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Because the sticker magnate claimed victory in his upstate district, here are your early links: Seneca Nation of Indians elects its first woman president, Upper West Side loses a McDonald's, fall shoes and more. [ more › ]
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries visited an Election Day event in Washington, D.C. The likely House Speaker has trouble uniting Dems in NYC. Can he do it nationally? [ more › ]
President Trump with Republican candidate for governor Bruce Blakeman. Democrats relentlessly linked their GOP opponents to the Republican president. [ more › ]
The dining room at Manuela These city institutions — including museums, galleries, and auction houses — are hoping customers will find a luxurious meal to be as appealing as the priceless works on the walls. [ more › ]
Republican Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. Rep. Tom Kean, Jr., known for refusing interviews and town halls, sequestered himself with supporters after losing the election. [ more › ]
Republican New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew Smalltown Cape May Mayor Zack Mullock’s likely victory could mark a historic night for Democrats. [ more › ]
People have drinks at an outdoor dining shed in the Manhattan borough of New York on March 6, 2024.
Democrat Rebecca Bennett A newcomer to New Jersey politics, Bennett won in what was once considered a safe Republican district, helping Democrats in their attempt to retake the House of Representatives. [ more › ]
Mayor Mamdani endorsed Claire Valdez, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier for Congress.
Gov. Hochul has prevailed over Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. The Democratic governor won her second full term, easily defeating Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. [ more › ]
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York state's 17th District speaks to supporters as he concedes the race to Cait Conley at the Hilton hotel during a victory party on Nov. 3, 2026 in Pearl River, New York.
The remote day kicked off with a familiar ritual that began in the pandemic: kids struggling to log on. [ more › ]
The numbers highlight the MTA’s continuing post-pandemic recovery as it has campaigned to get people back on the trains after the COVID pandemic. [ more › ]
The hangars at New York City’s first commercial airport haven't been open to the public for nearly 100 years. [ more › ]
Pierce Jordan, vocalist of the band Soul Glo, who will perform in New York this month.
People vote at a polling location on Election Day during the midterm elections in New York City Nov. 3.
It’s the first measles death in the state in 30 years. [ more › ]
Activists protest cuts to SNAP and Medicaid on Nov. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
Roxy Schweky on a FaceTime call with a city inspector who is reviewing a Bronx apartment.
Because the desk salads are too expensive, here are your early links: J.D. Vance campaigns in Rome, New York, President Trump campaigns in front of the Reflecting Pool, New Jersey has four Spirit Christmas stores and more. [ more › ]
New York City Mayor Ed Koch poses with the Muppets on the set of their movie The Muppets Take Manhattan June 1, 1983
Rep. Mike Lawler arrives with his family to vote in his Hudson Valley congressional race.
A block in East Williamsburg where clubs can fit thousands. Needs abound in the Brooklyn neighborhood, an epicenter of community change. [ more › ]
A poll site in Summit, NJ. Nov. 3, 2026 How to get out and vote today. [ more › ]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (C), New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (R), and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stand outside Murphy's Sports Bar, on November 1, 2026 in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
A handgun police say was recovered after NYPD officers shot a man during an exchange of gunfire in the Bronx on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026.
Gusmane Coulibaly was accused of hurling a snowball at officers. Police had arrested Gusmane Coulibaly, 28 — AKA “Diaper Man” — for assault. [ more › ]
Close-up of the NYPD shield and lettering on the door of a police car, New York, New York, September 29, 2026.
Javits Frimpong Police say they're looking at several potential motives in Javits Frimpong's death. [ more › ]
The benefit increased this year due to rising oil and kerosene prices. [ more › ]
A man at a gas station in Weehawken New Jersey March 9, 2022. Prices finally dipped below $4 at some gas stations in New Jersey this past week, but analysts are cautious about all the factors that could send costs back up.
It's flu season Because cases are on the rise in New York, here are your early links: Winter Village in Bryant Park is already open, John Turturro tells cyclists in Prospect Park to chill out, the co-founder of techno music dies and more. [ more › ]
The MTA says this site will be a basketball court in just 30 days. Grand Canal Court has been closed since 2022. [ more › ]
The average white student benefited from about $250 in PTA money over the last school year, more than five times what the average Black student received. [ more › ]
A new report recommends eliminating MTA jobs to save money. The Citizens Budget Commission suggested eliminating one crew member from trains that are fully automated. [ more › ]
A worker clears snow off of a sidewalk after a historic blizzard hit parts of the East Coast, on Feb. 25, 2026 in New York City.
People in costume are seen waving at marathon runners passing by. An estimated 2 million people came out on Sunday to cheer on the marathon runners. Clinton Hill hosted one of the city's most exuberant watch parties. [ more › ]
"Even in the city, some of these meteors will be bright enough that you'll be able to see them." [ more › ]
Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui, center Hellen Obiri, left, and US' Jessica McClain, right, complete in the 2026 New York City Marathon.
Immigrants' rights activists in New York and elsewhere have raised similar claims alleging illegal stops by federal agents. [ more › ]
Javits Frimpong, 15, was killed as he walked to school in the Bronx on Oct. 29, 2026.
P.S. 216 in Jersey City There aren't great options for relieving overcrowding at P.S. 16 in Paulus Hook. It's a consequence of a economic boom — and huge influx of residents. [ more › ]
Prayer candles outside the Patterson Houses in Mott Haven for a vigil for Zion Maine.
Neighborhood navigators approach a group of homeless people at Sara D. Roosevelt Park in August 2024.
Attorney General Letitia James sits in the courtroom during the civil fraud trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump at New York Supreme Court in 2024.
An NYPD car is seen in New York City on July 4, 2024. Police say she was found on a running path in Bath Beach. [ more › ]
Daniel Cho wont' be deterred from his marathon dream After a subway assault dashed Daniel Cho’s marathon ambitions, he’s back to run his race. [ more › ]
NYCHA officials say the white dust lining residents' windows comes from steam that billowed up through exhaust vent for a mobile boiler line.
The family of barn owls on the water tower during happier times. The owls are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. [ more › ]
A dead body was found in Canarsie on Oct. 30, 2026. Police searched East 94th Street on Friday.
Magaly Irizarry The shutdown is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. on Monday and last for nine to 12 days. [ more › ]
300 Ashland Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn The lawsuit targets the leasing practices of the company Two Trees, which recently received a special carveout in the New York state budget. [ more › ]
Democrat Rebecca Bennett campaigning in New Jersey's 7th Congressional district.
Because Harry Styles' Madison Square Garden residency is over in time for the marathon, here are your early links: Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont going for a historic third term, real estate brokers posing in their listing photos, watches on ankles and more. [ more › ]
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem performs in Baltimore in 2007, the year "New York, but You're Bringing Me Down" was released
Mayor Zohran Mamdani talking to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. The mayor's Department of Community Safety may soon become real.
Progressives are following Mayor Mamdani’s lead and voting for Gov. Hochul, a moderate Democrat, on the Working Families Party ballot line. [ more › ]
Coprinellus domesticus is a common home mushroom that moves into leaky city apartments. [ more › ]
Prayer candles outside the Patterson Houses in Mott Haven for a vigil for Zion Maine.
A store displays a sign accepting Electronic Benefits Transfer cards for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchases for groceries.
Roberto Castro-Quinonez of Bakersfield, California was shot by police in Bergen County on Wednesday, according to the New Jersey attorney general's office. [ more › ]
E-bikes parked along East 11th Street and 1st Avenue have been causing a stir in the East Village.
Health bucks can be used at NYC green markets. Residents enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will receive 40% more through the Health Bucks program. [ more › ]
75-year-old Digna Torres, whose apartment was along the affected exterior wall, looks at the white dust lining her windows.
Trahs containers are taking over hundreds of parking spots in some of Brooklyn's most populous neighborhoods.
Mayor Mamdani joined WNYC senior politics reporter Brigid Bergin on the pop-up radio show, "Who's Running This Place?"
An MTA EAGLE team member watches over a row of buses, looking out for anyone trying to score a free ride.
NYPD officers investigate the fatal shooting of a teenager in the Bronx. The teenager was shot once in the abdomen near Crotona Park and pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital, police said. [ more › ]
A guillotine, killer clowns, clownfish: They've got it all on Clinton Place. [ more › ]
Mayor Mamdani joined Gov. Hochul in McCarren Park last weekend. The Democratic governor got a startling lesson four years ago in the importance of turnout in New York City. [ more › ]
Because they're raving about the little cake you can only get in first class on select trains, here are your early links: Hunting for Bigfoot is big in New Jersey, the East Village got a kitschy wedding chapel, "Slime Square-42 St," and more. [ more › ]
At a time of year when traffic deaths rise due to reduced visibility, 30-year-old Siobhan Lynch was struck and killed just after dusk. [ more › ]
An affordable housing construction project in Willets Point, Queens in June 2026.
Ocean Parkway's founding designer Frederick Law Olmsted never imagined a world where cars would take over Ocean Parkway.
The Rose Main Reading Room in the Main Branch of the New York Public Library Also: Books! [ more › ]
A New Jersey State Police vehicle in 2019. A New Jersey state trooper was involved in the incident Wednesday, according to the New Jersey attorney general's office. [ more › ]
A Queens man wheeled his girlfriend’s body in a wagon to the beach at Rockaway Community Park and buried her in a shallow grave, where she remained lay for about five days before police found her.
Linda Tigani, the current chair of the Commission on Racial Equity, is expected to stay on in the role through July 2027. [ more › ]
Anna Mochalova is accused of using a needle-like object to stab two men near the Diamond District earlier this month. [ more › ]
Close-up of an police car, equipped with flashing lights and siren, used as transportation on New York City streets by NYPD.
Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels has defended his performance at the integration town hall, saying it's important to hear all parent voices.
FDNY officials say the lithium ion battery in this e-bike started a Bronx fire that killed an 11-year-old.
The "puppet raising" ahead of the parade. A visit to the community-driven pre-parade puppet preparations. [ more › ]
The crowd at a community board meeting Tuesday night at Anna Silver elementary school, otherwise known as P.S. 20, in the East Village, where plans to renovate Tompkins Square Park were on the agenda.
Throngs of runners and 2.5 million spectators will take to the streets this Sunday. [ more › ]
Because the documentarian interviewed Holmes when he was hired to make a Theranos ad back in 2015, here are your early links: The Knicks finally won, red wine is in, the marathon is hard to get into and more. [ more › ]
Newly arrived asylum seekers wait in a holding area at the Port Authority bus terminal before being sent off to area shelters and hotels on May 15, 2023, in New York City.
A memorial on Third Avenue near NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. Sunset Park residents and street safety advocates have called on city officials to make the avenue safer for years. [ more › ]
Michael Hill of WNYC speaks with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill at Montclair State University Oct. 27.
The George Washington Bridge after the shooting October 20, 2026. The charge against him was upgraded following an “extensive investigation,” the DA’s office said. [ more › ]
Eric Ulrich Phone calls played at during the trial of Eric Adams’ former buildings commissioner show he worried about losing his job for helping business owners fast track inspections. [ more › ]
Corner of Irvington Avenue and Elmwood Place in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Prosecutors say shots were fired at the intersection of Elmwood Place and Irvington Avenue. [ more › ]
Close-up of an police car, equipped with flashing lights and siren, used as transportation on New York City streets by NYPD.
Lots of seats available at the Alamo Drafthouse in Staten Island Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary has been selling out across Manhattan and Brooklyn. Tickets to see the film, however, are very much available in other boroughs. [ more › ]
Central Park Reservoir Because it's dry, here are your early links: McCarren Park teens love the mayor, Long Island castle being auctioned off, an update on the 1 a.m. dining scene and more. [ more › ]
A photo of Pereira distributed by police after she went missing. The city medical examiner ruled Seraphina Pereira’s death a homicide on Monday. [ more › ]
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill A councilmember and immigration activists criticized the governor for not doing more after ICE seemingly admitted to violating a court order. [ more › ]
Gov. Kathy Hochul greets Josh Morgenthau, Owner & Operator of Fishkill Farms, after a roundtable on the state's data center moratorium.
Tourists walks through a Chinatown street filled with posters and advertisements for various bars and restaurants.
Brooklyn Tech is one of three specialized high schools cited in a state law on admissions to the prestigious schools.