It's Wednesday in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has confirmed that he won't arrest or even attend protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who's speaking at the U.N. General Assembly tomorrow.
The mayor, who previously threatened to arrest Netanyahu on an International Criminal Court warrant related to war crimes, said he doesn't have the authority to carry out the arrest — but did still accuse the Israeli leader of being the "architect of a horrific genocide against Palestinians."
Netanyahu, for his part, released a video this week falsely accusing the mayor of supporting Hamas and inciting riots against Jewish New Yorkers.
"Simply put, we screwed up": DoorDash will pay delivery workers $131.5 million as part of a settlement with New York City after underpaying or making late payments to roughly 260,000 workers.
The number of self-employed creative workers in New York City has risen 12% since 2019 while overall employment in the city's creative industries has fallen approximately 6%, according to the think tank Center For An Urban Future.
For the first time in 15 years, the New York City Marathon route is changing. (The small section of the race in the Bronx will be simplified in a way that makes it easier for locals to access a popular supermarket and laundromat.)
An NYPD detective who was disciplined in 2020 for posting a video in uniform denouncing George Floyd's killing was nearly fired for again posting to social media while in uniform, according to department records.
A woman arrested for allegedly threatening passengers on a Metro-North train last week and causing a chaotic morning commute at Grand Central Terminal has been arraigned on felony charges.
A temporary Harry Styles merch store in the East Village has been drawing massive crowds that can block the entrance to a longstanding cookbook shop a few doors down. The cookbook shop's owner isn't happy about it.
The Colosseum in Rome has temporarily closed after a 22-year-old worker who'd been installing cables high up on ropes fell to his death.
19th century gang leader Bill the Butcher isn't looking so tough in this picture of him that'll hang in the New Museum's upcoming exhibition about the Bowery.
A Brooklyn archivist discovered the lifelong collection of Hugh A. Dunne, a subway historian and collector whom the Daily News once nicknamed “Mr. Subways” for his encyclopedic subway knowledge and presence at virtually every subway crisis of his time.
The agency last week put out a request to vendors for ways to modernize the transit system’s suite of communication technology, from audio announcements to digital displays to help-point kiosks.
