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  1. October 14, 2026 East Village DOT finished the Avenue B redesign, making the open street northbound-only from East 7th to East 10th with a two-way bike lane alongside Tompkins Square Park.
  2. October 14, 2026 SoHo South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster will take 28,500 square feet of REI's former space in the Puck Building, with Torrisi expanding into the rest.
  3. October 14, 2026 Midtown Alexis Lafrenière scored twice as the Rangers beat Tampa Bay 4-1 for their fifth straight home win, with Dylan Garand making 25 saves.
  4. October 14, 2026 The only governor's debate — *Gov. Kathy Hochul and Bruce Blakeman met once on NY1, three weeks before Election Day, with Hochul up 53% to 42% in the latest Marist poll.* Top story
  5. October 14, 2026 The Port Authority Bus Terminal rebuild starts squeezing commuters — *Starting Thursday, buses leaving the Lincoln Tunnel loop onto West 39th Street to reach the terminal while crews tear out the old ramps.* Top story
  6. October 13, 2026 Upper East Side Former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack listed his 165 East 70th Street carriage house for $80 million, which would beat the city's $77.1 million townhouse record.
  7. October 12, 2026 Hamilton Heights Police and fire crews searched the sewers after at least three men went down a manhole at West 141st Street and Hamilton Place; the NYPD says these divers usually hunt for valuables and scrap metal after storms.
  8. October 12, 2026 East Harlem A Jewish activist filed a complaint asking the DOE to investigate Heritage School teacher Mia Kurzer over her presence at protesters' disruption of an Oct. 7 vigil in Union Square; she had no comment.
  9. October 12, 2026 Midtown The Rangers beat Vancouver 6-2 in Dylan Garand's first game as starter since Igor Shesterkin's season ended, with two goals each from Tye Kartye and Will Cuylle.
  10. October 11, 2026 Midtown Hedge fund Castle Hook will pay up to $21.2 million a year for a 53,000-square-foot penthouse at 625 Madison, a record $350 to $400 per square foot.
  11. October 11, 2026 Lower East Side Rat sightings are up 38% this year, which Sanitation pins on three problem blocks.
  12. October 11, 2026 The ICE shooting in Marble Hill — *An ICE agent shot Oscar Belgal, 28, in the neck on Marble Hill Avenue on Thursday with his 5-year-old son in the back seat; police recovered seven shell casings.* Top story
  13. October 11, 2026 Shesterkin is done for the season — *The Rangers confirmed Igor Shesterkin's season is over after he went down Friday in Washington, handing the net to 24-year-old Dylan Garand.* Top story
  14. October 11, 2026 The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens its 90th season — *The rink opened Saturday at 9 a.m. for its 90th season, with tickets starting at $22 per person.* Top story
  15. October 10, 2026 Midtown Congress left town without acting on Sean Duffy's $1 billion Penn Station request, so the rebuild's money waits on the midterms.
  16. October 10, 2026 Midtown Saint Laurent will move into about 9,600 square feet at Kering's 717 Fifth Avenue, across East 56th Street from Trump Tower.
  17. October 10, 2026 Upper East Side Five people climbed out of a manhole on East 82nd Street at 2 a.m., the seventh sewer sighting since May; police think treasure hunters are chasing valuables washed into storm drains.
  18. October 10, 2026 ICE shoots a man in Marble Hill with his son in the back seat — *An ICE agent fired seven rounds into Oscar Belgal's SUV on Marble Hill Avenue with his 5-year-old son inside; Belgal survived and is now held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.* Top story
  19. October 10, 2026 Manhattan's median rent hits a record $5,395 — *Manhattan's median market-rate rent climbed to $5,395 in September, up 9 percent in a year, with vacancy stuck near 1.5 percent for a fifth straight month.* Top story
  20. October 10, 2026 The Q could keep digging west under 125th Street — *The MTA opened public comment through Nov. 13 on reusing its Second Avenue Subway tunnel machines to bore west under 125th Street to Broadway, a $7.55 billion line for 240,000 daily riders.* Top story
  21. October 9, 2026 Midtown MTA chair Janno Lieber accused Amtrak's Penn Station chief Andy Byford of going "full MAGA"; Byford says he'll "leave the name calling to others."
  22. October 9, 2026 Hudson Square Clarkson Street outside City-As-School got the city's first permanent swing gates for a car-free School Street, replacing barricades someone had to drag out daily.
  23. October 9, 2026 Manhattan rents stall near the record — *Median rent on new Manhattan leases held at $4,900 in September, the second-highest on record, with listings down for a 15th straight month.* Top story
  24. October 8, 2026 Central Park Three people have died in crashes on the car-free loop since June, the latest a 71-year-old cyclist dodging an off-leash dog on East Drive at 84th Street.
  25. October 8, 2026 Kips Bay Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says he won't approve any rezoning of the AMC 15 site on Second Avenue unless it keeps a cinema; NYU Langone has it under contract for clinical space.
  26. October 8, 2026 Midtown An activist fund bought 5.8 percent of Empire State Realty Trust and wants it to weigh selling buildings; observatory visits fell 28.5 percent year over year in the spring.
  27. October 8, 2026 Garden The champion Knicks play their first home game since June tonight, a preseason date with Trae Young, Anthony Davis and No. 1 pick AJ Dybantsa's Wizards.
  28. October 8, 2026 The Rays sweep the Yankees out of October — *Victor Mesa Jr.'s two-run homer off Max Fried in the sixth beat the Yankees 4-3 in the Bronx and finished a three-game sweep.* Top story
  29. October 8, 2026 Tishman Speyer takes back the Chrysler Building — *Tishman Speyer signed a 150-year ground lease with Cooper Union and pledged $235 million to fix a tower that tenants say has had mice and broken elevators.* Top story
  30. October 7, 2026 Hudson Square Clarkson Street between Varick and Hudson became the city's first permanent School Street, with swing gates closing it to cars from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on school days.
  31. October 7, 2026 Financial District The landmarked American Bank Note Company Building at 70 Broad Street sold for $9.35 million after once asking $88 million.
  32. October 6, 2026 Central Park A 71-year-old cyclist died after hitting an off-leash dog on East Drive near 84th Street, where dogs must be leashed at all hours.
  33. October 6, 2026 Fort Washington Park Miguel Francisco Mora Nuñez got 15 years in federal prison for shooting an off-duty CBP officer during a robbery under the George Washington Bridge.
  34. October 6, 2026 Harlem Central Harlem leaders asked MTA chief Janno Lieber for a real say if the Q extends west along 125th Street to Broadway.
  35. October 6, 2026 Meatpacking Whitney Museum workers ratified a contract the night before their strike, winning a $26 hourly floor for visitor-facing staff.
  36. October 5, 2026 Tribeca Council Member Chris Marte and Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal want Mayor Mamdani to put a bike lane on Chambers Street.
  37. October 5, 2026 Midtown DRA Advisors bought 49% of 1301 Avenue of the Americas, the fully leased 45-story tower valued at $1.3 billion.
  38. October 5, 2026 Garment District Casoni, the 81-story, 785-foot tower at Sixth Avenue and West 37th Street, is set to finish by year's end with 311 rentals and condos.
  39. October 5, 2026 Flatiron Maison Estelle, a British members-only club, is taking the 30,000-square-foot former Limelight church at 656 Avenue of the Americas.
  40. October 5, 2026 Garden The Rangers beat Utah 4-2 for a third straight win, with J.T. Miller scoring his first goal of the season.
  41. October 5, 2026 Deonte Banks's 98-yard pick-six puts the Giants first in the NFC East — *Four plays after a pass-interference call gave Arizona the ball at the 4, Deonte Banks intercepted the last pass of the game and ran it back 98 yards for a 36-24 Giants win.* Top story
  42. October 4, 2026 Upper East Side The tower at First Avenue and East 77th Street is two-thirds framed and should top out by year's end, with 18 of its 89 rentals rent-stabilized for households at 80 percent of area median income.
  43. October 3, 2026 The median co-op and condo sale held at a record $1.25 million in the third quarter as new-development listings fell nearly 40%.
  44. October 3, 2026 Kips Bay A Board of Correction report found officers played chess and slept while Christopher Rodriguez died at the new $241 million Bellevue outpost for Rikers detainees.
  45. October 2, 2026 Inwood Restaurant owners and uptown officials want cars back on Quisqueya Plaza on Dyckman Street, the car-free block they championed in 2021.
  46. October 2, 2026 Central Park A judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation for the man charged with beating Elise Hill, 63, to death in the Ramble.
  47. October 1, 2026 Upper West Side Jake's Dilemma on Amsterdam Avenue closes in October after 32 years, one of at least five longtime neighborhood businesses to go.
  48. October 1, 2026 Upper West Side The YMCA is pulling out of after-school programs at two middle schools less than a month in, and Manhattan Youth returns Oct. 19.
  49. September 30, 2026 Central Park Steamfitter Richard O'Brien, 41, died after a cyclist hit him on East Drive near 84th Street; police have not decided on charges.
  50. September 30, 2026 Central Park Francis Lee Rogers, 63, who painted the Ramble's birds for decades, was found beaten and stabbed in the gazebo where she slept.
  51. September 29, 2026 Central Park Francis Lee Rogers, 63, who lived in the Ramble and kept its bird feeders filled, was found dead in the Summerhouse; Jonathan Robles, 36, is charged with murder.
  52. September 29, 2026 Financial District A permanent Jobs NYC walk-in center opens Oct. 5 at 2 Lafayette St., with the city carrying 14,391 vacant positions.
  53. September 29, 2026 Financial District The 100 Gold St. plan near the Brooklyn Bridge grew to 4,000 homes, a quarter permanently affordable, with a public hearing coming in October.
  54. September 29, 2026 Midtown Manhattan Plaza Health Club closes its 34-year-old climbing wall on West 43rd Street Wednesday.
  55. September 29, 2026 Meatpacking Whitney Museum workers set an Oct. 5 strike date ahead of the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective, asking for roughly $71,000 base pay.
  56. September 28, 2026 Battery Park City The $221 million South Battery Park City flood wall is done, and the Battery Bikeway reopened Sept. 24, closing a gap in the 31-mile loop around Manhattan.
  57. September 28, 2026 Central Park Richie O'Brien, 41, the pedestrian struck by a cyclist in the park, has died.
  58. September 28, 2026 Midtown Jalen Brunson opened SNL's 52nd season with Hart, Towns, Anunoby and Bridges in the audience, and promised the first three quarters of the show would be "god-awful".
  59. September 27, 2026 Lincoln Center Israel supporters protested in the storm outside the New York Film Festival's North American premiere of "NAZA," a Gaza war documentary built on 24 anonymous Israeli military sources.
  60. September 27, 2026 East Harlem An MTA track worker found the body of a man, dead at least a few days, in a utility closet on the 6 line north of 125th Street; police do not suspect a crime.
  61. September 27, 2026 Manhattan runs short of new condos — *Manhattan ended August with 2,800 units of new-development inventory, its lowest total in 12 years.* Top story
  62. September 26, 2026 Upper East Side Two Queens men who came out of a Park Avenue manhole told police they were hunting for valuables washed into the sewers; they pleaded not guilty to trespassing and return to court Nov. 25.
  63. September 26, 2026 Upper West Side Café des Artistes will reopen at 1 W. 67th St. in early 2027 under the Roscioli and Tokyo Record Bar team, with Howard Chandler Christy's wood-nymph murals still on the walls.
  64. September 26, 2026 Midtown The Book of Mormon played its 5,759th performance Friday, passing Mamma Mia! to become Broadway's ninth-longest-running show.
  65. September 25, 2026 Financial District Public review began on 100 Gold Street, three towers with about 4,000 homes, roughly 1,000 permanently affordable, with ULURP expected in 2027.
  66. September 25, 2026 Kips Bay The Council put $25.6 million into Bellevue to add 40 psychiatric beds at a hospital running about 98% full.
  67. September 25, 2026 Midtown An appeals court stayed Bryant Park Grill's eviction, so the restaurant stays open until at least a February hearing.
  68. September 24, 2026 Kips Bay Bellevue gets $25.6 million from the Council to add 40 adult psychiatric beds, for 204 total, in units running at 98% occupancy.
  69. September 24, 2026 Financial District The city now plans 4,000 apartments at 100 Gold Street, up from 3,700, with a scoping hearing next month.
  70. September 24, 2026 Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley in 2006.
  71. September 23, 2026 Financial District The 100 Gold Street office-to-housing plan grew to 4,000 apartments, 1,000 of them permanently affordable.
  72. September 23, 2026 Civic Center Murry Bergtraum, once 3,000 students, has about 90 and spends more than $46,000 per student, Chalkbeat found.
  73. September 23, 2026 Upper East Side Happier Grocery leased the long-empty City Cinemas space at 210 East 86th Street for its second store.
  74. September 23, 2026 East Village Cookbook seller Bonnie Slotnick was arrested after a clash with a Harry Styles pop-up staffer over the line outside her shop.
  75. September 22, 2026 Midtown The updated Park Avenue plan cuts it to two northbound lanes and one southbound, turning a lane into a two-way protected bike lane.
  76. September 22, 2026 Midtown East A gridlock alert runs through Friday as the U.N. General Assembly brings rolling closures near First Avenue and parts of the FDR.
  77. September 22, 2026 The truck that killed Daria Serkov had a safety waiver — *The excavation truck whose driver killed 15-year-old Daria Serkov on a Citi Bike at 14th Street and First Avenue held a city exemption from the side-guard rule, and about half of trade waste trucks do too.* Top story
  78. September 21, 2026 East Village Daria Serkov, 15, was killed Friday riding a Citi Bike with a friend when a 57-year-old garbage truck driver turning onto First Avenue hit them in the crosswalk; he was questioned and not arrested.
  79. September 21, 2026 Kips Bay Neighbors are fighting NYU Langone's plan to buy the AMC Kips Bay 15 building on First Avenue, which also houses a bank and a grocery store.
  80. September 21, 2026 Midtown East SL Green's $805 million conversion of 750 Third Avenue into 639 rentals, a quarter affordable under the 467-m tax break, is due in late 2029.
  81. September 21, 2026 Chelsea The former Bayview Correctional Facility on West 20th Street broke ground as Chelsea Beacon, up to 131 permanently affordable apartments with at least 79 for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers.
  82. September 21, 2026 Upper East Side Streetsblog documents the Queensboro Bridge bike exit at East 60th Street, where four streams of cyclists and a crosswalk meet at a hairpin; DOT declined to comment.
  83. September 21, 2026 UN week turns Midtown East into a parking lot — *The city named Sept. 21 through 25 gridlock days as the 81st UN General Assembly shuts First Avenue from 41st to 48th Street.* Top story
  84. September 20, 2026 Midtown East DOT's revised Park Avenue plan moves the two-way protected bike lane out of the median and into the roadbed across 11 blocks, paid for by a $39 million outlay approved in July.
  85. September 20, 2026 Financial District Northwind Group lent $219 million to convert floors 2 through 11 of 100 Wall Street into 168 rental apartments, with the upper floors staying office.
  86. September 20, 2026 Little Italy Former Council Member Margaret Chin argues Albany can still hand the Elizabeth Street lot back to the city for Haven Green's 123 affordable senior apartments, citing last year's Flushing Meadows parkland transfer for a casino.
  87. September 20, 2026 The death of Daria Serkov at 14th and First — *Daria Serkov, 15, was killed Friday around 9 p.m. when a truck driver turning right from East 14th Street onto First Avenue struck the Citi Bike she was riding with a 16-year-old friend. She was the fourth cyclist killed on an eight-block stretch of First Avenue in the past decade.* Top story
  88. September 20, 2026 UN week closes the East Side — *The General Debate runs Tuesday through Saturday, First Avenue is closed from East 41st to East 48th Street, and the city has declared Monday through Friday Gridlock Alert days.* Top story
  89. September 19, 2026 Central Park Three men with a gun robbed four people of their phones on the park's east side Thursday night, two near 106th Street and East Drive.
  90. September 19, 2026 MSG paused Knicks single-game sales after opening-night seats hit $1,251, calling it a pricing mistake and promising refunds.
  91. September 18, 2026 Midtown About 60 Metro-North riders forced open doors and walked the tracks into Grand Central after a woman threatened passengers; no weapon was found.
  92. September 18, 2026 Hudson Square A 6,500-square-foot car-free plaza with a rainbow street mural opened between Little Sixth and Dominick Street.
  93. September 18, 2026 Morningside Heights Columbia's gates stay closed to the public; a new committee is due to recommend next steps by the end of the semester.
  94. September 18, 2026 Penn Station MTA chief Janno Lieber said "There was never any discussion of us approving the project," contradicting Amtrak adviser Andy Byford.
  95. September 18, 2026 UN week shuts down the East Side — *Starting Sunday, First Avenue closes from 41st to 48th Street and 42nd Street closes between First and Second while the General Assembly sits, through Sept. 28.* Top story
  96. September 17, 2026 Midtown A woman shouting "this will be your last day on Earth" on a New Canaan train led a rider to pull the emergency cord 100 yards from Grand Central; 60 passengers walked the tracks and she was charged with a terroristic threat.
  97. September 17, 2026 Midtown East DOT's new Park Avenue design from 46th to 57th streets removes parking and a traffic lane for wider medians and a two-way bike lane, after the MTA's train-shed rebuild ends in late 2029.
  98. September 17, 2026 East Side Community Board 6 voted 42-1 for bus rapid transit on First and Second avenues for the M15, which carries 57,000 daily riders.
  99. September 17, 2026 SoHo Landmarks approved a 20-story, 88-apartment affordable building at 257 Canal Street, with 54 supportive units for young adults aging out of foster care.
  100. September 17, 2026 Upper East Side The Met broke ground on Frida Escobedo's modern and contemporary wing, set to open in 2030 with a year-round rooftop cafe over Central Park.
  101. September 16, 2026 SoHo Landmarks unanimously approved 88 permanently affordable units at 257 Canal Street, 54 for young adults leaving foster care.
  102. September 16, 2026 Chelsea work began on turning the old Bayview prison at 550 West 20th Street into 130 affordable homes, a $167 million project.
  103. September 16, 2026 Upper East Side the Met broke ground on its Frida Escobedo-designed Tang Wing, adding nearly 50% more modern and contemporary gallery space by 2030.
  104. September 15, 2026 DA Alvin Bragg seized 12 deepfake porn sites built from images of about 1,200 real people; no one has been charged.
  105. September 15, 2026 Chinatown A flatbed truck with a brake fluid leak came off the Manhattan Bridge onto the Canal Street sidewalk, killing 77-year-old Tin Jung Ye.
  106. September 15, 2026 West Village A 52-year-old cabbie was found dead in his parked taxi at Seventh Avenue and Charles Street, the third driver death in three months, according to the Taxi Workers Alliance.
  107. September 15, 2026 Washington Heights A hit-and-run driver killed a woman on the Harlem River Drive under the High Bridge on Sunday evening.
  108. September 15, 2026 Morningside Heights Mahmoud Khalil sued Columbia, alleging its "deliberate indifference" to harassment led to his detention; Columbia declined to comment on the case.
  109. September 14, 2026 SoHo A 24-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were killed by a southbound 4 train near the Spring Street station after video showed them sitting on the tracks, the Post reports.
  110. September 14, 2026 East Harlem Edwin Jimenez, 67, died three weeks after a fight outside the Carver Houses at 220 E. 102nd St..
  111. September 14, 2026 CFDA chief Steven Kolb tackled PETA protesters who stormed the COS Fashion Week runway; PETA says it reported the incident to police.
  112. September 13, 2026 The Knicks banner night costs $1,346 to walk in — *The cheapest resale seat for the Knicks' Oct. 20 home opener against the 76ers costs $1,346 with fees, up 526% from last year's opener.* Top story
  113. September 12, 2026 Harlem The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone is moving its headquarters into 9,000 square feet at 119 West 125th Street, inside the Urban League Empowerment Center it helped finance.
  114. September 12, 2026 Soho Corcoran sued Douglas Elliman, Brown Harris Stevens and Real Plus co-owner Eric Gordon to move 600,000 historical listings onto Compass's platform; a judge blocked the migration a day later, with arguments set for November.
  115. September 12, 2026 Alleva reopens in Chelsea Market — *Alleva, founded in 1892 and the oldest cheese shop in the country, reopens Sunday in Chelsea Market, three and a half years after pandemic rent arrears ended its 130 years on the corner of Mulberry and Grand.* Top story
  116. September 11, 2026 Lower Manhattan Tesla is testing Cybercabs with a safety driver on city streets, though TLC rules bar autonomous for-hire rides and the agency cites the 180,000 drivers at stake.
  117. September 11, 2026 Times Square Extell locked in $1.25 billion to finish The Torch at 740 Eighth Avenue, now planned with 1,800 hotel rooms and a drop-tower ride.
  118. September 11, 2026 Hudson Square A $744,000 plaza extending Spring Street Park opened on a former slip lane near the new C/E Spring Street elevator.
  119. September 11, 2026 Upper West Side Jake's Dilemma, the Amsterdam Avenue beer-and-football bar, closes Oct. 18 after 32 years after losing its lease.
  120. September 10, 2026 Financial District No vehicular traffic will be allowed south of Canal Street to Battery Place between Broadway and West Street starting at 6 a.m. Friday for the 25th anniversary ceremony.
  121. September 10, 2026 City Hall The Council's housing committee took testimony on COPA, which would give nonprofits and tenant groups first refusal on roughly 2,100 distressed buildings, and on a 10-year revival of the J-51 tax abatement.
  122. September 10, 2026 Hell's Kitchen Sen. Erik Bottcher and Assembly Member Tony Simone introduced a bill letting city agencies and nonprofits form "Neighborhood Street Teams" that can share client information now treated as confidential.
  123. September 10, 2026 Chelsea A nearly $4 million privately funded redesign of 33,000 square feet at Harborview Terrace is finished, including NYCHA's first pickleball court, with residents voting on everything down to the bench colors.
  124. September 10, 2026 SoHo SL Green sold 110 Greene Street, the 223,000-square-foot building anchored by Balenciaga, to Natora Group for $226 million, $29 million less than it paid in 2015.
  125. September 9, 2026 Upper West Side Manhattan prosecutors indicted Raul Morales, 51, on attempted murder as a hate crime in the July stabbings of two men near two synagogues, citing antisemitic texts recovered from his phone.
  126. September 9, 2026 East Harlem The MTA will take 15 feet of Mensch Supply on East 106th Street for the Second Avenue subway extension rather than the whole store, which the same line already displaced once in 2007.
  127. September 9, 2026 Tribeca A car-free school street is getting a permanent Paris-style gate.
  128. September 9, 2026 The city releases its 9/11 air-quality records — *The city posted more than 170,000 pages Tuesday, settling two FOIL lawsuits, and among them is a May 2002 note whose author wrote that the word "risk" would not appear in cleanup letters.* Top story
  129. September 8, 2026 Washington Heights Lovay Williams, 27, was found beaten to death in her West 156th Street apartment, and her father says her 7-year-old daughter witnessed the killing and lay beside her mother's body.
  130. September 8, 2026 Sutton Place Speaker Julie Menin is threatening to file an amicus brief backing a lawsuit against Guastavino's, the events venue accused of fencing off a public plaza under the Ed Koch-Queensboro Bridge while renting it out for up to $300,000.
  131. September 8, 2026 Upper West Side The Henry, a 45-condo Robert A. M. Stern building at 211 West 84th St., finished construction with what its developer says is Manhattan's first indoor residential pickleball court.
  132. September 8, 2026 East Village Dongbei Chinese Restaurant & Bar signed a 15-year lease for its fourth city location at 63 Cooper Square, at $21,600 a month.
  133. September 8, 2026 Midtown Christie's won unanimous Landmarks approval on July 21 to rebuild its sales room, lobby and entrance canopy at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, with work running through fall 2027 while the house stays open.
  134. September 7, 2026 Washington Heights A 27-year-old woman was found beaten to death on West 156th Street near Amsterdam Avenue, a 5-year-old unharmed beside her; police are treating it as domestic and the suspect is at large.
  135. September 7, 2026 Harlem Beyonce gave $2 million to the Studio Museum in Harlem on her 45th birthday.
  136. September 6, 2026 Upper West Side Two riders were arrested after a 7:38 a.m. fight at the West 96th Street station involving brass knuckles and a box cutter, as felony assaults in the transit system run 435 this year against 397 at the same point in 2025
  137. September 6, 2026 East Harlem The corner of East 101st and Madison is now John William Perry Way, for the officer who stopped filing his retirement papers at One Police Plaza and ran to the South Tower
  138. September 6, 2026 Nolita Kinsmen Property Group filed to rezone 156-166 Bowery for 322 homes in three towers, including 124 affordable senior apartments; the plan is expected to enter ULURP by the end of 2026
  139. September 6, 2026 Midtown Available office space fell to 27.86 million square feet, within 150,000 feet of its March 2020 level, and 2026 is on pace to be the strongest leasing year since 2000
  140. September 5, 2026 Morningside Heights The city's Law Department reversed course and told a judge it supports reopening College Walk, the 116th Street cut-through through Columbia's campus that has been locked since 2023.
  141. September 5, 2026 Midtown An appellate court threw out the arbitration award that would have raised the ground rent under Carnegie House from roughly $4 million to $24 million, sending the co-op and its landlord back to negotiating.
  142. September 5, 2026 Kips Bay The petition to save AMC Kips Bay 15 from NYU Langone's purchase of the retail complex passed 8,000 signatures, and Community Board 6 holds a public meeting on the closure Wednesday, Sept. 9.
  143. September 5, 2026 Mount Sinai's deal with the Justice Department — *A New York hospital system agreed to end a category of care rather than hand its patient files to a grand jury.* Top story
  144. September 4, 2026 Upper East Side Gloria Steinem died at 92 at the East 73rd Street brownstone she first moved into in 1967, three weeks before her memoir was due out.
  145. September 4, 2026 Midtown Vornado revealed a new design for PENN15, a 1,050-foot office tower across from Penn Station, with no construction timeline announced.
  146. September 4, 2026 The rent freeze goes to court — *Nearly a million apartments are already renewing at zero. A judge now decides whether that holds.* Top story
  147. September 4, 2026 Kips Bay fights for its last multiplex — *Fifteen screens and the East Side's only IMAX are set to go dark, and the landlord is a hospital.* Top story
  148. September 3, 2026 Midtown Erin Piacenti, 32, killed in Monday's random Times Square stabbing, was a Bank of America vice president finishing her first day back from maternity leave; her family is raising money for her 5-month-old daughter.
  149. September 3, 2026 Civic Center The city opens its first day care for municipal workers next week on the ground floor of the Dinkins Municipal Building, 41 children chosen by lottery, open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. year-round; one parent estimates it saves him $35,000 a year.
  150. September 3, 2026 Nolita Haven Green is off the Elizabeth Street Garden; a settlement moves the affordable senior project to a city-owned lot at 22 Suffolk Street on the Lower East Side, growing it to more than 180 homes and leaving the garden as parkland.
  151. September 3, 2026 City Hall Council members grilled Board of Standards and Appeals nominee John Mangin for over two hours about his 2014 paper blaming strict zoning and NIMBY homeowners for the housing shortage; a vote is expected Sept. 10.
  152. September 3, 2026 Upper East Side Hochul and Blakeman traded shots over her wearing a hijab at the Islamic Cultural Center, which he called political pandering; Hochul said she dresses for every house of worship and added, "I just love it when men lecture women on whether or not they are a feminist".
  153. September 2, 2026 Times Square TWU Local 100 is demanding tougher penalties after a 30-year-old subway cleaner was slashed repeatedly on the arm trying to stop a man from urinating on a platform.
  154. September 2, 2026 Central Park NYCLASS is calling for an investigation after a 17-year-old carriage horse named Snowman went down in the park Saturday night; the drivers' union says he tripped stepping off a curb and a veterinarian cleared him of injuries.
  155. September 2, 2026 Upper East Side John Galliano withdrew from his planned Met Costume Institute exhibition after backlash over the antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech he was convicted of in France in 2011.
  156. September 2, 2026 The 116th Street bus and bike rebuild — *Ten routes, 65,000 riders a day, and stretches where walking beats the bus. The jackhammers started Monday.* Top story
  157. September 2, 2026 The city's post-outbreak Legionnaires' rules — *Eleven people died on the Upper East Side. The fix starts with finding the cooling towers nobody registered.* Top story
  158. September 1, 2026 Inwood Neighbors want speed bumps and red-light cameras on Sherman Avenue after a Corvette and a Mercedes racing at 6:30 a.m. crashed into a deli at West 204th Street and injured a pedestrian; city data counts at least 27 people hurt in crashes on that street since 2021.
  159. September 1, 2026 East Harlem DOT broke ground on 2.5 miles of bus lanes on 116th Street between Morningside and Pleasant Avenues, where buses crawl at speeds close to 4 mph, plus a protected bike lane on Pleasant Avenue.
  160. September 1, 2026 Kips Bay The AMC Kips Bay 15 closes at the end of the year after NYU Langone bought the retail complex, and local officials say they learned about it with everyone else; a petition to save it has more than 7,000 signatures.
  161. September 1, 2026 Midtown A few hundred people rallied outside Madison Square Garden against an interfaith event that gave its keynote slot to RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat.
  162. August 31, 2026 Financial District The NYPD is still hunting the man who swung a large gardening tool at a 49-year-old rider on a northbound A/C train near Fulton Street on Aug. 9.
  163. August 31, 2026 Inwood Sandra Jaquez of the Hispanic restaurant and bar association said Dyckman Street sales collapsed over two summer weekends, first from the crowd that broke off the Dominican Day Parade and then from the police lockdown that followed: "Las ventas estuvieron por el piso".
  164. August 31, 2026 Inwood City Hall knocked down a flyer claiming the mayor had canceled the Dominican parade for three years, saying the celebration will continue.
  165. August 31, 2026 Harlem Cab drivers held a memorial for Richard Coulibaly, found dead in his vehicle on July 2 during the worst heat wave of the summer, after weeks of searching social media to find his family in Ivory Coast.
  166. August 30, 2026 Hudson Square A 63-year-old Brooklyn man set himself on fire in the lobby of 315 Hudson Street, which houses Google's offices, and was charged with arson; Google said he appeared to be seeking another tenant's space.
  167. August 30, 2026 Alphabet City Ulysses Lucero, 27, was charged with sexually motivated burglary after a reported 4 a.m. break-in attempt near Avenue B and East 7th Street.
  168. August 30, 2026 Upper East Side Council Speaker Julie Menin wrote the Met urging it to drop plans to build the 2027 Met Gala around John Galliano, convicted of a hate crime in 2011, calling the choice a "serious mistake"; museum executives scheduled an emergency meeting Sunday.
  169. August 30, 2026 The East Harlem greenway gets cut in half — *The city had $294 million to rebuild the East River esplanade, then one agency would not close a lane of the FDR and half the project vanished.* Top story
  170. August 30, 2026 Moulin Rouge! takes its last bow — *Seven years, 2,297 performances, and the highest-grossing run in the Hirschfeld's century end tonight.* Top story
  171. August 29, 2026 Kips Bay NYU Langone bought the shopping center under the AMC Kips Bay about a year ago and the theater is set to close by year's end; Assembly Member Keith Powers and other officials sent the hospital a letter asking it to talk.
  172. August 29, 2026 The Panel for Educational Policy refused to approve a $1.65 million Oracle software contract behind the DOE's HR help center and enrollment call center, an early rebuke from Mamdani's own school board.
  173. August 29, 2026 Hudson Square A 63-year-old man set himself on fire in the lobby of 315 Hudson Street, which houses Google offices and the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, and is in stable condition.
  174. August 29, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' outbreak reaches 11 deaths — *The deadliest Legionnaires' cluster since 2015 is over. Most of the cooling towers that feed these outbreaks still go uninspected.* Top story
  175. August 29, 2026 The carriage horse ban and the Far West Side stables — *Ban the carriages and you also unlock three low-rise lots two blocks from the Vessel. The stable owners say that was always the point.* Top story
  176. August 28, 2026 Midtown A federal appeals panel that includes two Trump appointees refused to let the Justice Department seize the medical records of transgender youth treated at NYU Langone and Mount Sinai while the government appeals.
  177. August 28, 2026 Midtown Mamdani named a 15-member Business Advisory Council including RXR's Scott Rechler and chef Marcus Samuelsson, weeks after Ken Griffin and Steve Roth attacked the pied-à-terre tax.
  178. August 28, 2026 Financial District Disney Cruise Line returns to New York in fall 2027 with seven sailings, five to Bermuda plus a New England and Canada foliage run; booking opens to the general public Sept. 8.
  179. August 27, 2026 Chelsea A rendering surfaced for 322 West 15th Street, a six-story condo building from Saffyeh Group, which bought the three parcels between Eighth and Ninth avenues for $19 million in May
  180. August 27, 2026 East Harlem Merchants suing over Mamdani's city-owned supermarket plan say Sanitation fines spiked once they began canvassing; DSNY says it has issued 223 commercial summonses in Harlem since March 1
  181. August 27, 2026 Union Square Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup, took the entire fourth floor of 79 Fifth Avenue for its first New York office, 21,500 square feet
  182. August 27, 2026 The die-in at City Hall Park — *Eighteen cyclists dead this year, the most since 2023, and the mayor who promised streets that were the envy of the world still has no Vision Zero plan on paper.* Top story
  183. August 26, 2026 Carnegie Hill Eliot Spitzer won state approval to empty and demolish 985 Fifth Avenue for a 20-story condo, 26 days after suing the agency that had sat on the request for 26 months.
  184. August 26, 2026 Kips Bay AMC will close its 15-screen Kips Bay theater, one of the city's few IMAX houses, by the end of 2026 after the landlord terminated the lease early.
  185. August 26, 2026 Upper West Side Barzini's, the Broadway grocery that ran 24 hours a day with more than 200 international cheeses since 1983, closes for good Aug. 31.
  186. August 26, 2026 Greenwich Village The New School sold its oldest dorm, Loeb Hall on East 12th Street, to a California investor for $51.5 million, which is listing beds at $2,300 a month where the school charged roughly $2,600.
  187. August 25, 2026 Kips Bay AMC Kips Bay 15, the chain's second-largest Manhattan multiplex and one of the city's few IMAX houses, closes by the end of 2026 after the landlord exercised an early lease termination.
  188. August 25, 2026 East Harlem HPD filed to rezone the block around 22 East 119th Street for 762 affordable and supportive units across three buildings, up from 700 in the earlier plan.
  189. August 25, 2026 Nolita Kinsmen Property Group filed for 322 homes at 156-166 Bowery, including 124 affordable apartments for seniors, the same count once promised at Elizabeth Street Garden.
  190. August 25, 2026 Garment District A judge sent 500 and 512 Seventh Avenue to a foreclosure auction over $356 million in debt; co-owner Meyer Chetrit testified the partnership was "About to give the keys."
  191. August 25, 2026 Harlem The West Harlem Development Corporation's endowment from Columbia has shrunk to $56 million from nearly $100 million with no major community investment, The Post reports.
  192. August 25, 2026 West Village Police identified the woman killed in a Saturday hit-and-run on Sixth Avenue near Washington Place as Destiny Murrell, 22, of Brooklyn; the driver has not been found.
  193. August 25, 2026 The lawsuits over city-run grocery stores — *The bodega owners suing City Hall are not arguing about socialism. They are arguing about who can afford to lose money on a gallon of milk.* Top story
  194. August 24, 2026 Chinatown Eighteen local leaders wrote Mamdani that digging below the water table for the 16-story Rikers replacement jail on White Street could sink century-old wooden building foundations nearby; the city says a sealed pile wall contains the groundwater.
  195. August 24, 2026 Central Park A 41-year-old woman was sexually assaulted near 59th Street and West Drive around 3 a.m. Sunday by a man police believe was a stranger; no arrests.
  196. August 24, 2026 West Village A gray SUV struck and killed a 22-year-old woman in the crosswalk at Sixth Avenue near Washington Place before 6 a.m. Saturday; the driver fled.
  197. August 24, 2026 West Village Façade work is finished on 80 Clarkson, the $1.25 billion Zeckendorf pair of towers on the Hudson, with 112 condos and completion slated for December.
  198. August 24, 2026 Midtown East Marx Realty revealed renderings for a $68 million redo of 430 Park Avenue, adding a 12,000-square-foot amenity floor with a golf simulator.
  199. August 24, 2026 Midtown The couple who scaled the Empire State Building's spire and got engaged on July 1 were back in court Monday on reckless endangerment, burglary and criminal mischief charges.
  200. August 24, 2026 The second Legionnaires' summer — *The city wrote the country's toughest cooling-tower rules and then did not have the inspectors to enforce them. Nine people are dead.* Top story
  201. August 23, 2026 Midtown Carnegie Deli's red-and-white sign went back up this week on the same block it fed for nearly 80 years, with a return planned for the fall.
  202. August 23, 2026 Chinatown NYU researchers found dust levels around the Rikers-replacement jail site consistently above citywide averages, with unexplained gaps in the city's own monitoring data.
  203. August 23, 2026 Inwood Centro Cultural Inmigrante, a permanent home for immigrant-centered theater, opens Sept. 19 with a free community open house.
  204. August 22, 2026 Washington Heights Zeta Charter Schools opened its first high school in leased church space on Broadway, sending its founding ninth-grade class into a building with a robotics lab and off-campus lunch privileges.
  205. August 22, 2026 Nolita Developers dropped their lawsuit against the Elizabeth Street Garden after years of fighting over the space, and the city will instead build affordable senior apartments on a vacant lot nearby.
  206. August 22, 2026 No one from the Mamdani administration showed up to a second City Council hearing on the pied-à-terre tax rollout, and Speaker Menin still hasn't used the subpoena power she threatened months ago.
  207. August 22, 2026 New York City Says It Needs 700,000 New Homes — *City Hall just told every neighborhood in New York exactly how much housing it isn't building.* Top story
  208. August 21, 2026 A majority of City Council members say they're not ready to confirm Mamdani's pick to chair the Board of Standards and Appeals, John Mangin, over his writings on "wealthy homeowner cartels" blocking housing.
  209. August 21, 2026 A Chinatown senior-housing tenant says residents keep their windows shut against dust and noise from the new megajail rising next door, as an NYU study finds elevated air pollution at the site.
  210. August 20, 2026 Washington Heights A grand jury indicted former KIPP Washington Heights Middle School principal Eric Cato on eight counts for sexually abusing at least two students between October 2024 and March 2026.
  211. August 20, 2026 Central Synagogue rallies against antisemitism as hate crimes near 400 for the year — *Five days after a man stormed Shabbat services, Jewish leaders told Mamdani his statements aren't enough.* Top story
  212. August 19, 2026 The NYPD has logged 360 hate crimes since Aug. 1, with 205 targeting Jewish New Yorkers.
  213. August 19, 2026 Luigi Mangione's state murder trial was postponed indefinitely as he argues his federal guilty plea forecloses it; the next hearing is Dec. 10.
  214. August 19, 2026 Comptroller Levine's office found the Met and the Central Park Boathouse have racked up dozens of uncollected fire-code fines because the city won't fine itself.
  215. August 19, 2026 The Council passed a permanent expansion of the Certificate of No Harassment program, backed even by the real estate board, adding cost and delay to building renovations.
  216. August 19, 2026 The Guggenheim is suing to recover a Picasso stolen while on loan to a Pittsburgh museum in 1961.
  217. August 18, 2026 Criminal Court A judge indefinitely postponed Luigi Mangione's September state murder trial while his lawyers argue double jeopardy after his federal guilty plea; a hearing is set for Dec. 10.
  218. August 18, 2026 Central Park The family of Romanch Mahajan, the 18-year-old killed in June's carriage-horse bolt, filed a $105 million claim alleging the city ignored known stray-voltage problems near Cherry Hill Fountain.
  219. August 18, 2026 Penn Station A 19-year-old Australian tourist was stabbed inside the Eighth Avenue McDonald's known to regulars as "Murder McDonald's"; a 25-year-old Florida man was charged with assault.
  220. August 18, 2026 Amtrak reopens the East River Tunnel tube Sandy wrecked — *The tunnel that flooded with 14 million gallons of saltwater in 2012 finally works again, and Amtrak and the MTA are still fighting about how long it took.* Top story
  221. August 17, 2026 Lower East Side NYPD officers fatally shot Wei Chan, 54, after he advanced on them with a butcher knife on Ludlow Street; his 75-year-old father, whom police say Chan cut, is expected to survive.
  222. August 17, 2026 Upper East Side Larry Montes, 46, faces hate-crime charges after storming Central Synagogue's Friday Shabbat service, striking a 63-year-old worshipper and hurling slurs, the latest in a run of antisemitic attacks on Jewish New Yorkers this year.
  223. August 17, 2026 Turtle Bay Germany's UN mission is recladding its 23-story consulate tower at First Avenue and East 49th Street with a new glass facade built for solar panels.
  224. August 17, 2026 Murray Hill More than 40 floats and an "Indian Elvis" rolled down 13 blocks of Madison Avenue for the 44th annual India Day Parade, the country's largest, with Gov. Hochul marching alongside.
  225. August 17, 2026 The Mahajan family's $105 million claim against the city — *Nobody had died on a Central Park carriage ride in over 150 years, until a spooked horse and a stray current changed that.* Top story
  226. August 16, 2026 Upper East Side/Upper West Side The city's "Empire Bins" trash-container rollout would swallow up to 10% of curb parking on the UES and UWS, and Community Board 8 chair Valerie Mason is demanding more input before it goes citywide.
  227. August 16, 2026 Inwood A 72-year-old immigrant-rights activist says an ICE agent maced her while she filmed an arrest, and she's suing under a new state law letting people sue federal agents in state court.
  228. August 16, 2026 Upper West Side Neighbors of a new women's shelter by Gertrude Ederle Playground showed Council Member Gale Brewer photos of fights and drug use, and she said the site should have been permanent housing, not a shelter.
  229. August 16, 2026 East Harlem A 64-year-old man died after a medical episode inside the 25th Precinct stationhouse following his arrest, the fourth death inside an NYPD booking facility this year.
  230. August 16, 2026 Morningside Heights A 24-year-old man was stabbed near Riverside Drive and West 114th Street early Saturday; police are searching for eight people who fled the scene.
  231. August 16, 2026 Nolita The decades-long fight over Elizabeth Street Garden appears to be ending in the neighbors' favor, a sign City Hall is treading carefully around well-organized local opposition.
  232. August 16, 2026 Midtown "Ban the Scan," a Council bill to bar Madison Square Garden's facial-recognition scanners, picked up an endorsement from Mamdani's consumer affairs commissioner this week, though no vote is scheduled.
  233. August 16, 2026 Townhouse prices keep climbing across the borough, with deal volume up 31% and the average sale price up nearly 26% to $10.5 million in the second quarter.
  234. August 16, 2026 The Central Synagogue hate attack — *A man barged into Friday night services shouting slurs, and by Saturday the mayor, the police commissioner and the City Council speaker were all promising the same thing: it can't happen again.* Top story
  235. August 16, 2026 The Dyckman Takeover, round three — *Seven hundred officers and a shuttered street are the city's answer to a teenage crowd that turned deadly once already this month.* Top story
  236. August 16, 2026 A judge freezes the pied-à-terre tax — *The city's newest tax on second homes is on ice, and City Hall is racing an appeal to keep the freeze from sticking.* Top story
  237. August 15, 2026 A City Council majority now backs banning facial-recognition scans at businesses like Madison Square Garden, with Mamdani's consumer-affairs chief calling it protection against "mass surveillance".
  238. August 15, 2026 A Bronx man was charged with hate crimes after storming Central Synagogue during Shabbat services, punching a 63-year-old congregant and headbutting a security guard.
  239. August 15, 2026 Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges Friday, telling the court "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died," and his lawyers moved to toss the state murder case on double-jeopardy grounds.
  240. August 15, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' death toll hits nine — *Nine people are now dead from a cooling tower nobody has identified yet.* Top story
  241. August 14, 2026 Manhattan's median rent hit a record $5,000 in July, up 6.4% from a year ago, as listing inventory fell for a 13th straight month.
  242. August 14, 2026 A single rent-stabilized holdout tenant in Kips Bay is blocking a 160-unit tower that would quadruple housing on the site near NYU Langone.
  243. August 13, 2026 Randy Mastro, Eric Adams' former deputy mayor, is now suing the city on two fronts at once, over the rent freeze and the pied-à-terre tax rollout, both in Staten Island court.
  244. August 13, 2026 President Trump threatened federal action against the pied-à-terre tax, whose $6 million valuation on his own Trump Tower penthouse would make him a taxpayer under it.
  245. August 13, 2026 NoMad A fire shuttered the buzzy Indian restaurant Ambassadors Clubhouse on Broadway near West 31st Street, the city's second high-profile restaurant fire this year.
  246. August 13, 2026 Elizabeth Street Garden survives, housing moves down the block — *A decade of protests just beat a decade of paperwork: the garden stays, and the housing goes somewhere else.* Top story
  247. August 12, 2026 Financial District The vacant 111 Wall Street office tower's conversion into 1,568 apartments is underway, with a quarter of units reserved as affordable housing.
  248. August 12, 2026 East Village Punk scene fixture Chet Mazur, 66, was killed by a mail truck steps from home after playing a set with his band, The Rasslers, at Otto's Shrunken Head.
  249. August 12, 2026 Elizabeth Street Garden's decade-long fight nears an end — *A city-owned Nolita lot that survived one demolition fight may finally get a peace deal: the same number of affordable apartments, a different address.* Top story
  250. August 11, 2026 Morningside Heights Palestinian Columbia students and a former lecturer sued the university, alleging it "actively encouraged" their mistreatment after Oct. 7.
  251. August 11, 2026 Garment District An 81-story tower at 989 Sixth Avenue nears completion with 311 rental and condo units.
  252. August 11, 2026 Liberty Island Boat Capsize Deaths — *A birthday cruise turned fatal because the man at the wheel had no license, no inspection, and four more people aboard than his boat was rated for.* Top story
  253. August 10, 2026 Hell's Kitchen A USPS mail-truck driver was arrested for a fatal hit-and-run that killed 61-year-old Chester Mazur crossing Ninth Avenue at 55th Street.
  254. August 10, 2026 Mayor Mamdani and Rep. Adriano Espaillat kept their physical distance marching Sunday's Dominican Day Parade, months after Mamdani backed the primary challenger who beat him.
  255. August 10, 2026 The NYPD scaled back its car presence at this month's Summer Streets after criticism of last month's heavy-handed "Bummer Streets" policing, Streetsblog reports.
  256. August 9, 2026 Manhattan A 66-year-old woman was charged after allegedly stabbing a 56-year-old woman at a co-op on East 73rd Street, in what a neighbor described overhearing as a caregiving dispute.
  257. August 9, 2026 Manhattan An Army soldier on leave to bury his father was shoved onto E train tracks after a staredown with a stranger and missed the funeral; the attacker remains at large.
  258. August 9, 2026 Manhattan The Spence School's Madison Avenue expansion drew a split Landmarks Commission vote after a preservation group warned of "a dark, dead zone" at street level.
  259. August 9, 2026 NYPD pulled back the police-car blockades that clogged Summer Streets the week before, after criticism and Mamdani saying he'd "follow up on the reporting".
  260. August 9, 2026 Manhattan Vornado, Citadel and Rudin lined up a $3.3 billion construction loan, one of the largest in city history, for a new 350 Park Avenue office tower.
  261. August 9, 2026 Manhattan A year into the FARE Act shifting broker fees to landlords, market-rate rents in the West Village, Lower East Side, Nolita and Chelsea rose an average 18.2 percent, one brokerage found.
  262. August 9, 2026 A boat capsizes off Liberty Island, killing a woman and an infant — *Fourteen people went into New York Harbor after dark Saturday; only twelve came out alive.* Top story
  263. August 8, 2026 Rep. Adriano Espaillat gave Mamdani the cold shoulder at a joint NYPD security briefing ahead of Sunday's Dominican Day Parade, not mentioning the mayor once in his remarks.
  264. August 8, 2026 Midtown The Tony-nominated revival "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" takes its final Broadway bow tonight after 142 performances, with a cast album still coming this winter.
  265. August 8, 2026 A Second Legionella Alarm, One Week After the Last One Ended — *The city just declared the Upper East Side outbreak over. Now a union says a Chelsea hotel's cooling tower tested positive too.* Top story
  266. August 7, 2026 Lower East Side A gunman shot a bodega worker on Rivington Street after a fake candy purchase turned into an attempted robbery; United Bodegas of America is offering a $5,000 reward for his capture.
  267. August 7, 2026 Meatpacking District Landmarks approved a rooftop expansion of 675 Hudson Street to house the first US outpost of London's Annabel's private club.
  268. August 7, 2026 Harlem Legionnaires' Victims Sue the City — *Two summers of the same bacteria, the same cooling towers and now the same death toll, seven, have Harlem asking why its outbreak waited a year for a lawsuit.* Top story
  269. August 7, 2026 Migrant Kids Face Deportation Court Alone — *An 11-year-old who can't read English was handed his own asylum case this week, because the lawyers who used to do it for free just lost their funding.* Top story
  270. August 6, 2026 Murray Hill Six tenants at Josh Gotlib's Black Spruce-managed Copper towers sued, alleging more than $20 million in illegal 421a rent-stabilized renewal hikes.
  271. August 6, 2026 Soho AI company Anthropic signed a lease for the entire 466K-square-foot office building at 330 Hudson Street, July's largest deal in the city.
  272. August 5, 2026 NYU student Alexander Stepnowsky pleaded not guilty to hate-crime charges for raising a swastika flag at a campus building dedicated to a Jewish donor during graduation week.
  273. August 5, 2026 A subway vacuum-train fire near Astor Place injured more than a dozen firefighters and MTA workers and snarled the 4, 5 and 6 lines before dawn.
  274. August 5, 2026 Gov. Hochul called it "outrageous" after a federal agent pepper-sprayed a 72-year-old Hell's Kitchen woman in Inwood for filming an ICE encounter.
  275. August 5, 2026 DOT hit the walking-tracker app WalkNYC with a cease-and-desist letter, saying its name and branding are too close to the city's trademarked wayfinding signage.
  276. August 4, 2026 Lower East Side The old Essex Street Market site will become a 99-unit rental with 26 affordable apartments and a new elevator for the Delancey Street subway station.
  277. August 3, 2026 Midtown Rush played the third of four sold-out Madison Square Garden shows, the band's first tour since drummer Neil Peart's 2020 death.
  278. August 3, 2026 Broadway Hadestown dropped incoming Hades actor Geno Segers "by mutual agreement" days before his debut, after backlash over anti-trans and misogynistic videos he had posted.
  279. August 3, 2026 HUD approves the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses rebuild — *Two of Chelsea's oldest public-housing campuses are about to become the city's biggest rebuild of public housing at once, block by city block, without emptying a single building first.* Top story
  280. August 2, 2026 Soho The Landmarks Preservation Commission reviews a 20-story, 88-unit supportive-housing tower for young adults aging out of foster care at 257 Canal Street on Aug. 4.
  281. August 2, 2026 Citywide Summer Streets closed more than 20 miles of road from the Brooklyn Bridge to Inwood for a second Saturday, with two more before the program moves to Brooklyn and the Bronx.
  282. August 2, 2026 Theater District "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" will release a cast album through Atlantic Records this winter, one week before its Broadhurst Theatre run closes Aug. 8.
  283. August 1, 2026 East Village Haven Plaza tenants still can't shower more than two months after the city ordered fixes for Legionella in their water system.
  284. August 1, 2026 Midtown The Empire State Building's observatory income fell 48.5% as international tourism slumps, forcing owner ESRT to take a $166 million impairment charge.
  285. August 1, 2026 Theater District Five Broadway runs, including "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" and "Death of a Salesman," take their final bows by mid-August.
  286. July 31, 2026 Midtown DOB ordered a peer review of the MetroLoft building next to the Pfizer tower whose columns buckled this month, after engineers found reinforcing steel was never installed on three floors.
  287. July 31, 2026 Upper West Side Raul Morales was indicted on hate-crime charges for stabbing an Asian man and a Jewish man while shouting "Allahu Akbar" on July 23.
  288. July 31, 2026 The Central Park carriage drivers' union says stray voltage, since cut by Con Edison, may have spooked the horse that killed 18-year-old tourist Romanch Mahajan.
  289. July 31, 2026 The Upper East Side's seventh Legionnaires' death, and the East Village's unequal wait — *Two Legionella outbreaks, two very different city responses, and one very clear lesson about which New Yorkers get treated as an emergency.* Top story
  290. July 30, 2026 Midtown The Department of Buildings swept at least eight more construction sites tied to the Pfizer building's steel fabricator, issuing a new stop-work order in Greenwich Village.
  291. July 30, 2026 Upper East Side Compliance with the city's Legionella testing law jumped to 92% among cooling towers swept up in the outbreak investigation, up from 74% two weeks ago.
  292. July 30, 2026 Upper West Side A new city law now gives co-op boards just 45 days to approve or reject a buyer, replacing what for some took seven months.
  293. July 30, 2026 The Pied-à-Terre Tax Mailing Chaos — *Zohran Mamdani spent months promising the tax would only hit rich out-of-towners. This week it landed in the mailbox of a City Council member who's lived on the Upper West Side for decades.* Top story
  294. July 30, 2026 Teen Killed on Illegal E-Moto Near City Hall — *Gabriel Nacato's uncle bought him the bike as a gift four months ago. It had double the legal power and a company that tells buyers how to unlock even more speed.* Top story
  295. July 29, 2026 Midtown A new city law raising the minimum wage for the 20,000 building security officers citywide to $22.20 an hour took effect on the anniversary of last year's mass shooting, honoring Aland Etienne, the officer killed trying to shut down the building's elevators.
  296. July 29, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' Outbreak's Sixth Death — *The bacteria may be gone, but the toll keeps climbing.* Top story
  297. July 28, 2026 Central Park carriage-horse crash victim Romanch Mahajan's family plans to sue the city, saying it never built basic safety infrastructure for horses.
  298. July 28, 2026 Weill Cornell will pay $30 million toward a new patient-safety institute after settling a federal probe into a urologist convicted of abusing patients as young as 13.
  299. July 28, 2026 Battery Park City's $2 billion flood wall needs a partial redesign after two condo boards wouldn't grant construction easements, delaying completion past 2030.
  300. July 28, 2026 Fifth Death in Upper East Side Legionnaires' Outbreak — *City inspectors are still finding buildings that skipped legally required Legionella tests as the death toll climbs.* Top story
  301. July 27, 2026 Chelsea A 12-story, 48-unit condo building topped out at 35 West 14th Street, on a site Nexus Development bought for $14.4 million in 2023.
  302. July 27, 2026 Soho Landmarks reviews a scaled-down 21-story, 159-unit tower at 277 Canal Street Tuesday, with 31 affordable units, after sending the design back in June.
  303. July 27, 2026 Helicopter noise complaints topped 17,000 over the past year as Councilmember Lincoln Restler presses Mayor Mamdani to restrict flights from the city's two public heliports, which EDC says generate $78 million a year.
  304. July 27, 2026 Harlem Every eighth grader at Success Academy Harlem West passed the AP World History exam usually taken by 10th graders, with 89% scoring "advanced".
  305. July 27, 2026 The UWS hate-crime stabbings collide with the Mamdani-Netanyahu fight — *Two men were stabbed blocks apart on the Upper West Side Thursday, and by Sunday the attack had become a weapon in the fight over the mayor's words about Israel's prime minister.* Top story
  306. July 26, 2026 Washington Heights An open-air prescription-drug market on St. Nicholas Avenue reopened within three days of an NYPD raid the Post exposed, sellers again hawking painkillers and unapproved rat poison.
  307. July 26, 2026 Upper West Side The Jewish man stabbed by a screwdriver-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar" earlier this month has moved to Florida, with neighbors citing Mayor Mamdani's rhetoric toward Israel as part of why.
  308. July 26, 2026 Diamond District A black-market puppy ring sold $1,500 "designer" dogs out of baby strollers on West 47th Street for the fifth time in a year, and a passing traffic cop didn't intervene.
  309. July 25, 2026 Five weekends of 1, 2, and 3 train disruptions begin Friday night as the MTA replaces aging switches through Aug. 24.
  310. July 25, 2026 Despite a new decriminalization law, the NYPD issued more criminal summonses to street vendors in early 2026 than the same period last year.
  311. July 25, 2026 The UWS stabbings and the Mamdani-Netanyahu rift — *A knife and a screwdriver on the Upper West Side turned a mayor's Israel rhetoric into a citywide reckoning.* Top story
  312. July 24, 2026 Upper West Side NYPD charged Raul Morales with stabbing two men in separate attacks near Central Park West, one Asian and one Jewish, and is investigating both as possible hate crimes.
  313. July 24, 2026 Midtown East The Department of Buildings swept at least eight construction sites tied to the steel fabricator involved in the Pfizer building's near-collapse, including a new stop-work order in Greenwich Village.
  314. July 24, 2026 Midtown SL Green raised its earnings guidance 26% on a Manhattan office leasing boom, signing 53 leases for 445,000 square feet last quarter as scarce Class A space pushes rents higher.
  315. July 24, 2026 Central Park's Bethesda Fountain goes dark for a year starting in August for a $37 million restoration alongside a rebuild of the Conservatory Water model-boat pond.
  316. July 24, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' outbreak's fifth death — *The city has known how to stop this since 2015. Four of the buildings where it just found live bacteria weren't even following the law.* Top story
  317. July 23, 2026 Midtown The Department of Buildings swept eight sites tied to the fabricator implicated in the Pfizer tower near-collapse, adding a stop-work order in Greenwich Village.
  318. July 23, 2026 Chelsea NYCHA's approval to rebuild the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses was reissued after a court lifted its pause; 18 senior holdouts are suing NYCHA for harassment.
  319. July 23, 2026 Mamdani's Netanyahu arrest vow collapses — *A campaign-trail threat met the limits of the mayor's office, and the backlash didn't wait for the fine print.* Top story
  320. July 22, 2026 East Harlem The city issued a request for developers to finally build 140 mixed-income apartments on a Second Avenue lot that's sat vacant for nearly 20 years.
  321. July 22, 2026 Citywide A judge ruled the city must face a lawsuit alleging the Department of Homeless Services repeatedly placed a transgender woman in men's shelters, where she says she was sexually assaulted.
  322. July 22, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' outbreak turns political — *A fifth death, a Council speaker calling the health department's response insufficient, and an inspector corps still short of jobs it was funded to fill a year ago.* Top story
  323. July 22, 2026 Deportation orders in NYC immigration court double in a month — *A judge with 90 cases on a Friday docket, and dozens of people who flew in from other states just to be marked absent.* Top story
  324. July 21, 2026 Hell's Kitchen Gov. Hochul unveiled the winning bid to turn an underused state site near the Intrepid Museum into a mixed-use development with more than 1,100 new homes.
  325. July 21, 2026 West Side Mamdani's seven-day deadline to clear a blocks-long homeless encampment near the Intrepid came and went Monday with only a handful of tents dismantled.
  326. July 21, 2026 East Village The New Museum's new $82 million OMA-designed wing sprang a leak during last week's flash floods, closing the building for the weekend.
  327. July 21, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' outbreak claims a fourth life — *A bacteria the city has beaten back before killed again, and the scientists whose job is to stop it are running the response more than a third short-staffed.* Top story
  328. July 21, 2026 A veteran set 26 Federal Plaza ablaze, and the FBI says he meant to kill — *A lone man with fireworks, gasoline and a cart full of anti-ICE literature turned Monday morning at the city's biggest immigration court into a scene federal officials call an attempted mass-casualty attack.* Top story
  329. July 20, 2026 Bryant Park A homeless man with 25 prior arrests since 2018 was charged with striking a baby in a stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street.
  330. July 20, 2026 Hell's Kitchen Developers unveiled renderings for Hudson Landing, a $1 billion, two-tower, 1,127-unit project with 338 affordable homes and a new Intrepid Museum wing.
  331. July 20, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' Cluster — *A cluster that started in a handful of cooling towers has now taken three lives, and City Hall says it's already over.* Top story
  332. July 19, 2026 Harlem A 24-unit rent-stabilized building at 502 West 135th Street listed for $57,000 a unit, "less than the price of a Kia Telluride," as landlord groups point to falling values under the rent freeze and the 2019 tenant-protection law.
  333. July 19, 2026 Midtown East Developers are already discounting unused air rights after the Pfizer building's near-collapse, with one telling The Real Deal he'd now pay owners "nothing" for them.
  334. July 19, 2026 Javits Center DSA NYC co-chair Gustavo Gordillo defended the rent freeze on Fox News, telling host Martha MacCallum landlords have averaged "12 percent" returns and "no one has a right" to more.
  335. July 19, 2026 Bryant Park A homeless man was charged with assault after allegedly hurling a cell phone that struck a baby in a stroller near Sixth Avenue.
  336. July 19, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' cluster claims a second life — *The city says its cooling-tower crackdown stopped the outbreak from spreading further; it didn't stop it from killing a second New Yorker.* Top story
  337. July 19, 2026 Flash floods swamp the five boroughs, a day before the World Cup final — *Soho went underwater in the time it takes to watch a soccer half, and the storm still had a second act coming Sunday.* Top story
  338. July 18, 2026 Meta Platforms is laying off 1,160 New York City employees, according to a filing with the state Department of Labor.
  339. July 18, 2026 Upper West/East Side The city's new curbside trash-bin rollout will eliminate about 1,500 street parking spaces on each side of Central Park, more than any other neighborhood.
  340. July 18, 2026 The Pfizer tower's missing steel — *An engineer stamped a plan requiring steel boxes around two columns. Nobody built them, and the city's own website briefly said so before the line vanished.* Top story
  341. July 18, 2026 Legionnaires' outbreak claims first life — *Sixty-seven cases in, the Upper East Side cluster stopped being just a summer scare.* Top story
  342. July 17, 2026 The Council also passed the $10,000 paraprofessional bonus 49-0; Mamdani hasn't said whether he'll sign it.
  343. July 17, 2026 Mayor Mamdani confirmed he's opting out of the city's public matching-funds program for his 2029 reelection bid, freeing him to raise unlimited money after outside groups spent $28 million against him last year.
  344. July 17, 2026 Upper West Side A state judge froze the city's planned 72nd Street protected bike lanes after a block association and disabled residents sued, arguing the redesign would strand emergency access.
  345. July 17, 2026 Central Park Speaker Menin says the Central Park carriage-horse ban needs "beefed up" worker-transition protections before a final Council vote, as the union representing drivers accuses her of political opportunism.
  346. July 17, 2026 The Midtown Tower's Missing Steel — *The building's own engineer just confirmed what a deleted city report already said: the reinforcement that was supposed to hold up 235 East 42nd Street was never there.* Top story
  347. July 16, 2026 The Department of Buildings ordered an independent peer review of MetroLoft's Pfizer-building conversion after last week's column buckle, and is now sweeping other construction sites tied to the same builder and engineers.
  348. July 16, 2026 David Siffert won the Assembly District 66 primary by 15 votes after a recount, on track to become New York's first openly nonbinary state legislator.
  349. July 16, 2026 The Legionnaires' Cluster Hits 63 — *A month-old bacterial outbreak just found its 63rd victim, and this week's heat is exactly the fuel it needs to keep spreading.* Top story
  350. July 15, 2026 Foley Square Protesters rallied after ICE agents fatally shot two people who weren't their intended targets, in Texas and Maine within a week; Hochul said "we sure as hell don't want them murdered in their vehicles."
  351. July 15, 2026 Foley Square Mahmoud Khalil sued the Heritage Foundation and Trump officials under the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act, alleging a "public-private" conspiracy to dox and deport pro-Palestinian activists.
  352. July 15, 2026 Financial District MetroLoft closed on a second office tower at 1 Whitehall St. days after two columns buckled at its Pfizer HQ conversion, as DOB inspectors fan out to the developer's other sites.
  353. July 15, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' Outbreak — *The bacteria that killed seven people in Harlem last year is back, and this time it's reached the Met.* Top story
  354. July 14, 2026 East Village An NYPD parking lot at 324 East 5th Street will become The Aurea, 131 affordable apartments with a senior center, the first city land deal of the Mamdani era, with 30% reserved for the formerly homeless.
  355. July 14, 2026 East Village Rat sightings jumped 37.6% in Community Board 3 even as citywide reports fell 23%, with one block seeing a 400% spike blamed on buildings still exempt from trash-container rules.
  356. July 14, 2026 Upper East/West Side New curbside "Empire Bins" will each claim roughly 1,500 street parking spots on the Upper East and Upper West Sides, the steepest losses anywhere in the city.
  357. July 14, 2026 MetroLoft buys its next tower after the Pfizer scare — *The city's biggest office-to-apartment developer didn't pause for a second before buying its next building.* Top story
  358. July 13, 2026 Chinatown NYPD raided Canal Street's counterfeit market again Sunday, but shop owners say vendors are back selling within 30 minutes every time.
  359. July 13, 2026 Hell's Kitchen Demolition is nearly done at 613 Eleventh Avenue for Extell's $512 million ABBA Voyage hologram concert hall, a 3,000-seat venue backed by $49.7 million in city tax incentives.
  360. July 13, 2026 Chinatown The Landmarks Preservation Commission reviews a plan Tuesday to enlarge Kimlau Square and possibly relocate the landmarked arch honoring WWII pilot Benjamin Ralph Kimlau.
  361. July 13, 2026 West Side A homeless encampment along 11th Avenue near the Intrepid Museum has grown to 12 blocks, with 311 complaints from the area spiking to 48 this year.
  362. July 13, 2026 The Legionnaires' Outbreak Crosses Central Park — *An Upper West Side co-op just found the same bacteria in its own pipes, and most city landlords still haven't run the test the law requires.* Top story
  363. July 13, 2026 The Pfizer Tower Gets a Net, Not an Answer — *A 21-story sag now wears a giant net while the developer calls investors to insist the largest apartment conversion in the country is still on schedule.* Top story
  364. July 12, 2026 Chelsea A state appellate court lifted its pause on the $2 billion Elliott-Chelsea and Fulton Houses redevelopment, clearing NYCHA to start relocating tenants ahead of demolition of the Related Companies-led project.
  365. July 12, 2026 Hudson Yards State officials unveiled two towers north of Hudson Yards that would add 3,950 apartments, including 1,185 permanently affordable, built under a state override that bypasses the City Council's land-use review.
  366. July 12, 2026 The Legionella Law New Yorkers Are Ignoring — *Five years after the last deadly outbreak forced a tougher law, barely one in seven building owners is following it.* Top story
  367. July 12, 2026 Nine Hidden Injuries at the Pfizer Building — *The city's paperwork on its biggest office conversion undercounted the workers it hurt by threefold.* Top story
  368. July 11, 2026 Financial District Silverstein Properties broke ground on 2 World Trade Center, the final tower on the 16-acre site, with American Express signed as anchor tenant for up to 10,000 workers.
  369. July 11, 2026 Hell's Kitchen NYCHA finished a $3.8 million open-space overhaul at the Harborview Terrace Houses, adding a water-play plaza and a renovated senior fitness area for 377 households.
  370. July 11, 2026 The Guggenheim's Legionella Test — *One of the city's most-visited museums just became part of the map investigators are using to hunt a bacterium that has already put 22 people in the hospital.* Top story
  371. July 10, 2026 26 Federal Plaza ICE told a federal judge its immigration courthouses are the "safest location" for arrests because of sanctuary-city street protests, defending arrests made despite a May order limiting the practice.
  372. July 10, 2026 Central Park Council Majority Leader Shaun Abreu endorsed banning horse-drawn carriages after two recent deaths, boosting Romanch's Law ahead of a July 15 hearing.
  373. July 10, 2026 A federal judge ruled Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll the $5.8 million a jury awarded after finding he sexually abused and defamed her.
  374. July 10, 2026 The Pfizer Tower Near-Collapse — *The beams were bending like cigarettes, and the paperwork shows the warnings were there a year before anyone evacuated.* Top story
  375. July 10, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' Cluster — *Thirty-six cases in three ZIP codes, and the city still can't say which cooling tower did it.* Top story
  376. July 9, 2026 Midtown Street restrictions around 235 East 42nd Street narrowed Wednesday but four buildings remain under full vacate orders, leaving hotel guests, workers, and business owners locked out more than 24 hours after the evacuation.
  377. July 9, 2026 Hudson Square Anthropic signed a lease for the entire 466,000-square-foot building at 330 Hudson Street, one of the largest commercial leases in the city this year, as AI companies drive an office-market comeback.
  378. July 9, 2026 Legionnaires' Cluster, Week Two — *Seven days into an Upper East Side outbreak, health officials have tested nearly all the neighborhood's cooling towers and still have not found the source building.* Top story
  379. July 8, 2026 A bookkeeper at John Jay College of Criminal Justice was charged Tuesday with stealing $710,000 from student stipends in the APPLE Corps law enforcement program over six years, paying herself through more than 260 fraudulent checks.
  380. July 8, 2026 The Midtown Collapse Scare — *The city's largest office-to-residential conversion nearly fell from the inside out, and The City Reporter found that officials had known about the site's safety problems since spring 2025.* Top story
  381. July 7, 2026 Congestion pricing cut ambulance response times across Manhattan, a new study found, the latest evidence that the toll's benefits extend beyond traffic flow.
  382. July 7, 2026 New York City completed the Madison Avenue double bus lane and the Lexington Avenue offset bus lane conversion, the first new dedicated bus infrastructure in years.
  383. July 7, 2026 Midtown Urban Hawker, the Singaporean food hall conceived with Anthony Bourdain and hawker-stalls champion K.F. Seetoh, will close this month, six years after it opened.
  384. July 6, 2026 Lower East Side Kevin Maxwell, 37, was arrested Sunday for allegedly whipping a 12-year-old boy with a belt and shouting anti-gay slurs near the NYCHA Baruch Houses playground in an April attack; he faces hate crime assault and child endangerment charges.
  385. July 6, 2026 East 23rd Street A Kodiak 100 seaplane returning from a birthday party in East Hampton made a hard landing in the East River on Sunday afternoon, snapping a wing strut; all 8 passengers and crew were rescued, 2 with minor injuries, and the FAA is investigating.
  386. July 6, 2026 MSG area Hackers exposed 26 million Madison Square Garden visitor records including faceprints and home addresses; City Council bill Intro 213 would ban biometric surveillance at businesses open to the public and give New Yorkers a private right of action to sue.
  387. July 6, 2026 MSG Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were married at Madison Square Garden on July 3 in a ceremony for roughly 1,000 guests, officiated by Adam Sandler; a source told El Diario that Paul McCartney performed.
  388. July 6, 2026 Upper East Side Legionnaires' Cluster — *Fourteen cases in 72 hours, no source found yet, and the Harlem outbreak last summer is the blueprint for how quickly this can turn fatal when a building owner skips the maintenance log.* Top story
  389. July 5, 2026 Harbor About 45 tall ships from more than 20 nations sailed past the Statue of Liberty and up the Hudson River Saturday as a B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 Spirit bomber flew overhead marking America's 250th birthday at the Sail4th 250 celebration.
  390. July 5, 2026 Legionnaires' disease comes to Carnegie Hill Top story
  391. July 4, 2026 Harbor Nearly 100 ships parade the East River today in Sail4th, the July 4 tallship fleet review marking America's 250th.
  392. July 4, 2026 Statue of Liberty Artists projected anti-deportation messages onto the base of the Statue of Liberty overnight, reclaiming the monument on the eve of America's 250th.
  393. July 4, 2026 The Knicks signed veteran center Andre Drummond to a one-year deal, adding a physical big man for next season.
  394. July 4, 2026 Record Homelessness on the Street Top story
  395. July 3, 2026 ICE has continued arresting immigrants at the federal courthouse on Varick Street despite court orders barring courthouse arrests, a new lawsuit alleges; the arrests occurred at the Manhattan immigration court.
  396. July 3, 2026 A Tibetan protester fatally set himself on fire outside the United Nations building in Midtown while carrying a Tibetan flag, the Post reports.
  397. July 3, 2026 Two Russian social media climbers who got engaged at the top of the Empire State Building antenna after breaking through locked security doors were released Thursday on supervised release; they kissed before going down the 4/5 stairs at City Hall.
  398. July 3, 2026 The city is investigating a possible Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to two Upper East Side neighborhoods.
  399. July 2, 2026 NoMad New renderings for 262 Fifth Avenue reveal an 860-foot condo tower with concave gold paneling and a communal midpoint cutout; developer Boris Kuzinez expects 26 full-floor and duplex units to deliver in December 2026.
  400. July 2, 2026 American Express is establishing its new global headquarters at 2 World Trade Center, alongside JPMorgan Chase's new Park Avenue HQ, signaling that major companies are still committing to the city despite uncertainty around the Mamdani administration's policies.
  401. July 2, 2026 Battery Park Free outdoor screening of "On the Town" (1949) at the Battery on July 8, with doors at 6 p.m. and film at 7:30 p.m., as tall ships gather in the harbor for America250 and Sail4th NYC.
  402. June 30, 2026 All 17 Knicks championship players now have co-named streets along Sixth and Seventh Avenues in royal blue and orange, creating what the DOT calls a "championship route" through Midtown; the signs stay up four weeks.
  403. June 30, 2026 Andrew Cuomo has been named co-chair of a joint venture between Intercontinental Exchange (parent company of the New York Stock Exchange) and OKX, a $25 billion cryptocurrency platform with 120 million customers, his first prominent private-sector role since leaving office in 2021.
  404. June 30, 2026 Harlem The Classical Theatre of Harlem opens a free outdoor production of Othello at Marcus Garvey Park's Richard Rogers Amphitheater, with previews July 2 to 3 and the run continuing through July 26.
  405. June 30, 2026 Fenway Park, technically The Yankees were swept in four straight games by the last-place Red Sox, failing to collect a hit through five innings in each of the final three games; the slump is now the defining story of the team's season.
  406. June 29, 2026 Upper East Side The Torkian Group revealed a 30-story, 70-unit rental tower at 301 East 71st Street at Second Avenue, near the Q train's 72nd Street station. Eighteen units will be affordable at 60% AMI, spread across the full height of the building rather than clustered. No construction timeline yet.
  407. June 28, 2026 Chelsea The penthouse at One High Line at 500 West 18th Street sold for $23.5 million, $4,600 per square foot, with the buyer shielded by a trust; the unit had been on the market since May 2023 at a $24 million ask.
  408. June 28, 2026 Lower East Side Shinko Co., a dry-cleaning-equipment supplier, paid $24 million for a six-story mixed-use building at 245 Eldridge Street; the seller had bought it in December for $16.5 million, a $7.5 million gain in six months.
  409. June 28, 2026 Hell's Kitchen The Italian Navy tall ship Amerigo Vespucci will host 30 guests from the Long Branch Amerigo Vespucci Society for a private ceremony at Pier 86 on July 6 during the Sail4th 250 celebration, arranged through ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh.
  410. June 26, 2026 East Harlem DOT added dedicated bus lanes in both directions on E. 116th Street from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue, running 24 hours a day; the crosstown corridor carries some of Harlem's heaviest bus traffic. (Streetsblog)
  411. June 26, 2026 Midtown Life sciences leaders from drug companies, real estate firms, and universities are pushing Mayor Mamdani to reverse an EDC decision that slashed the agency's life sciences division from eight employees to two, warning the move will stall growth in New York's still-developing biotech industry. (Crain's New York)
  412. June 26, 2026 Upper West Side Film at Lincoln Center's Elaine May retrospective runs June 26 through July 2; May appears in person at a Thursday screening of a new 4K restoration of Mikey and Nicky, the 1976 film marking its 50th anniversary, with tickets at $25 for the Q&A screening. (Time Out New York)
  413. June 25, 2026 The Sound of Music returns to Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, with Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers as Maria, directed by Lear deBessonet, whose Ragtime revival swept the Tonys; previews begin March 23, 2027, ahead of opening night April 15.
  414. June 25, 2026 Midtown RXR listed the Helmsley Building at 230 Park Avenue for about $670 million, roughly $530 million below the $1.2 billion it paid a decade ago, as CEO Scott Rechler continues unwinding problem office assets and replacing institutional capital with "special situation" funds willing to be contrarian.
  415. June 25, 2026 Soho/Canal Street The Landmarks Preservation Commission sent Morris Adjmi's proposed 21-story tower at 277 Canal Street back for revisions after commissioners balked at the height; the project would trade density for a new elevator at the Canal Street N/Q/R/W station under the city's Zoning for Accessibility program.
  416. June 25, 2026 With 375,000 New York City residents enrolled in the federal SAVE Plan and a 90-day clock to switch repayment options starting July 1, NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection is offering free one-on-one counseling at more than 40 Financial Empowerment Centers across the boroughs.
  417. June 25, 2026 Harlem Lincoln Center's Summer for the City is running a free merengue dance night this Friday, June 26, at Lincoln Center Plaza, featuring Dominican accordionist Rubali Valerio, known as El Rubí del Acordeón, and a salsa lesson before the dancing begins at 6:30 p.m..
  418. June 23, 2026 The Knicks' first NBA title in over 50 years drew a ticker-tape parade up the Canyon of Heroes, ending at City Hall with Mamdani handing players the keys to the city. The orange-and-blue-wrapped subway station and trophy displays stayed up around town all week.
  419. June 23, 2026 Tenants at NYCHA's Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses won a second court pause of the demolition-and-rebuild plan on June 11, as a judge issued a temporary restraining order over a project to replace 2,056 aging apartments.
  420. June 23, 2026 The New York Historical opened a $175 million democracy wing designed by Robert A.M. Stern, the museum's first expansion in nearly a century, with a future permanent home for the American LGBTQ+ Museum.
  421. June 23, 2026 Nolita The relocated Morini, now Piccolo Morini at the old Kimika space on Kenmare Street, opened with $9 martinis all night, a rare value play from the Altamarea Group.

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