The presidential seal with Donald Trump’s name is featured prominently on a wall just inside the Grand Entrance proposed for the Eighth Ave. side of Pennsylvania Station. ( Photo: Penn Transformation Partners) Is Criticism of Trump Overriding Plans for Penn Station? Andy Byford is up to his eyeballs in every aspect of transforming Penn Station, from how trains enter and leave the station... Voices 11 Jul 2026 | 07:33
The 14th Amendment has ensured birthright citizenship since 1868 and the Supreme Court upheld that provision, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump who had railed against the law for more than a decade. The amendment guarantees people born on U.S. soil are citizens, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status. ( Photo: Courtesy of ACLU of Massachusetts) Birthright Citizenship Upheld As Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Proposed Limits The Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s attempts to limit birthright citizenship handing the administration a... News 07 Jul 2026 | 03:53
Secret Service officers patrolling the stadium before the lockdown. ( Photo: Will Thalhimer) New York Knicks Game 3 Watch Party Scuttled as Frozen Zone Surrounds MSG for Trump Visit Barriers were set out on the streets and sidewalks surrounding Madison Square Garden in anticipation of Game Three of the... News 08 Jun 2026 | 06:33
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room pop-up opened in a Tribeca gallery on May 8. ( Photo: Anna Maria Lopez) 3.5 Million Jeffrey Epstein Files on Exhibit at Tribeca Pop-up Inside a small Tribeca gallery, rows of shelves lining the wall hold over 17,000 pounds of some of the most contentious documents... News 13 May 2026 | 04:28
Handwritten signs proclaiming “No Ice” and “No Kings” were in abundance, as were American flags, some flying upside down in a symbol of international distress. ( Photo: Philip Maier) Manhattan “No Kings” Rally Protests Trump, War, ICE & More Thousands of protesters railed against President Donald Trump, marching down 7th Avenue in Manhattan for over four hours... News 01 Apr 2026 | 09:46
Writer Objects to Trump’s Department of War Donald Trump is calling the Department of Defense what it has become under his reign: the Department of War. Diplomacy has... Voices 08 Sep 2025 | 12:48
The plan advanced by the Grand Penn Community Alliance would erect a new façade as a grand entrance leading into Penn Station. The alliance be on the brink of picking up some deep-pocketed backers from South Korea. ( Design: Draw Global/Visuals: Illuminaric Creative) South Korean Firms Want to Invest Billions in Rebuild of Penn Station As part of South Korea’s new trade deal with the Trump administration, Korean industrialists are offering to invest in the... News 23 Aug 2025 | 08:10
A marcher is carried away by police officers at an anti-ICE protest in Lower Manhattan, June 10, 2025. ( Photo: Alex Krales/THE CITY) NYPD Arrests Dozens as Thousands of New Yorkers Join L.A. in Protesting ICE Raids Thousands of New Yorkers flooded the streets of Lower Manhattan the evening of June 10 protesting the Trump administration’s... News 11 Jun 2025 | 11:36
WNBC streamed the first major New York City Democratic mayoral debate, June 4, 2025. ( Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY) NYC Mayoral Candidates Battle Each Other — and Trump — in Chaotic Nine-Way Debate The nine Democratic candidates for mayor squared off Wednesday in the first televised debate of a long campaign season, with... News 05 Jun 2025 | 05:33
The seventh-floor offices where the Church World Service housed its NYC HQ sit empty after a fund freeze by the Trump administration forced the refugee relief organization to lay off over 150 staffers in the city. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Immigrant Aid Group Forced to Lay Off over 150 Workers in NYC Church World Service, a not-for-profit that assists refugees and asylum seekers and provides international disaster relief,... News 28 Feb 2025 | 04:56
President Trump stirred controversy this week when he posted “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” on Truth Social, as well as the official White House X account and Instagram, using a mock Time magazine depicting him wearing a golden crown. ( Photo: White House X) What Does It Mean? It is unlikely that James Madison, when he was writing the Federalist Papers for publication in New York in 1788, contemplated... Voices 21 Feb 2025 | 01:00
Mayor Adams at a press conference on Jan. 7. In an address on Feb. 12 he said he never broke the law and never instructed staffers to do so. He took no questions after the Feb. 12 address. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Justice Dept. Orders Fed Prosecutors to Drop Corruption Case Against Mayor Adams The Trump Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to drop the five-count... News 13 Feb 2025 | 11:12
A group of migrant students waits for a bus across from the Stewart Hotel shelter in Midtown on the way to school, Jan. 24, 2025. ( Photo: Alex Krales/THE CITY) ‘Everyone Is Scared’: Deportation Fears Keep Immigrant Students Home from School Hallways at the Stewart Hotel, a midtown Manhattan shelter for migrant families, are typically bustling on weekday mornings... News 28 Jan 2025 | 12:02
Mayor Eric Adams said the Democratic party’s failure to identify immigration as a major concern for voters cost the party in the Nov. 5 election. He said he was “not surprised” by the outcome. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Adams: Dems Misread Mood on Immigration and “Not Surprised” by Republican Gains When asked about Republican gains in the city at a recent press conference, Mayor Eric Adams said, “It doesn’t surprise me”... News 16 Nov 2024 | 08:53
For local Democrats, it may feel like the circus is back in Washington D.C. with Donald Trump ready to ascend to the White House once again. ( Photo: KMJ/Wikimedia Commons) How the Political Landscape Shifts for NYC After Trump Win “It’s tough to make predictions–especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra For those Democrats looking for a silver lining... Voices 15 Nov 2024 | 02:50
