Weather: ☀️☔ Sunny this morning, with afternoon showers and highs in the lower 70s.
It's Wednesday in New York City, where World Cup fans simply haven't been reserving hotel rooms.
"We expected big numbers and everything," said John Fitzpatrick, who owns two Manhattan hotels. "But it's definitely not showing any sign of that at all."
In response to sluggish bookings, summer game-day hotel room rates in the city have dropped 24% between Dec. 28 and April 12, a bigger drop than any other of this year's host cities, according to new data.
Here's why some industry insiders are still holding out hope that last-minute bookings and exceptionally wealthy fans will salvage their hopes of making money off this soccer tournament.
And here's what else is happen:
The estimated $900 million a year it would take to make the MTA’s buses free for everyone would be better spent on expanding fare discounts for low-income New Yorkers, according to a new report from the nonprofit Citizens Budget Commission.
"We're going to flood the zone. You're going to see more ICE agents than you've ever seen before": Trump border czar Tom Homan yesterday pledged to retaliate if New York lawmakers pass any laws that limit the state's cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Three Staten Island men have pleaded guilty to trying to bribe a juror with up to $100,000 in a federal cocaine trafficking trial of a former Montenegrin heavyweight boxer.
An Uzbek pop star's planned Brighton Beach concert has been canceled after gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman and other local Republicans criticized her past statements criticizing Israel and Jewish people.
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that Louisiana’s congressional map was illegally gerrymandered — a decision that can effectively pave the way for Republicans to eliminate majority-Black districts — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries renewed calls for New York to draw a more Democrat-friendly district map.
The NYPD said it has transferred a Brooklyn police captain after he was captured on video bad-mouthing Mayor Zohran Mamdani and calling Democrats "a waste of human race."
The abrupt shutdown of Spirit Airlines over the weekend has turned the historic Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport into a ghost town.
The national soccer teams of Morocco, Brazil, Haiti and Senegal are all planning to set up their World Cup base camps in North Jersey this year.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside an Upper East Side synagogue last night to oppose the activity inside: a sale of occupied West Bank real estate.
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