1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (311+ words) “Chess” will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 21 at the Imperial Theatre, with Lea Michele still starring as Florence Vassy. The move suggests that the producers chose not to test whether “Chess” could continue without Michele amid declining…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (535+ words) Delaney Hall, the New Jersey detention center where ICE is holding immigrants from the New York City area under what have been described as inhumane conditions, was sealed off Sunday after another night of chaotic protests. Yet tensions remained high…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1220+ words) Tires screech down a neon-lit street as the opening notes of Tokyo Drift by Teriyaki Boyz blare in the background. A chorus chants: “1DERZ if you know ONE OR EIGHT in Tokyo. If you seen it, then you mean it. Then…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (866+ words) When the New York Knicks won the NBA Cup in December, ownership made it clear that they wouldn’t hang a banner from the rafters at Madison Square Garden. Instead, they wanted to wait until their team played for the Larry…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (672+ words) This Sunday, New York’s annual Israel Day Parade will celebrate a flawed but remarkable country offering refuge to a people that, for millennia, faced persecution in the lands of others. As in recent years, they will do so despite numerous…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (722+ words) Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Friday barring law enforcement officers — including federal agents — to wear masks while interacting with the public in New York, part of a broader immigration package aimed at restricting ICE operations in the state. The…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (985+ words) The crowd was eager before Mayor Zohran Mamdani said a word. Hundreds packed the Hostos Community College auditorium on Thursday evening, many wearing hats that read “The Rent Is Too Damn High” in Mamdani’s trademark yellow and red. The Students…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (622+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing democratic socialist challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier over U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the June Democratic primary — marking a dramatic break from an incumbent who had supported him after last year’s mayoral primary. Mamdani endorsed Avila Chevalier…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (224+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani fired NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda and replaced him with retired NYPD Lieutenant Edwin Raymond, multiple sources said on Thursday. Raymond, who was with the NYPD for 15 years, wrote a book called “An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (697+ words) As the Trump administration moves forward with its secretive Penn Station redevelopment plan, federal lawmakers last week approved a legislative amendment that may let it leverage local tax revenues to finance the purportedly $8 billion project. The amendment would allow Amtrak…...