1+ week, 4+ day ago (30+ words) On National Coming Out Day last month, Zohran Mamdani made a direct appeal to LGBTQ voters. He released a video tribute to Sylvia Rivera, an icon of the 1970s trans ......

3+ week, 4+ day ago (125+ words) A high stakes and tumultuous New York City mayoral election comes to an end this evening, with polls across the five boroughs closing at 9 pm. Going into the final day, most polls showed Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the lead, with independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in second place. Over the last several days, Cuomo has targeted conservatives and Republican voters in an effort to close the gap by taking votes from GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa. Interest in the race has been extraordinarily high, with more than 735,000 voters casting ballots during early voting. Tonight, New York decides. Follow along here for real time updates on numbers as they come in and what is happening in the field as the candidates await the results:...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago (32+ words) Fifty years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a patriotic New York liberal, led the West's fight against the UN's Zionism is racism resolution. Moynihan called this assault ......

3+ week, 5+ day ago (29+ words) We come from two faiths often cast as opposites and from two different immigrant journeys to this country. We write together because New York is being torn apart " not ......

3+ week, 5+ day ago (19+ words) Up-to-the-minute NYC election results, including the mayoral race with Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani, and Curtis Sliwa....

3+ week, 5+ day ago (29+ words) We come from two faiths often cast as opposites and from two different immigrant journeys to this country. We write together because New York is being torn apart " not ......

3+ day, 19+ hour ago (515+ words) Seven people were shot within four hours during an explosion of pre-Thanksgiving gun violence, police said Thursday. The bullets started flying around 7:20 p.m. Wednesday when gunfire broke out along a popular downtown Brooklyn shopping strip near the corner of Fulton and Jay Sts., hitting a young man and woman, both 18, in the legs, officials said. EMS rushed the pair to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist, where both are expected to recover. The gunman argued with the couple before pulling his weapon, witnesses told police. Roughly two hours later, around 9:40 p.m., two men were shot on Ryer Ave. in the Fordham section of the Bronx. One victim, 23, was shot in the left foot. The other, 22, was hit in the right thigh. Both were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital with minor injuries. The gunman ran off. The shooting, officials said, happened near a basketball…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (597+ words) With less than two months to go in his term, Mayor Adams met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, drawing a contrast with his successor, Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to direct the NYPD to arrest the PM if he sets foot in New York under his administration. In an interview with the right-wing Israel Hayom newspaper before his sitdown with Netanyahu, Adams even encouraged the Israeli leader to come to New York for Mamdani's Jan. 1 inauguration. "I believe the prime minister should visit the city. I think he should start with the inauguration ceremony of Mamdani in the presence of the City Council on January 1 to send a strong message to the largest Jewish community outside Israel," Adams is quoted as saying. "He needs to make clear to the entire community that he will continue visiting the city…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (975+ words) Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, becoming the youngest man picked to lead the five boroughs in modern history in what is widely seen as watershed moment for his party's surging left wing. Mamdani " who will now take office Jan. 1 as the youngest mayor in well over a century " was expected to address a crowd at his election night party in Brooklyn late Tuesday night. Cuomo, who campaigned as an independent, didn't immediately comment. Curtis Sliwa, the Republican mayoral nominee clinched third place in the race, according to unofficial tabulations. Mamdani's victory was propelled by nearly record-setting levels of voter participation, with more than 2 million New Yorkers casting ballots in Tuesday's election " the highest turnout in a local race since at least the 1969 mayoral contest. Marking the conclusion of the most high-octane New York…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (328+ words) The suspect, described as between 20 and 25 years old, sporting long red hair, a tattoo on her right forearm and a black crop top, fled the scene after Jontay Davis, 21, was shot twice in the head inside a vehicle around 2 a.m. on Sept. 2, cops said. Police found Davis behind St. Barnabas Hospital and rushed him inside but he could not be saved, cops said. Xavier Kearney, 23, was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon Monday in connection with Davis's shooting. He was ordered held without bail Tuesday at his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court. On Sept. 11, nine days after the shooting, cops nabbed Desean Edwards, 22, who was also ordered held without bail after being charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Kearney lives in Soundview, in the Bronx, and Edwards lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn, cops said. The two…...