Category: Manhattan

Rachel Bloom in ‘Death, Let Me Do My Show.’ Photo by Emilio Madrid Rachel Bloom to bring back ‘Death, Let Me Do My Show’ Actress and writer Rachel Bloom, who recently brought her one-woman comedy with songs “Death, Let Me Do My Show” to the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village, will do an…

The Adams administration proposed zoning changes last week that would allow casino development across wide swaths of the city. Photo via Getty Images The Adams administration has proposed zoning changes allowing casinos to be sited in wide swaths of the city with few limits on their footprint, amid a furious bidding war for one of…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Police in East Harlem are investigating a woman’s mysterious death inside an apartment building stairwell on Monday morning. Officers from the 25th Precinct discovered the dead woman at about 11:23 a.m. on Nov. 27 while responding to a 911 call for a person needing assistance inside the AK Houses at 112 East…

Gary Goldenstein and Allison Edan shopped at Pita Grill Kosher after they feared it was the target of an antisemitic attack. Photo by Dean Moses New Yorkers flocked to a Midtown eatery after fears circulated that the kosher restaurant was vandalized in an antisemitic hate crime over the weekend. Social media posts made the rounds…

Last week, I stood in front of an elevator at Penn Station and pushed the button. It’s an ordinary act for millions of New Yorkers who do this every day — myself included — but this one felt different. For starters, it wasn’t a regular act of commuting. I was joined by fellow disability activists;…

26-year-old Mehwish Omer was arrested on Monday for hate crime charges . Photo by Dean Moses Police arrested a woman on Monday for attacking a Jewish onlooker for recording her ripping down Israeli missing person posters on the Upper West Side earlier this month. According to police sources, 26-year-old Mehwish Omer has joined her alleged…

Gunner the carriage horse recovers at the Midtown stables following his escape and collapse on Nov. 26. TWU Local 100 A carriage horse broke free of his reins and ran through the streets of Midtown before collapsing on the West Side Highway on Sunday, injuring himself and renewing calls by advocates to ban the carriage…

Police in Harlem are looking for the suspect who shot and seriously wounded a man early on Saturday morning. Law enforcement sources said the shooting occurred at about 4:45 a.m. on Nov. 25 in front of 2261 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. Officers from the 32nd Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about the…

File photo/Lloyd Mitchell A Harlem brownstone fire late on Friday night left one resident dead and three others hospitalized with serious injuries, the Fire Department reported. FDNY sources said the two-alarm blaze ignited at about 11:45 p.m. on Nov. 24 on the second floor of the four-story dwelling at 107 West 132nd St., between Lenox…

A water main break in Midtown. Photo by Dean Moses A massive water main break in Midtown sparked a rapid deluge of water that disturbed thousands of Black Friday shoppers in the afternoon, FDNY confirmed. Water gushed from cracked concrete in the roadway on West 37th Street and 7th Avenue, creating a geyser. The incident…