It's Tuesday in New York City, where we're living in the golden age of tuna melts.
Elsewhere in the world, “the use of cheese and fish is one of cuisine’s biggest faux pas," says chef Mark Strausman of Mark’s Off Madison.
But this is not elsewhere. This is New York, where classic diners, neo-luncheonettes and even Italian restaurants are serving tuna melts — and making them with different spices, sharper cheeses, throwing potato chips in there and swapping out the tuna for swordfish.
Today's nice, but temperatures will drop and remain well below freezing later this week.
At least 16 people have now died outside in New York City during this recent period of extreme cold, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani said his administration will release police bodycam footage of an NYPD shooting of an allegedly-knife-wielding man in Briarwood, Queens, late last month.
The commission building new train tunnels under the Hudson River has sued the federal government over the Trump administration's move to freeze funds for the work.
New Yorkers with relatives who in some cases are “stuck” in countries including Ghana, Jamaica, Guatemala and Ethiopia have asked a federal judge to halt the Trump administration’s pause on processing visas for nationals from 75 countries.
Con Ed is blaming the city's dumping of salt, which can corrode subsurface cables, for knocking out power for thousands of Brooklyn customers.
Police said a dog named “Meatball" died yesterday after it fell onto the subway tracks at the Bowling Green station and was electrocuted by the third rail.
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Striking nurses are blaming Hochul for effectively prolonging the strike — now in its fourth week — by issuing an executive order that allows hospitals to hire replacement nurses.
The city's sanitation department said it's now "about one day behind on collection," and crews are prioritizing trash and compost pickup over recyclables.
Traffic fatalities in New Jersey are still above pre-COVID levels because the reckless driving habits that took over during the pandemic still haven't gone away, police said.
Steve Tisch, the Giants co-owner and cousin of NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, sent a lot of emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein about women. (Steve Tisch contents they were about "adult women.")
On a recent frigid night at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, no one inside — including homeless people, an NYPD officer and terminal employees — knew two warming buses were parked outside.
Former Mayor Eric Adams and his longtime allies in the NYPD said cameras could start rolling on a behind-the-scenes police reality show before any official contract was in place — and despite opposition by Commissioner Jessica Tisch, according to court records and interviews with current and former police officials.
