3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1005+ words) NEW YORK — Karen Matthews was getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for preschool in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 11, 2001, when she heard a loud boom, unlike anything she’d ever heard before. Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (633+ words) The sibling owners of an Ozone Park pizzeria charged with bribing a top aide to ex-Mayor Eric Adams pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy charges Wednesday, the first guilty pleas in a case that kicked off a damning series of corruption…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1084+ words) Fourteen months after Donald Trump signed the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill to provide billions in tax cuts while seeking to reduce the cost of programs like SNAP food aid and Medicaid, the South Asian Council for Social Services in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (963+ words) HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. — U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler is considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable Republicans in this year’s midterm elections. It was the same story in his last campaign, too. But in a political era where both parties are drifting further…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (499+ words) A woman randomly stabbed two people in New York City’s Times Square on Monday, killing one woman, and then was fatally shot by police, according to officials. The shooting happened just before 4:30 p.m. next to a New York Police Department…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (391+ words) NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art is canceling its planned exhibit honoring British designer John Galliano, which had led to severe backlash in the Jewish community and beyond because of the designer’s past antisemitic and racist statements. The museum…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (249+ words) NEW YORK — Hundreds of people gathered near New York City’s popular Washington Square Park Sunday to judge a Mayor Zohran Mamdani look-alike contest. The winner, Amadeo Fusca, was the crowd favorite, wearing a jersey for the NBA champion New York…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (320+ words) BOROUGHWIDE — The future leadership of the Brooklyn Democratic Party has been the site of a power battle between the existing executive committee and members of an opposition group that have recently included more elected district leaders. Current county leader Rodneyse…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (620+ words) DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — On Thursday, Aug. 20, in federal court in Brooklyn, Angela Aquino, a 2025 candidate for New York City Public Advocate, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with her scheme to defraud New York City’s campaign finance system to obtain…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (622+ words) A coalition seeking to overhaul the Brooklyn Democratic Party is “very likely” to file a lawsuit challenging the party chair’s eleventh-hour effort to upend an upcoming leadership vote. On Wednesday evening, the chair of the party, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn,…...