It's Monday in New York City, where Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he's "feeling good" after his surprisingly chummy meeting with President Donald Trump last Friday.
"Too often, when two politicians meet, the conversation rarely extends beyond them," Mamdani said outside a Bronx church yesterday. "I think it was New Yorkers that won in this conversation. It was a conversation that came back again and again to the people of the city."
President Trump — who'd previously threatened to withhold federal funding from the city — said after the meeting he would still send the National Guard to the city if he felt it was needed, but other places need troops more right now.
The Hochul administration recently approved both a permit for a natural gas pipeline off New York City's coast and a deal for a Bitcoin mining facility to keep operating upstate, angering climate activists.
A new documentary shines a light on the early days of SantaCon, when it was just a one-off party organized in San Francisco by the same group of alternative-minded pranksters who, in their pursuit of “meaningless madness,” also accidentally planted the seeds for what became Burning Man.
Luisa Janssen Harger Da Silva was on a platform at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station when she fainted and fell onto the tracks, NYPD and MTA records show.
“We have done our job and that now is, you know, it's a call for the next generation of leaders,” Velázquez told Gothamist. “ And, and to have the certainty in your heart that we are in a good place when it comes to the amount of young people that are ready.”
City workers have uncovered thousands of artifacts during a historic restoration of dozens of cobblestone blocks in Brooklyn, with most artifacts dating from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.
