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A hole opened on a crumbling sidewalk near Battery Park that briefly gave passersby a peephole into the subway - and a reality check about how thin the ground actually is. The baseball-sized hole in the asphalt of Battery Place and State Street opened sometime last week, according to a hair-raising Instagram video, but it has since been covered with an orange traffic cone bolted to the ground.

The boiler inside the Bronx NYCHA complex that partially collapsed on Wednesday was being repaired just a day before the incident, according to the Department of Buildings. Officials said it happened at 205 Alexander Ave., where the Mitchel Houses are located, just after 8 a.m. A ventilation shift collapsed after an explosion in the boiler room of the building. Parents were walking their children to the school located across the street when the explosion happened. No injuries were reported, according to authorities.

Sales closed at a greater clip than listings hit the market, marking the third consecutive quarter where transactions outpaced inventory. It's not blazing, but the market is slowly getting faster, said report author Jonathan Miller. Buyers and sellers notched 3,100 deals in the third quarter, marking a 13 percent uptick from the same period last year. During the same time frame, the number of active listings rose 7 percent from roughly 7,200 to 7,700.

For the first time Wednesday, prosecutors also released security camera footage of the chaotic gunfight, which unfolded Aug. 17 inside the Taste of City Lounge in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The video showed patrons scrambling for cover as bullets ricocheted across the densely-packed club, with at least 40 shots fired from five guns, prosecutors said.

Soon after Zohran Mamdani secured the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, Amanda Litman posted a video selfie on TikTok. "The dinosaurs of the past, the boomers, the hostile managers, the assholes-they are behind us," she preached to the camera. If viewers felt inspired to "run to take on the status quo," they should head to her organization's website and register.

The Council's message when it ignores the custom of member deference seems to be: See? We're not provincial, turf-protecting insiders! We act in the interest of the whole city! But we're talking about four instances in two decades, if not longer. The Council has considered thousands of land use applications in that time, and in 99.9 percent of them, the local member has decided the result. Make no mistake: Member deference is alive and well.

CIG was established in 1869 with the American Museum of Natural History. Its institutions operate in city-owned buildings and receive financial support from the city, including for capital investment. A number of the city's museums are part of the program, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, the Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Queens Museum.

New York City saw the lowest number of shootings and shooting victims in its recorded history through the first nine months of 2025, continuing a nearly two-year decline in major crime, city officials announced Wednesday. Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said shootings, murders, robberies, and other major crimes have fallen to levels not seen in decades, capping the city's seventh straight quarter of overall crime reduction since January 2024.

"While book borrowing is central to QPL's mission, it represents only one dimension of our work," explained Lisi de Bourbon, a spokesperson for the Queens system. "The growth in library card registrations, and use of e-content, computers and Wi-Fi reflect the growing demand for these services in New York City. Even when a card is not used for traditional borrowing, it provides access to a wide range of resources that advance equity, opportunity, and community connection."

The permit was initially granted in August to allow Waymo to test its robotaxis in the city until the end of September. The terms of the extended permit are the same: Waymo can deploy up to eight of its Jaguar I-Pace vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn with a human safety operator behind the wheel. A spokesperson for Waymo said the permit makes the company's drivers exempt from New York's rules mandating they keep one hand on the wheel at all times.

BROOKLYN, NY - City investigators are probing a string of recent deaths in NYPD custody, officials revealed during a City Council hearing this week. The investigation, led by the Department of Investigation's Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD, comes amid growing concern from lawmakers and advocates about the lack of transparency surrounding more than 50 in-custody deaths since early 2023. Advocacy groups say these deaths highlight deeper systemic issues within the department's approach to policing and detention.

Marie F. Bayles, 88, of Normal, IL, passed away on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. Born on Staten Island on May 20, 1937, she married Elmer E. Bayles on June 2, 1956, at St. Mary's of Rosebank. A graduate of New Dorp High School, she worked as a bookkeeper and accountant clerk. She was an avid genealogist and Girl Scout leader for 10 years.

The incident occurred around 3:50 p.m. as fire personnel responded to a report of a smoking manhole at Richmond Avenue and Arthur Kill Road, according to an FDNY spokesperson. Con Edison was notified and the FDNY departed the scene around 4:15 p.m., the spokesperson said. Crews for Con Edison were seen at the intersection investigating the situation that Allan Drury, a spokesman for the utility company, said was likely caused by a failure in the underground power delivery system.

Transit police are investigating a stabbing on board a Bronx subway train Tuesday night that left a man seriously injured. According to police sources, the incident took place at around 10:42 p.m. on Sept. 30 on a northbound 4 train at the 149 Street-Grand Concourse station. While authorities did not give a motive for the attack, they say a male suspect attacked the victim, a 26-year-old man, as the train pulled into the station.

The ad, titled Things Can Change, opens with a woman speaking directly to the camera on a city street, saying: I used to love New York, but now it's just where I live. It then turns to footage of other New Yorkers watching Mamdani's primary win on their TVs and phones. New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford, Mamdani says in voiceover. We'll freeze the rent, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal child care,

The idea is to honor Ginsburg's life and legacy with a piece that's as enduring as her words from the bench. The call for entries is intentionally broad: While you could propose a statue, organizers are just as open to installations, interactive works or even something abstract, as long as it captures her values-integrity, dignity, resilience and, of course, her razor-sharp use of language.

According to the charges, on July 24, at around 9 a.m., an NYPD lieutenant was out on an unrelated assignment when he saw the charred remains of a dog on the street in front of 127-20 116th Ave. in South Ozone Park. The NYPD's Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) were notified, and an investigation was launched.