It's Tuesday in New York City, where criminal summonses for low-level offenses including public drinking, smoking in train stations and laying down across subway seats have jumped since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.
And under a strategy the mayor supports, the NYPD plans to "flood the zone" this summer with up to 3,800 officers in high-crime areas, including public housing complexes and subway stations.
The mayor's office said its approach to policing has contributed to historically low shooting, murder and robbery figures.
But criminal justice advocates who saw Mamdani as a champion of reducing criminalization said they've been disappointed by his first five months in office. Here's why.
And here's what else is happening:
ICE agents pepper-sprayed protesters, including Sen. Andy Kim, and pushed demonstrators back with batons outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark yesterday, according to local officials and video from the scene.
Good luck to the 50,000 people who managed to sign up yesterday for the city's lottery for $50 World Cup tickets.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said the agency would play a "key part" of security at World Cup matches.
Here's how public health officials are planning for "worst-case scenarios" at the World Cup such as infectious disease spread, food poisoning and dangerous heat waves.
Since the summer of 2023, a "coming soon" sign has hung outside the Morningside Heights location of Minzon, a fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant. Will it ever actually open?
“You can’t completely rely on spell check,” said Jay Nayak, 11, from Manhattan. Learning to spell the old-fashioned way “builds a work ethic,” he said.
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso said the cancellation of events at Ginger’s is “representative of a bigger problem we’re seeing across Brooklyn.” He cited similar noise complaints aimed at the West Indian Day Parade and Puerto Rican Day celebrations.
Assemblymember Michaelle A. Solages, a Nassau County Democrat, said the “erosion of Black power in the South” as well as the Trump administration's attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives necessitated a slower, more considered approach to the Reparations Commission's work.
The three-day Long Island Rail Road strike ended with a deal that gave workers a solid raise — but the MTA settled without reforms to notorious work rules officials had sought in exchange for the pay bump.
