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It's Tuesday in New York City, where three top advisors to Mayor Zohran Mamdani are recounting how Islamophobia after 9/11 altered the trajectories of their careers.
Faiza Ali, Ali Najmi and Ramzi Kassem hold key appointments in the administration of the city’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Their paths to the halls of power show that the wave of post-9/11 Islamophobia that cast Muslims as adversaries also sparked a political awakening among a generation that went on to help Mamdani get elected.
All three have said the post-9/11 wave of Islamophobia and government dragnet altered the trajectories of their careers, mirroring the maturation of advocacy groups that helped mobilize Middle Eastern and South Asian voters ahead of Mamdani’s historic win.
When the MTA began construction on the Second Avenue subway in 2007, lumber and construction outlet Mensch Supply had to pack up shop and move to Harlem. Nearly 20 years later, Mensch almost had to move again.
Heading out for a run? Here are 13 trails for marathoners and casual joggers across the five boroughs.
After the 9/11 attacks, the group Tape Art created 490 street art memorials of silhouettes made of tape across the city. The archive is now back online.
Starting today, New York City sanitation officials will begin cracking down on small buildings not using the city’s official trash bins.
As kids begin to return to school, New York City health and education officials are urging parents to double-check that their children are up to date on their vaccinations.
However, thousands of New York City students may not have the yellow buses they need to get to school when classes resume Thursday.
Did you know: Ice cream trucks can jam their jingles as long as they're in motion. But once they stop, the music has to stop, too.
The acclaimed All Points West Distillery says a planned move from New Jersey to the Hudson Valley is unavoidable due to regulations strangling the industry.
Documents released by the Mamdani administration suggest New Yorkers were misled about air qualityafter 9/11.
Aaron Judge has been activated from the Yankees' injured list.
Broadway Week starts today, during which you can get two tickets for the price of one for 25 participating shows.
An Upper East Side neighborhood came together after a preschool’s corn stalks were vandalized.
The Giants have released veteran wide receiver Darius Slayton, the team's longest-tenured player.
Get to know Paul Olson, the guy who sells used books by Columbia University.
“The promise of this moment isn't that Muslims become a protected political class. It's that Muslim political participation becomes ordinary. And that we get to see Muslim politicians get to succeed and fail and govern and be judged just like everybody else.”
- Zara Rahim, a former campaign and mayoral advisor
FOR MAYOR MAMDANI
New Yorkers lining Eastern Parkway to watch Brooklyn’s annual West Indian American Day Parade on Monday showed pride by wrapping themselves in their countries’ flags and donning the national colors on bandannas, bikinis, hats and other attire.
The documentary features sit down interviews with 12 people from wide ranging backgrounds including New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, the novelist Nell Zink, professional skateboarder Pat Smith, (the World Trade Center was a well known skate spot), as well as a buddhist monk.
A federal court dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit that attempted to thwart restrictions New Jersey had placed on federal immigration officers’ access to nonpublic state property.
