Julie Menin said she has pledges of 37 votes, more than enough to secure her election as speaker of the City Council come January. She will be the first Jewish Council member to hold the job. ( Photo: Courtesy Julie Menin campaign) Julie Menin Declares Victory in City Council Speaker Race Upper East Side City Council Member Julie Menin said she has secured 37 votes, more than enough to be elected to speaker... News 01 Dec 2025 | 12:35
New York City Mayor Eric Adams swears in Jessica Tisch as the next commissioner of the New York City Police Department on Nov. 25, 2024. Tisch, a billionaire heiress, is a well-known philanthropist for Jewish causes who often wears a Star of David at public appearances. ( Photo: Michael Appleton / Mayor’s Office) Why Jessica Tisch Agreed to Stay on as Top Cop under Mamdani NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who has served a year as the city’s top cop under Mayor Eric Adams, emailed the entire police... News 21 Nov 2025 | 03:12
Daily News Union rally Oct. 29, 2025: left to right, News union rep Evan Simko-Bednarski, News Guild New York President Susan DeCarava, and City Council member Carmen De La Rosa, who chairs the Council’s labor committee. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Daily News Union Ratifies Contract with Owner, Alden Global Capital After three years without a contract, three politician-supported rallies this past summer and fall, and multiple other acts... News 20 Nov 2025 | 02:18
Once again Gale Brewer, the formidable UWS City Council member, drew no opponents in her race in CD6 on Nov. 4. ( Photo: Flickr / Wikimedia Commons) Brewer, Salaam Draw No Opponents, Win CD Races While Democrats cruised to victory up and down Manhattan, two City Council members had a particularly easy time. Gale Brewer... News 05 Nov 2025 | 03:18
Kevin Mulligan, owner of The Laurels Cafe, huddles with building landlord Josef Yusuf Bildirici on Oct. 26 after a fire erupted in the basement of the restaurant,m at Second Avenue and East 14th Street. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Passerby Sees Smoke, Saves Beloved East Vllage Café It was the quick thinking of a woman waiting for a bus that saved The Laurels Cafe. She spotted smoke coming from the basement... News 02 Nov 2025 | 11:23
A man was not expected to survive after being struck by a northbound Q train on Halloween evening just after 5:30 p.m. at the 63rd and Lexington Avenue station. Police are handling it as an attempted suicide. ( Photo: Citizen) Halloween Horror: Man Critical After Being Struck by Subway on UES A suicidal man was pulled by first responders from under the Q northbound train at just after 5:30 p.m. in a Halloween horror... News 02 Nov 2025 | 12:50
Any voters who are still wavering when it comes time to cast their ballot, will have to hunt to find independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. He’s polling as the number two, but because he’s an independent on the Fight and Deliver line, he’s the eighth candidate in the line-up. Two candidates who said they dropped out, Jim Walden and Eric Adams are ahead of him in the lineup. ( Photo: Vote NYC) Cuomo Buried in 8th Slot on Ballot Line May Not Get Much Boost From Adams Endorse New Yorkers have begun to vote for a new mayor but the last minute endorsement by Eric Adams last week for Andrew Cuomo is... News 27 Oct 2025 | 07:05
Construction worker Jorge Sanchez died when he fell 60 feet into a tunnel at the Gateway Project at 30th Street and Eleventh Avenue on Oct. 23. His family says the hardworking family man always had a smile on his face. ( Photo: GoFundMe) Worker Killed in Fatal Fall at Gateway Tunnel Always Had Smile on Face, Says Family The heartbroken daughter of a 52-year-old construction worker who was killed when he plunged 60 feet into a tunnel at the... News 27 Oct 2025 | 05:45
A U-Haul delivery van allegedly driven by an 86-year-old man came to a halt on East 57th St. on Oct. 21, but not before hitting two cars, driving onto the sidewalk and crushing three mail relay boxes, knocking over a LinkNYC wifi kiosk, and hitting a fire hydrant. Also, a female pedestrian was hit by the falling bus sign. ( Photo: Citizen) Elderly Driver Unleashes Chaos in E. 57th St. Crash, Injures 3 An 86-year-old driver of a U-Haul minivan unleashed a Rube Goldberg-ish afternoon of chaos when police said he rear-ended... News 24 Oct 2025 | 11:55
The Trump administration has forced DOT to pause its plans to convert 34th Street into a car-free busway by year end. ( Photo: NYC DOT) Trump Admin Forces DOT to Hit Pause on 34th St. Busway Plan The Trump administration has stepped up its offensive against New York City transportation projects and ordered the NYC Department... News 19 Oct 2025 | 06:36
Before the rains came, their was a memorial service and laying of wreath at Colombus Circle to remember fallen first responders. Among those in attendance (front row, from left) the Italian Consul General Fabrizio DiMichele, Margo Catsimatides, Joe Moglis (Grand Marshall) and Fabrizio Michelassi, MD and chief of surgery at NY Presbyterian. ( Photo: Columbus Citizen Foundation) Nor’easter KOs Columbus Day Parade But Plenty of Italian Heritage Celebrated Joe Moglia, a hard-charging one-time football coach at Fordham Prep turned Wall Street executive who became chairman and... News 14 Oct 2025 | 01:53
Supporters of the hostages gathered in Central Park on Oct. 12 anxiously awaiting news from Gaza. The last of the 20 surviving hostages were released on Oct. 13. ( Photo: CombatAntisemitism X) Politicos Join in Relief with Jewish Community here over Hostage Release The release of the 20 living hostages that had been held by Hamas sent a long awaited wave of relief through the Jewish community... News 13 Oct 2025 | 05:36
Ebba Morina, one of two teens killed in a subway surfing incident, lived on the UES. She and a friend, Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, boarded a J train and were struck by a low-hanging beam as the train crossed the Williamsburg Bridge. ( Photo: Farenga Brothers Funeral Home) UES Teen Was One of Victims in Subway Surfing Death Two teens were killed in a subway-surfing incident after climbing atop a Brooklyn-bound J train on Oct. 4, and one of them... News 13 Oct 2025 | 01:09
Andrew Cuomo ( Photo: YouTube) New Poll Shows Cuomo Surging But Still Trails Mamdani Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo surged by 10 percentage points in the first major poll to be released since Eric Adams... News 11 Oct 2025 | 11:34
At the unveiling of Malachy McCourt Lane on the corner of West 93rd Street and West End Ave. ( Photo: Kirk Kelly) The Hanging of Malachy McCourt Draws Hundreds Normally a street corner naming might attract a few friends and family and a some local political leaders. Not so with Malachy... News 09 Oct 2025 | 12:13
