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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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."
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. August 23, 2026 Inwood Centro Cultural Inmigrante, a permanent home for immigrant-centered theater, opens Sept. 19 with a free community open house.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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
  47. August 19, 2026 The NYPD has logged 360 hate crimes since Aug. 1, with 205 targeting Jewish New Yorkers.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. August 19, 2026 The Guggenheim is suing to recover a Picasso stolen while on loan to a Pittsburgh museum in 1961.
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. 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
  56. 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.
  57. 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.
  58. 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.
  59. 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.
  60. 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
  61. 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.
  62. 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.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. 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
  70. 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
  71. 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
  72. 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".
  73. 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.
  74. 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.
  75. 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
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. 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.
  80. 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.
  81. 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
  82. 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.
  83. 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.
  84. 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
  85. August 11, 2026 Morningside Heights Palestinian Columbia students and a former lecturer sued the university, alleging it "actively encouraged" their mistreatment after Oct. 7.
  86. August 11, 2026 Garment District An 81-story tower at 989 Sixth Avenue nears completion with 311 rental and condo units.
  87. 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
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  93. 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.
  94. 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".
  95. 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.
  96. 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.
  97. 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
  98. 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.
  99. 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.
  100. 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
  101. 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.
  102. 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.
  103. 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
  104. 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
  105. 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.
  106. 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.
  107. 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.
  108. 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.
  109. 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.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. 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.
  113. 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.
  114. 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
  115. 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.
  116. 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.
  117. 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.
  118. 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.
  119. 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.
  120. 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.
  121. 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.
  122. 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.
  123. 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.
  124. 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
  125. 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.
  126. 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.
  127. 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.
  128. 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
  129. 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
  130. 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.
  131. July 29, 2026 The Upper East Side Legionnaires' Outbreak's Sixth Death — *The bacteria may be gone, but the toll keeps climbing.* Top story
  132. 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.
  133. 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.
  134. 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.
  135. 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
  136. 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.
  137. 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.
  138. 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.
  139. 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".
  140. 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
  141. 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.
  142. 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.
  143. 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.
  144. July 25, 2026 Five weekends of 1, 2, and 3 train disruptions begin Friday night as the MTA replaces aging switches through Aug. 24.
  145. 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.
  146. 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
  147. 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.
  148. 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.
  149. 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.
  150. 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.
  151. 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
  152. 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.
  153. 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.
  154. 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
  155. 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.
  156. 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.
  157. 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
  158. 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
  159. 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.
  160. 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.
  161. 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.
  162. 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
  163. 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
  164. 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.
  165. 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.
  166. 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
  167. 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.
  168. 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.
  169. 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.
  170. 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.
  171. 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
  172. 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
  173. July 18, 2026 Meta Platforms is laying off 1,160 New York City employees, according to a filing with the state Department of Labor.
  174. 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.
  175. 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
  176. 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
  177. July 17, 2026 The Council also passed the $10,000 paraprofessional bonus 49-0; Mamdani hasn't said whether he'll sign it.
  178. 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.
  179. 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.
  180. 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.
  181. 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
  182. 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.
  183. 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.
  184. 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
  185. 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."
  186. 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.
  187. 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.
  188. 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
  189. 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.
  190. 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.
  191. 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.
  192. 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
  193. 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.
  194. 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.
  195. 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.
  196. 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.
  197. 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
  198. 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
  199. 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.
  200. 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.
  201. 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
  202. 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
  203. 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.
  204. 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.
  205. 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
  206. 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.
  207. 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.
  208. 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.
  209. 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
  210. 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
  211. 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.
  212. 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.
  213. 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
  214. 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.
  215. 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
  216. 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.
  217. 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.
  218. 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.
  219. 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.
  220. 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.
  221. 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.
  222. 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.
  223. 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
  224. 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.
  225. July 5, 2026 Legionnaires' disease comes to Carnegie Hill Top story
  226. July 4, 2026 Harbor Nearly 100 ships parade the East River today in Sail4th, the July 4 tallship fleet review marking America's 250th.
  227. 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.
  228. July 4, 2026 The Knicks signed veteran center Andre Drummond to a one-year deal, adding a physical big man for next season.
  229. July 4, 2026 Record Homelessness on the Street Top story
  230. 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.
  231. 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.
  232. 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.
  233. July 3, 2026 The city is investigating a possible Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to two Upper East Side neighborhoods.
  234. 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.
  235. 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.
  236. 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.
  237. 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.
  238. 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.
  239. 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.
  240. 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.
  241. 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.
  242. 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.
  243. 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.
  244. 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.
  245. 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)
  246. 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)
  247. 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)
  248. 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.
  249. 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.
  250. 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.
  251. 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.
  252. 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..
  253. 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.
  254. 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.
  255. 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.
  256. 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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