It's Thursday in New York City, where there's perhaps no greater thrill than spotting a discarded treasure on someone's stoop.
That's what interior decorator Jocelyn Ullman said she thought was happening when she found several wet but salvageable rugs on a sidewalk and front steps of a Bushwick building earlier this month.
But the rugs' owner, Chyelle Milgrom, said she didn't intend to give them away — she was trying to dry them out after her store flooded.
Here's how this misunderstanding spiraled to involve a police report, media coverage, online hate and a traumatic episode in a Bushwick precinct that both parties say they regret.
And here's what else is happening:
Mayor Zohran Mamdani yesterday admitted that he doesn't have the authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes if he comes to New York City for the U.N. General Assembly — but the mayor did urge New Yorkers to protest the head of state.
National Weather Service meteorologists have confirmed that multiple tornadoes touched down in parts of New York and New Jersey during Tuesday's storms.
Deportation orders for people who don't show up to their immigration court hearings — which are frequently held with little notice — are spiking in New York City and nationwide, according to a new analysis of immigration court data.
A group of landlords has sued the city’s Rent Guidelines Board, claiming its decision last month to freeze rents on 1 million regulated apartments for the next two years was the result of a “sham process with a predetermined outcome.”
Beginning this Monday, the American Museum of Natural History will display the Larry O’Brien Trophy bestowed upon the Knicks for their NBA championship win.
There a ton of great details in this story about what most New York City newsstands can't sell (things over $10), don't sell (newspapers) and soon may stop selling (candy and soda, because of GLP-1s).
”What I've heard consistently over the last 18 months is that Tom Kean Jr. does not show up. He doesn't listen. He's not there for us. And so, I'm not going to be like that,” said Democratic House candidate Rebecca Bennett.
