Cuban Day Parade brings multitudes including “Presidenta” Barbara Cabon (right). ( Photo: Brian Berger) Cuban Day Parade Brings Multitudes, Merriment to Madison Avenue It was a great day in midtown for the red, white and blue on Sunday July 12 where the eighth annual Cuban Day Parade danced,... Home 20 Jul 2026 | 11:23
A photograph included in federal court filings shows Frank Carone (center) with Yan Po Zhu (left), owner of the Long Island City Microtel Inn at the center of the alleged bribery scheme. Zhu and Carone have both pleaded not guilty. ( Photo: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York) Texts, a Hotel Contract and the Frank Carone Bribery Case It was 2022, and New York City was scrambling to house an unprecedented wave of migrants. Hotels across the five boroughs... News 16 Jul 2026 | 12:45
This rendering depicts plans for the proposed 14-story affordable housing complex to rise on what is now a parking lot used for private cars of NYPD officers in the 9th Pct. ( Photo: Mayor’s Office) Affordable Housing Tower Plan in East Village Stirs Local Debate The Mamdani Administration is backing a plan to turn an East Village parking lot on East 5th Street now used by the NYPD’s... News 16 Jul 2026 | 11:49
Israel Day Parade, Governor Kathy Hochul speaking. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Israel Day Parade Brings Huge Crowd, High Spirits to Fifth Avenue Tens of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers, Israelis, their friends, allies and dozens of elected politicians came to Fifth... News 09 Jun 2026 | 09:46
E-bikers such as the one above on Seventh Ave. last week, were routinely ignoring red lights even before Mayor Mamdani took away the criminal summons penalty for bike traffic infractions. The relaxed standards take hold on March 27. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Repeal of Criminal Summonses for Bikes Stirs Controversy As of March 27, bikers and e-bikers will no longer face criminal summons for traffic infractions. The bike lobby was rejoicing... News 23 Mar 2026 | 03:20
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an order repealing all executive orders signed by Eric Adams after Sept. 26, 2024, but said an executive order he signed will preserve the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism. ( Photo: Michael Appelton/Mayor’s Photography Office) Mamdani Nixes 2 Exec Orders Jewish Groups Favored; Keep Office to Combat Antisemitism Only hours after his public inauguration ceremony on Jan. 1, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was repealing all executive orders... News 05 Jan 2026 | 01:44
The Dallas Penn Day Proclamation: Mayor Adams Really Did This One of the common refrains from Mayor Eric Adams’s scandal-plagued term of office is that the press didn’t give him credit... News 26 Dec 2025 | 09:37
Mayor Eric Adams has joined the chorus of voices demanding a carriage horse ban. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons, raduranga) Mayor Adams: I, Too, Want To Ban Horse Carriage Trade The movement to ban the use of carriage horses has gained an interesting high-profile ally: Mayor Eric Adams. On September... News 22 Sep 2025 | 05:06
Walden’s Unity Poll Idea: More Symbolic Than Impactful Even As Cuomo Vows Active Indie Bid Long-shot mayoral candidate Jim Walden has recently proposed a so-called “unity poll,” in the five-candidate race in order... Voices 14 Jul 2025 | 04:20
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral primary based in large part on campaign promises tied to the cost of living, which voters say is their top issue even ahead of public safety. ( Photo: Madison Stewart, Zohran for New York City ) Mamdani Tops First Poll in Five-Person Sprint to November Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani officially won the Democratic primary as of July 1 after the third round of ranked-choice voting,... Home 07 Jul 2025 | 02:01
Young attendee wears the craft project she created at the Museum Mile Festival on Fifth Avenue. ( Photo: Christine Butler for MCNY) Fifth Avenue Transformed into a Cultural Playground for Museum Mile Festival Fifth Avenue shut down to cars but came alive with art, music, and crowds on the evening of June 10 as the 47th annual Museum... City Arts 16 Jun 2025 | 04:46
A marcher is carried away by police officers at an anti-ICE protest in Lower Manhattan, June 10, 2025. ( Photo: Alex Krales/THE CITY) NYPD Arrests Dozens as Thousands of New Yorkers Join L.A. in Protesting ICE Raids Thousands of New Yorkers flooded the streets of Lower Manhattan the evening of June 10 protesting the Trump administration’s... News 11 Jun 2025 | 11:36
WNBC streamed the first major New York City Democratic mayoral debate, June 4, 2025. ( Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY) NYC Mayoral Candidates Battle Each Other — and Trump — in Chaotic Nine-Way Debate The nine Democratic candidates for mayor squared off Wednesday in the first televised debate of a long campaign season, with... News 05 Jun 2025 | 05:33
Hundreds of bike protestors started a rally at Union Square on May 30 to protest the NYPD’s recent criminalization drive against bikers. ( Photo: Christian Spencer) Cyclists Protest NYPD Criminalization Push Against Bikers for Traffic Infractions Cyclists Demand ‘Hands Off Our Bikes!’ as They Flood Manhattan Streets Protesting NYPD Crackdown on Undocumented Delivery... News 03 Jun 2025 | 06:49
Federal agents wait in the lobby of 26 Federal Plaza to detain people after immigration hearings, May 28, 2025. ( Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY) Migrants, Protesters, and a Pastor Arrested Inside and Outside Manhattan Immigration Courthouses Federal agents inside a Manhattan immigration court building on May 28 made numerous arrests of migrants and observers, including... News 02 Jun 2025 | 07:15
