sanctuary city law and gaps in the department’s policies leave it vulnerable to similar violations in the future, a new report from the New York City Department of Investigation found. Following demands from the City Council, DOI released their findings on...

An 18-year-old is under arrest for allegedly setting a homeless man on fire on a subway train in Midtown.

A 23-year-old Hoboken man has been arrested for three overnight purse snatching within one hour last month, Police Chief Steven Aguiar announced. On November 7th at approximately 11:50 p.m., Hoboken police responded to the 50 block of Garden Street, where a victim reported her purse had been stolen after she dropped...