Weather: ⛅ Cloudy and humid this morning with a chance of showers, then partly sunny later with highs in the upper 80s.
It's Thursday in New York City, where a 3.5-mile stretch of abandoned train tracks in Queens is currently covered in debris and overgrown greenery.
But a long-running debate over the track's future — bring back rail service between Ozone Park and Rego Park, or turn it into a High Line-style park — recently took a jump forward when Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a $43 million plan to make it a park called "Queensway."
The Knicks' championship ticker-tape parade kicks off at 10 a.m. near Bowling Green.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch is warning that potentially millions of fans might show up and be turned away once the designated viewing pens are full.
“We just received an invitation from the White House, which we accepted,” Knicks owner James Dolan said in an interview yesterday. “We still have to figure out the details, etcetera.”
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who's running for reelection, is facing two Democratic primary challengers for the first time since he assumed the post in 2007.
Early voting turnout in New York City is down more than 50% compared to this time last year, despite several competitive contests, including three federal races where Mayor Mamdani made high-stakes endorsements.
A spooked carriage horse broke free from its driver in Central Park yesterday and smashed into another horse-drawn carriage, killing an 18-year-old passenger, officials said.
Wednesday's fatality, which comes a week after a carriage horse ingested atoxic shrub in Central Park and died, immediately prompted calls from the Central Park Conservancy to ban the horses.
Attorneys for Luigi Mangione will pursue a mental health defense at his upcoming New York murder trial, according to the Manhattan judge overseeing the case.
Rex Heuermann — the architect who pleaded guilty to killing eight women and scattering their bodies in sandy stretches of Suffolk County — was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is accusing Salon 1884's owner, Andrea Marshall, of running a sweatshop in the Garment District, exploiting her employees and stealing more than $50,000 in wages over the last three years.
About a half-dozen congressional Democrats from New Jersey and other states came to Newark City Hall yesterday for a hearing meant to call attention to conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center — and to needle Republicans for not joining in the inquiry.
