Category: Manhattan
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Daily News reporters go on strike for the first time in 30 years over budget cuts
Journalists at the Daily News have walked off their respective beats for the first time in three decades on Thursday morning and are picketing in the heart of Manhattan. Photo by Dean Moses For the first time in three decades, editorial staff at the Daily News walked off the job Thursday and formed a picket…
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Taylor Swift’s alleged dumpster-diving stalker rants and raves after trespassing singer’s Tribeca townhouse again
The man who has been allegedly stalking Taylor Swift at her Tribeca townhouse over the last several months made bizarre claims as he was again taken away in cuffs on Wednesday. Photo by Dean Moses Karma got Taylor Swift’s alleged stalker again on Wednesday. The man who has allegedly been creeping around the pop singer’s…
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Community Board 1 demands hearing over proposed Lower Manhattan homeless shelter
The building where a proposed homeless shelter could come to Lower Manhattan. Photo via Google Maps Community Board 1 rebuked the Department of Homeless Services over its rollout of a lower Manhattan shelter on Tuesday. In October, the board received notification that the city is planning to open a shelter for 170 single adults experiencing…
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Bronx man charged for alleged rape of 10-year-old girl in Harlem home
Drequan Drayton-Howard, 24, apparently turned himself into police after cops were breathing down his neck. Drayton-Howard of the Bronx stands accused of raping a child after meeting her online, according to police. Photo by Dean Moses An alleged child predator accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Harlem this month found himself in handcuffs Wednesday.…
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Residents decry ‘humanitarian crisis’ at East Village migrant shelter re-ticketing center
Migrants on line at the re-ticketing center at St. Brigid School in the East Village in January 2024. File photo/Dean Moses New Yorkers and advocates for the homeless are angry, saying the city isn’t doing enough to help the hundreds of migrants lining up each day outside the East Village’s St. Brigid’s shelter reapplication center,…
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Man stabbed in Times Square after denying perp a cigarette
File photo A 31-year-old man was stabbed in Times Square after refusing to give the perp a cigarette, according to police. The victim was standing on W. 43rd Street near Seventh Avenue at around 7:30 p.m on Jan. 23, when the suspect approached and asked him for a smoke. When the victim refused, the man…
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Lower Manhattan residents, pol push for grocery stores to accept OTC cards to save on food purchases
Councilmember Christopher Marte and Lower East Side residents hold up a stack of letters addressed to supermarkets and grocery stores urging them to accept OTC cards. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann Lower Manhattan City Council Member Christopher Marte (D) and Lower East Side residents mailed over 50 letters Tuesday to grocery stores, supermarkets, and delis across…
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Clayton Patterson, ‘the godfather of Lower East Side documentary,’ seeks an angel to help tell the neighborhood’s story
Clayton Patterson is looking for an angel. He doesn’t figure on becoming one himself, but that’s not the point. He needs some help down here before he heads up there — or, he says, “wherever.” “I’m playing the endgame”, he bluntly declares. “I’m 75, I just had pneumonia, I had cancer … and all of…
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Columbia University chemical mystery: Police continue to probe foul-smelling attack on protesters
Who sprayed an unknown chemical at a recent pro-Palestine rally on the grounds of Columbia University? Police are still working to figure it out. Participants of a Jan. 19 rally on the Columbia campus began noticing a horrid stench in the air at around 1 p.m. While no 911 calls were immediately made at the…
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FIRST ON amNY: Chinatown plaza getting $55 million makeover, Mayor Adams set to announce
Chinatown’s Kimlau Plaza will get a major makeover, Mayor Eric Adams will announce in Wednesday’s State of the City address, City Hall sources told amNewYork Metro. Photo via Google Maps Mayor Eric Adams is set to announce a $55.8 million redesign of a major plaza in Manhattan’s Chinatown that aims to give the neighborhood a…