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It's Friday in New York City, where the perennially contentious question of who's a true New Yorker can now be answered.
The Department of New Yorker Verification, a website created by artist Franz Aliquo and not at all affiliated with city government, is now accepting applications and issuing free PDF certificates to people who "came of age" in the city.
Soon, Aliquo says, he'll begin issuing verifications to transplants who've racked up points based on years of residency (50 points per year) and which New York City indignities they've endured (getting bedbugs strengthens your application).
Brooklyn's district attorney is hosting an event at a church in Bed-Stuy on Saturday to clear warrants that people received after they failed to respond to a criminal summons.
The Brooklyn DA's office said the event is in response to an uptick in NYPD quality-of-life tickets that created a "staggering backlog" of such cases.
A federal judge in Manhattan has indefinitely blocked ICE agents from making arrests at immigration courthouses, ruling that the Trump administration policy authorizing the arrests was invalid.
Police said they're investigating after discovering a badly burned body in a vacant lot in Briarwood, Queens, yesterday afternoon.
Randy Mastro, an attorney hoping to overturn the city's rent freeze for stabilized apartments, is asking a judge to order top city officials and members of the Rent Guidelines Board to sit for interviews after communications they turned over to the court failed to produce clear evidence that they colluded to reach the decision not to raise rents.
The founder of Liberation Psychotherapy, an LGBTQ+ therapy practice in Manhattan, is facing sexual abuse and rape charges after he allegedly sexually assaulted two of his patients.
The new CEO of a Brooklyn shelter provider at the center of a federal corruption case says the group lacked the basic financial and compliance infrastructure to manage homeless shelters even as its city contracts ballooned during the migrant crisis.
The skinny tower at One Times Square that hosts the ball drop on New Year's Eve but otherwise sat vacant for most of the year now has tourist attractions inside.
Two City Council members yesterday paid an unauthorized visit to inspect a Queens homeless veterans shelter after the Mamdani administration turned down federal funding for the facility over concerns that the city would be required to discriminate against transgender vets.
Andrew Rannells will star in a kind of stage adaptation of "It's a Wonderful Life" on Broadway this holiday season.
A journalist's public reckoning over her daughter's education has put new pressure on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to present a more expansive vision for how to fix the city's schools, which are among the most segregated in the country.
We checked in with some fallmaxxers at the Queens County Farm Museum, where you can feed and pet animals, traipse through a pumpkin patch and navigate the city’s only corn maze.
This month brings a feast of frights to New York’s independent cinemas starring iconic slashers, demon-possessed cheerleaders, and a convent of nuns hell-bent on taking down a priest.
