Weather: ☁️ Rain and fog, with highs in the mid 40s.
It's Wednesday in New York City, where major crimes reported on the subway system rose 17% during the first five weeks of the year, according to NYPD data.
Police said the uptick in crime is likely a result of more people relying on the subway system during the extreme cold. (Total crime above-ground dropped 7.5% during the same period.)
Mayor Mamdani is officially reshaping the city’s Rent Guidelines Board by appointing five new members and reappointing one, positioning the panel to decide whether his signature campaign pledge to “freeze the rent” becomes a reality.
The federal government has disbursed another $77 million in previously frozen funding for the Gateway project, though work has yet to resume on the new set of Hudson River tunnels.
Mayor Mamdani said yesterday that New York City may have to raiseproperty taxes to close a multibillion-dollar deficit if Albany doesn't impose new taxes on the rich or corporations.
Civil rights groups are suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed the official Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument.
Elected officials and activists, surrounded by hundreds of supporters, did raise an unofficialPride flag at the site last week.
The Center for Brooklyn History’s collection of more than 11,000 objects is now being carefully catalogued, photographed and digitized for public access.
An immigration judge yesterday blocked the Trump administration from deportingMohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent U.S. resident who led pro-Palestinian student demonstrations at Columbia University.
Ntondo, the Bronx Zoo's famed blind gorilla, died of an acute cardiac event last weekend at the age of 32.
Political experts said the 1988 presidential run by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week at 84, paved the way for the election of New York City’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, the following year.
In two recent high-profile cases, families explicitly asked 911 for medical help, not police. But both calls were classified under categories — “family dispute” and “involuntary removal” — that automatically triggered armed police responses, according to the NYPD.
