Staten Island woman wins $2M scratch-off prize, elects one-time lump sum payment; here’s how...
A Staten Island woman has claimed a top prize in the New York Lottery’s $2,000,000 Cashword scratch-off game, lottery officials announced. Xiao Lan Zhu opted to receive a one-time lump sum payment totaling $795,919 after required withholdings, according to officials. The winning ticket was purchased at United Grocery...
Landlords push back on COPA bill that gives land trusts first dibs on housing...
The measure known as the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA), would require that properties with three or more units be offered first to community land trusts before hitting the open market.
Northeast set to be blasted by ‘most extreme cold on Earth’ before Christmas
The central to eastern US is set to be blasted with some of the most extreme cold anywhere on Earth just before Christmas, according to a shocking new forecast. From the Midwest to the East Coast temperatures will be about 15 to 20 degrees below the December average beginning in about the third week of the month, MIT...
Texas Man Goes Viral For Handing Out Machetes To Homeless People
Machetes and free liquor? This doesn't sound like the greatest idea.
70 NYCHA workers convicted after corruption sweep
Nearly two years after the largest single-day federal bribery takedown in the Justice Department’s history, federal prosecutors secured a perfect record on convictions. All 70 New York City Housing Authority employees swept up in a corruption sweep were convicted, Gothamist reported. Charges ranged from bribery to...
Free Buses Can Be a Reality — Just Look at Maryland
During the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic downturn, many people couldn’t pay their transportation costs, and often didn’t. In New York City in 2021, some 21 percent of bus riders did not pay the fare, a figure that grew to 48 percent in 2024. Some local governments, including New York City, responded...
NYC teen collecting gifts for those in foster care ‘so no one is forgotten’
FLUSHING, Queens (PIX11) — Do you remember what you were doing when you were 17 and a senior in high school? There’s a young woman who’s busy collecting Christmas presents for those children who wouldn’t have any otherwise. “I’m doing this because I don’t want people forgotten and not getting Christmas presents...
Another New York hero faces jail — though he was never charged in his mugger’s...
“I don’t want to lose any more people to Palm Beach,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said back in June. “We’ve lost enough.” Hochul was talking taxes then, but the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who told pollsters last month they would “definitely” pack up and leave the city if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor have plenty...
NYPD cop ‘accidentally’ maced by another officer as ICE protests erupt across New York
Demonstrators were trying to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from carrying out a raid on nearby Canal Street, which has seen multiple incidents in recent months
Times Square subway burn victim keeps changing his story, police say
A 55-year-old man suffered burns after his pants caught fire on a 3 train as it approached Times Square. What exactly happened, however, is no longer clear.
