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It's Thursday in New York City, where bodega workers in the Bronx and Brooklyn are reconsidering how they protect themselves as police continue to search for a man they say is connected to two fatal shootings this week.
The shootings have rattled workers and others around both stores. One worker near the Brooklyn shooting said he has even begun closing early.
The FBI is now offering a reward up to $25,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of Jesus Acosta, the man police are seeking in connection with both shootings. The United Bodegas of America said it is offering a $10,000 reward for information. The group also called for more panic buttons in bodegas and legislation to allow trained and licensed bodega owners and workers to carry firearms.
And here's what else is happening:
It’s back-to-school month for most of the city’s students, but as summer vacation comes to an end, New York City’s library systems are ramping up their programming offerings.
New Yorkers are mourning another beloved performer: "Rocky Horror” fans gathered at Studio 54 after the death of Tim Curry, the actor who made Frank-N-Furter a cult icon.
A Brooklyn bar owner claims in a new lawsuit that NYPD officers illegally raided his establishment multiple times, and that the brother of the police commissioner at the time shook him down for money when he complained about it.
A former tenured professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point says the school ordered faculty to stop teaching that humans cause climate change and then pushed him out after he objected, according to a federal lawsuit.
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver still faces up to 17 years in prison, as she lost her bid to have federal assault charges against her related to an incident outside Newark's Delaney Hall ICE detention center tossed.
New York’s opaque corporate ownership rules are complicating Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout as officials struggle to determine exactly who owns and lives in posh pads potentially subject to the surcharge.
Serena and Venus Williams will team up again to play doubles together at the US Open after receiving a wild card.
Even though NJ Transit moved a record number of fans to MetLife Stadium during the World Cup, it still lost money.
The popular Gottesman Pool at the Davis Center in Central Park is temporarily closed due to mechanical issues.
“If I see that places are quiet, like the streets are quiet, and my guts tell me to close, I just close immediately. I don’t wait for a second moment.”
A group of restoration workers have spent the summer wading in the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park alongside snapping turtles, lizards and fishing spiders as part of a tireless effort to remove 15,000 cubic feet of invasive plants called phragmites.
Even as most political observers focus on this year’s midterm congressional elections, recruitment for left-leaning outsider candidates in New Jersey for 2027 is already underway.
For business owners in Red Hook, which was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and two major fires within the last year, the ferry is proving a difference-maker – for the arts community, entertainment, restaurants and jobs.
