It's Thursday in New York City, where more than a million soccer fans are expected to visit for the World Cup, which starts today.
While the games are being played across the river in New Jersey (by the way, don't even think of getting dropped off at the stadium in a car that isn't an Uber), visitors spending any time in the five boroughs should know: This town is 400 years old. Certain things aren't working perfectly.
The NYPD said early this morning that officers made multiple arrests, which they were still tallying alongside reports of damage.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has embraced the Knicks fervor, faced criticism earlier this week after viral videos showed San Antonio Spurs fans being roughed up after Game 3.
New York City homes worth a total of about $400 million are tangled in ownership disputes that make them susceptible to foreclosure, deed theft and other predatory real estate schemes each year, according to a new report.
A former NYPD officer pleaded guilty yesterday to a number of crimes for having sex with a woman he arrested and for sending inappropriate texts from his work phone.
An NYPD auto pound in Queens has banned unlicensed tow trucks from dropping cars off at the facility as part of the department's latest effort to crack down on rogue drivers who operate illegally in the city.
Sue Sarah Gilbert, a recreational artist and great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, is using her own money and funds raised from other wealthy investors to put her colorful pictures in subway stations, effectively in place of ads.
For only about $1,000 a month, women can rent an apartment in a New York City convent boarding house. (They have curfews, and boys and booze aren't allowed.)
A free observatory is now open at the top of the David Dinkins Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan, once the home of WNYC.
More than a dozen progressive New Jersey Democrats have ousted old-guard party leaders since the fall of “The Line” – a process that allowed county political organizations to place their endorsed candidates in a neat vertical fashion under other prominent candidates.
South Williamsburg's own Jose Alvarado is the only native New Yorker on the team and wears the number five on his jersey, a number he said he chose in part as a nod to the five boroughs.
Many tenants began withholding rent because they had been dealing for years with unsafe conditions, while others fell behind because they could not afford their monthly payments, according to the tenant union. They may now get a blank slate.
