The Queens District Attorney's office charged a Texas man on Thursday with making a terroristic threat as a hate crime against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee and a Queens Assembly member. The suspect, Jeremy Fistel, 44, stands accused of allegedly leaving a series of voicemails threatening violence against Mamdani and his family on his Assembly office phone. According to the Queens DA's office, the threats began in June, while Mamdani was running in the Democratic primary, and continued through July after he won.
Former governor David Paterson, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and former Congresswoman and City Council Members Julie Menin, Joann Ariola, Althea Stevens, Julie Won, and Gail Brewer also walked in the show. Or, in Brewer's case, crossed her arms repeatedly in a show of protest before stepping right off the runway's edge. While many wore elevated streetwear or tailored jackets-from council member's Keith Powers' cable knit coat by Tod + Tom to Executive Director of the NYC Office of Nightlife Jeffrey Garcia's
"When I left, New York was the place you wanted to be, and now people just don't speak well of it. But we're going to bring it back, and we're going to bring it back strong," Trump said of the city at a 2024 Madison Square Garden campaign rally. Since then, his administration has made big moves in New York City by dropping corruption charges against the city's mayor, fighting the city's congestion pricing program.
Another day, another DOT project killed by First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro. This time it's the Upper West Side "smart curbs" pilot, which Mastro ordered DOT to put on hold because of uproar over the conversion of 70 on-street spots from free to metered parking. Streetsblog's Kevin Duggan had the story, which West Side Rag broke first on Tuesday morning. Read Streetsblog's "take" here.
We gather here today not by choice and not because the work of the New York City Crisis Management System is not being done. We gather here today by force.
More than 68% of New York state residents surveyed said the cost of living is the most critical issue facing their household. And while clean energy promises substantial job creation, New York state is falling short of its renewable energy goals - and job opportunities in New York are distributed inequitably, as women and Black workers remain underrepresented in the industry.
A 7-year-old Queens girl and her family were arrested by ICE while attending a court hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, marking the first known instance of this happening.
Sometimes teenagers don't make good decisions. It's like touching a hot stove. You know never to touch that hot stove again, but you still have to touch the hot stove once to know that it burns. So that's where you are at here.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams insisted that the media needed to "understand what's going on right now, because I don't think this group of people agree about nothing" - yet they still don't.
