42+ min ago (657+ words) Published Nov 30, 2025 at 2:45 p.m. ET Modified Nov 30, 2025 at 3:07 p.m. ET Immigrant advocates urged New Yorkers Sunday to continue resisting federal immigration enforcement " a day after protestors clashed with the NYPD while trying to block ICE from conducting operations in Chinatown. And they pressed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop charges against people arrested during the altercations. Police said several people were taken into custody after a group blocked the street and multiple exits, and threw debris, but haven't provided a count or detailed specific charges. Messages to City Hall this weekend haven't yet been returned. "We encourage folks not to engage in a way that is violent and in a way that will give them an excuse to come down even harder," Public Advocate Jumaane Williams told a gathering at Howard Street and Centre Street Sunday, where a day earlier protesters massed…...

4+ hour, 26+ min ago (620+ words) Published Nov 30, 2025 at 11:01 a.m. ET The man accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown hotel a year ago will be back in court this week as his lawyers ask a Manhattan judge to toss out evidence in the case. Lawyers for Luigi Mangione argue police officers did not read Mangione his Miranda rights and did not have a proper warrant when they interrogated him and searched his backpack at a Pennsylvania McDonalds last December. Police say a gun, a notebook, and electronics recovered from the backpack tie the 27-year-old to Thompson's shooting. Prosecutors maintain that police did nothing wrong. Mangione faces state and federal murder charges. He could be sentenced to life in prison if he's convicted in the state case. Prosecutors in the federal case are seeking the death penalty. He has pleaded not guilty to all…...

15+ hour, 26+ min ago (648+ words) Published Nov 30, 2025 at 2:01 p.m. ET James Solomon and Jim McGreevey, the remaining candidates in a hard-fought race to become Jersey City's next mayor, will clash in a runoff election on Tuesday. The two Democrats finished first and second in November's election. Solomon, a city councilmember, received 29.2% of the vote. McGreevey, a former New Jersey governor, got 25.1%. Both faced a crowded field, but neither received the requisite 50%, setting up the Dec. 2 one-on-one contest. The lack of affordable housing in Jersey City has dominated the race. And while the candidates agree on many ideas for solving the problem, their differences on the issue have become more stark as Tuesday's runoff draws closer. Both favor a mandatory 20% set-aside for affordable housing units in all new developments. They also agree that the municipality needs to be more discerning about handing out tax abatements to developers....

23+ hour, 20+ min ago (346+ words) Published Nov 29, 2025 at 4:07 p.m. ET Demonstrators clashed with police officers outside a parking garage on the corner of Centre St. and Howard St. in Manhattan's Chinatown on Saturday, claiming they were blocking federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents inside who were planning enforcement action. Protesters obstructed one-way traffic with a pile of garbage on Centre St. to stop vehicles from leaving the garage. An NYPD spokesperson told Gothamist that several protestors were taken into custody. Lee Smith said he came out to protest when he saw news reports of the incident. "The police were down on Canal Street," he said in an interview at the scene. "We've seen quite a bit of damage, garbage cans being thrown over, planter pots being broken." Protestors piled garbage on Centre St. in Manhattan. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency did not immediately respond to…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago (810+ words) Published Nov 29, 2025 Gov. Kathy Hochul's massive campaign war chest is a source of political strength. But after a Democratic primary rival questioned some of the incumbent's fund-raising methods, the governor's campaign said it will return thousands of dollars she accepted from people she's appointed to state boards and councils. Public records show Hochul has raised at least $72,500 from people who donated after she gave them positions steering state policy on things like cannabis and elevator safety. Some of the people in question also contributed before their appointments, and some of the appointees were first put into their positions by Hochul's predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. Hochul raised around $4.3 million in the first six months of the year and reported $17.5 million on hand as of July. She faces a Democratic primary challenge from Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, a one-time ally who broke with…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago (364+ words) Published Nov 29, 2025 at 10:49 a.m. ET The Office of Chief Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death of a woman found in a burning Bronx apartment building on Friday, according to a spokesperson from the New York Police Department. Firefighters and police found the body of the 73-year-old woman in her apartment while they were responding to a fire inside her building. She was pronounced dead at the scene. FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Duggan said during a press conference that her death was unrelated to the fire. A spokesperson for the NYPD said the identity of the woman is being withheld until her family is notified. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner did not immediately respond to questions about the cause of death. Firefighters and police arrived at 1520 Sheridan Ave. at around 3 P.M. Friday afternoon. The fire had started on the top…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago (421+ words) Published Nov 28, 2025 at 12:48 p.m. ET Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman says he has a plan to protect the suburbs from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policies: a wall of surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology along Long Island's border with New York City. Blakeman, a Republican who is considering a run for governor, spoke of the new security measures in an interview with Fox News Digital. "We are doing everything necessary to make sure that Nassau County is safe," he said. "We are installing technology along the border of New York City that will read license plates, that will have facial recognition, that will have video cameras." Facial recognition technology, which is used by the NYPD, has been questioned by civil liberty and criminal justice experts over its accuracy and threats to privacy. A Blakeman spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry....

2+ day, 8+ hour ago (534+ words) Published Nov 28, 2025 at 7:01 a.m. ET A new report argues the sanitation department isn't going far enough in its effort to containerize all the city's trash, noting the plan pushed under Mayor Eric Adams doesn't cover the heaps of recycling that are still allowed to pile up on sidewalks. The report, which the Center for Building in North America and the Center for Zero Waste Design published on Friday, gives city officials credit for mandating all the city's businesses and small residential buildings put out their garbage in secured bins. But it also points out that paper, plastic and glass recycling continues to clutter up walkways. The group wants the city to eventually require recyclables as well as compost to be put out in the city's new "Empire Bins," which are slowly being rolled out in parking spaces to store trash from…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago (249+ words) Published Nov 26, 2025 NYPD officials said Tuesday evening they're closely monitoring a shooting in Washington, D.C., that left two National Guard members injured just blocks from the White House, though there are no known threats to New York City. The troops were deployed from West Virginia, authorities said. One was reportedly shot in the head. Their conditions were not immediately known. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch addressed the incident, which she said appeared to be targeted, on Wednesday evening during a press conference about security for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. "We are keeping the Guard members and their families in our thoughts and prayers, and we are closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with our law enforcement partners in D.C.," she said. "At this time, there appears to be no known nexus to New York City." Tisch has previously said…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago (931+ words) Published Nov 27, 2025 at 6:01 a.m. ET One of the unhappiest places in New York City during President Donald Trump's and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's White House lovefest last week was the Consolidated Edison Building. Two of America's best-known political leaders " who are diametrically opposed on nearly everything " announced to the world that they found common ground in demanding the city utility giant bring its rates down. "We've gotten fuel prices way down, but it hasn't shown up in Con Edison," the president said. "We have to get Con Edison to start lowering the rates." But before the world's two most influential New Yorkers met that day, Con Ed had already won approval from New York state to boost its rates, starting in 2026. For electricity customers, rates will go up by 3.5% 2026, 3.2% for 2027 and 3.1% for 2028, according to a summary of the agreement between Con Ed…...