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NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani seeks $4M from supporters for his City Hall transition, avoiding wealthy donors. Over $1M raised from nearly 13,000 donors so far. Funds will cover resume vetting, team salaries, and inauguration planning, aiming for readiness by January 1.

It was a narrow but significant win for Newark Mayor Ras Baraka two weeks ago, when his preferred candidate, Amina Bey, won a pivotal seat on the city council, giving the three-term mayor a working majority again. Bey captured the Central Ward seat vacated last year when LaMonica McIver was...

At 8:19 a.m., firefighters responded to 18 Telford St. for a fire on the second floor of a four-family structure, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens and Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda Sr. said. Wilbur Pierre was discovered unresponsive in a second floor hallway, authorities said. Pierre was...

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s offer to remain the city’s top cop when he takes office in January.

Montclair has joined a growing chorus of towns formally urging New Jersey to approve a law that would limit state and local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The Immigrant Trust Act would make law a state directive that limits state and local law enforcement’s assistance to federal...

Two brothers sold coffee from a cart on the same block for 30 years -- until a flower planter displaced them. 7 On Your Side helped them out.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city’s current police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has agreed to remain in the post, a major coup for the incoming mayor as he moves to assuage concerns over his past criticisms of the New York Police Department. In a statement,...

Drunk driver Daniel Hyden — a substance abuse counselor, who wrote a book titled The Sober Addict — was convicted of killing four people and injuring several others in New York City, officials say. Prosecutors charged Hyden, 46, was boozed up behind the wheel when his speeding pickup truck crashed through a chain...

Families in New York City are struggling to put food on the table, according to a new report released by the charity Robin Hood.

Police are searching for two female suspects in separate attacks in Manhattan and Brooklyn this month, including one in which a woman was shoved to the ground and another in which a man was punched in the face on a city bus.