ICE shooting in Marble Hill, Shesterkin out for the year, the rink is open. New York Explained for October 11, 2026.

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October 11, 2026
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Gov. Hochul and Bruce Blakeman meet Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the only debate of the governor's race; Marist has Hochul up 11 points and Emerson 12, and she holds over $19 million in campaign cash to his less than $180,000 [5].
Two women, Angel Johnson, 39, and Robin Kennedy, 57, were killed crossing Allerton Avenue at Holland Avenue in the Bronx when an 81-year-old driver ran a steady red light in a Mercedes; no one has been arrested [13].
Owners hit by the new pied-à-terre tax sued the Hochul administration, arguing it discriminates against nonresidents and applies retroactively to Jan. 5; an 85-year-old Little Italy co-op owner says his bill jumped by $83,603, and Hochul's office says people who can afford a multimillion-dollar second home "can afford to pay their fair share" [22].
Mayor Mamdani declined Bensonhurst's Columbus Day Parade invitation and never answered Astoria's; City Hall did not return messages, and Council Speaker Julie Menin marched as grand marshal in Brooklyn [1].
Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels has no "State of Our Schools" speech scheduled, the first chancellor to skip it since it began in 2023; the Post reports one in three students is chronically absent, and neither he nor the mayor commented [31].
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The ICE shooting in Marble HillPhoto: gothamist

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.

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Shesterkin is done for the seasonPhoto: blueshirt banter

Shesterkin is done for the season

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 The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens its 90th seasonPhoto: abc7ny

The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens its 90th season

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Story: the day’s big ones, in their own words and numbers

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.

The ICE shooting in Marble Hill
Photo: gothamist

Agents moved to arrest Belgal near West 225th Street, steps from the 1 train, and at least one fired into his gray SUV; DHS says he refused to get out and accelerated into two ICE vehicles [14]. He was discharged from NewYork-Presbyterian Allen hours later and is held at MDC in Brooklyn, where his lawyers say a bullet is still lodged in his body and agents had no valid warrant [14]. Police say he has a 2023 grand larceny plea and a pending 2025 drug-sale case; Mamdani spent two hours on the phone with Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and could not win his release [14].

“New York City will not stand by while ICE agents shoot New Yorkers”
Zohran Mamdani, mayor · [14]
“true threat to society”
Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security secretary, on Belgal · [14]
“working to establish facts and determine the appropriate course of action.”
Darcel Clark, Bronx district attorney · [14]
By the numbers
  • 7shell casings recovered at the scene [14]
  • 5people arrested at protests near West 120th Street and Broadway Thursday night [14]
The thread
  1. Jul 2026Masked ICE agents fanned out across Bushwick, Inwood, East Elmhurst and College Point over two days, pepper-spraying a bystander who filmed them.
  2. TodayBronx DA Clark is investigating the shooting, and Mullin says the agents who fired are on administrative leave [14]
WatchBelgal's lawyers have asked a federal judge in Manhattan to order his release and keep him in New York or New Jersey [14].
FromGothamist

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.

Shesterkin is done for the season
Photo: blueshirt banter

Shesterkin heads to long-term injured reserve, Joe Veleno joins him for about three months, and Joonas Korpisalo is still out another month, so Spencer Martin backs up Garand [54]. Garand cleared waivers before the season and earned his first career shutout in his first start, against Detroit [54][55]. The Rangers are 4-2 [54].

“Turns out that losing your best player, no matter what position they play, is really bad for a team.”
Blueshirt Banter, Rangers blog · [55]
By the numbers
  • .927Shesterkin's save percentage over five starts, with a 1.79 GAA and his first career goal [54]
  • .971Garand's save percentage on 33 saves in two games, one goal allowed [54]
WatchGarand's first start as the No. 1 comes Sunday night against the Canucks [54].
FromBlueshirt Banter

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.

The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens its 90th season
Photo: abc7ny

Skaters are on the ice daily, a month before the Christmas tree arrives Nov. 7 [42]. Center Plaza now holds Kenny Scharf's "Scary and the Dancers!", led by a 34-foot inflatable sculpture, on display through Nov. 1 [42]. Kids get Art Sundae, a free art workshop with Art Production Fund, every Saturday in October [42].

By the numbers
  • $22starting ticket price [42]
  • 34-footScharf inflatable on Center Plaza [42]
  • Nov. 7the tree's scheduled arrival [42]
WatchScharf's installation comes down Nov. 1; the tree arrives six days later [42].
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Around the Boroughs

  • Bronx (Marble Hill): Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Target to stop letting ICE use its Bronx parking lots as staging areas, calling it "inaceptable" [4].
  • Bronx (Allerton): About 200 people held a vigil for Nathaly Ramirez, 23, allegedly pushed from a 15th-floor balcony with her baby, and WARM's Stephanie McGraw said three women were taken to safety from the crowd [16].
  • Bronx (Norwood): Det. Jose Mercedes, stabbed seven times in a chain snatching on Oct. 2, told the Post he's "feeling much better"; two suspects were caught in Lynn, Massachusetts [6].
  • Queens (Jamaica): The 14-story, 173-unit affordable Hillside North Building at 161-09 Hillside Ave. won a $1.2 million NYSERDA award and is slated for June 2029 [24].
  • Bronx (Williamsbridge): Permits filed for a seven-story, 57-unit building at 3301 White Plains Road near the Burke Avenue 2/5 stop [25].
  • Queens (Arverne): A four-story, 25-unit building is planned at 72-50 Burchell Ave., near the Beach 67th Street A [26].
  • Brooklyn (Park Slope): The plain five-story apartment building replacing Grand Prospect Hall is nearly done, four years after the banquet hall was razed [23].
  • Brooklyn: Developers filed plans for just one 50-plus-unit condo project this year, versus 30 in 2018, and 71% of new condo plans are for buildings under 10 units [28].
  • Manhattan (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 [27].
  • Manhattan (Lower East Side): Rat sightings are up 38% this year, which Sanitation pins on three problem blocks [29].
  • Brooklyn (Gravesend): Roughly 4,000 people lined up under the elevated D for the MTA's memorabilia sale, where three used subway seats went for $1,000 and Spike Lee bought a 34 St-Penn Station sign [30].
  • Citywide: Artists can now get city grants of up to $10,000, double the old amount, Mamdani and Cultural Affairs announced [38].
  • Citywide: The DOE's in-house comics imprint has printed 6 million copies of 46 titles, including a new "Know Your Rights" ICE comic, making it one of the country's top 10 comic publishers [37].
  • Citywide: The 3-1 Giants are 3.5-point underdogs at Washington today, and the 1-3 Jets host the 3-1 Browns without Breece Hall and Adonai Mitchell [50][63].
  • Upstate (Buffalo): The Sabres lost 4-1 to Utah, have one goal in two games, and Tage Thompson's power-play tally ended an 0-for-13 start [79].

Worth Doing

  • Straker's: London chef Thomas Straker's restaurant opened Saturday at 59 Grand St. at West Broadway in Soho, in the old Lucky Strike space; start with the mussel flatbread [35].
  • New York Comic Con: The Javits Center runs through Sunday, and the DOE's table hands out free civics comics, with an LGBTQ+ comics panel today [37].
  • Last bows for Heathers and Spelling Bee: Both Off-Broadway revivals close today at New World Stages; Jon Cryer and Ali Stroker are in Spelling Bee [39].
  • Columbus Day Parade: The 82nd parade runs up Fifth Avenue Monday, Oct. 12, free to watch, with Ray Dalio as grand marshal [41].
  • Brothers Original: The cart outside the Puck Building at 303 Lafayette St. sells a Tunisian brik with a runny egg for $15, Tuesday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. [36].
  • Good to know: Expect over an inch of rain today, heaviest this afternoon and evening with 25 to 30 mph gusts, clearing Monday afternoon; low-lying spots on the South Shore and lower harbor may see minor flooding early Monday [32].

Only in New York

Only in New York
Photo: bronx times

At the MTA's once-a-year surplus sale in Gravesend, Austin Celestin queued two hours to buy a sign from the 66 St-Lincoln Center stop where he grew up, found it "way way way too much," and settled for one pointing straphangers to the 58th Street exit at Columbus Circle, the stop he still uses [30]. Some shoppers lined up at 10 p.m. the night before. Spike Lee was asked why he came and said: "I'm a collector." [30]