New York City

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg started off 2025 with rocky news. His successful hush money case against Donald Trump was reduced to an unconditional discharge. The case made him into the highest profile district attorneys in the country and a boogeyman for conservative pundits. It also teed Bragg up in overwhelmingly Democratic Manhattan for a strong shot at reelection after a first term marred by controversy and numerous calls for the governor to take the extraordinary step of removing from office.

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"We only have one car," the victim's tearful wife, a public school teacher, said. "He didn't want a second car. He loved that scooter. He went to work on it. The only thing he didn't use it for was to transport the kids." "He had it for a while," she added. "He loved it. I was like, 'We need a second car. We have two kids now.' And he's like, 'We don't need it.'"

The caught-on-video arson attack was one of the city's most shocking and disturbing subway slaughters - made all the more horrific by the number of straphangers who failed to come to Kawam's aid. Surveillance and mobile phone footage show the killer watching Kawam burn, then sitting casually on a subway bench as first responders arrived at the scene.

Over a dozen teenagers gathered in the fenced-off courtyard of Harlem's Peace Cafe on a Thursday evening after school. As the young men warmed up with jumping jacks and sit-ups, Josh Marte, their youth mentor, hung up the punching bag and laid out Everlast boxing gloves over a banner that read, "I AM PEACE." The lesson wasn't only about self-defense: Marte talked to the group about regulating emotions, building a brotherhood, and de-escalating violence in their neighborhood.

The segment, which has been reviewed by The Verge, is a little shy of 14 minutes long. It features video of men, chained and bent double, being "paraded in front of cameras, pushed onto buses, and delivered to CECOT," according to the segment's narration. One former detainee, who CBS met in Colombia, said he was told he was "the living dead" at CECOT.

The double-decker Christmas Carousel at Greeley Square is officially in its last stretch, with fewer than two weeks left to ride before it packs up for the season. Located at 33rd Street and Broadway, just steps from Herald Square and Macy's holiday chaos, the festive ride is one of those unique winter attractions that feels delightfully out of scale with everyday city life.

A subway conductor was beaten and robbed of her train keys while on the job in Brooklyn, cops announced on Monday. The victim, a 31-year-old woman, was leaning out of a train car on the southbound A and C trains platform at the Hoyt St.-Schermerhorn St. station in Downtown Brooklyn when the thief attacked around 2:47 p.m. Sunday, cops said. The crook punched the victim, took her train keys and then fled the station, said police.

By packing the Rent Guidelines Board with members of his choosing, Mayor Eric Adams has made his move to derail Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's campaign promise to freeze rents for the city's 1 million rent stabilized households. With few exceptions, the Board's five public members generally control the outcome of the annual guideline setting process. One public member, Alex Armlovich, will serve out a term lasting through 2026.

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On May 28, 2024, Lenore Elfand, the owner of Empire Cannabis Club, an unlicensed dispensary in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, received a frantic call from an employee. NYPD officers and deputies from the city's Sheriff's Office were lined up at the door, poised to raid the shop. Elfand said in an affidavit that when her security guard insisted on filming, officers placed him in handcuffs, killed the security cameras, and stormed in.

A Bronx murder suspect died of an apparent allergic reaction suffered while incarcerated on Rikers Island Sunday afternoon making him the 15th inmate of the troubled detention center to perish this year. Kyron Randall, 33, became ill at about 12:10 p.m. on Dec. 21 while in custody at the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island. According to the Correction Department, Randall allegedly suffered what is believed to be an allergic reaction.

An astonishing number of national chains, 18, shuttered all of their shops in the five boroughs. The total number of chain stores across the five boroughs fell for the sixth time in the past eight years-declining 1.3 percent citywide, or a net loss of 112 stores since last year, according to the Center for an Urban Future's annual State of the Chains 2025 report on December 17.

The MTA is modifying service on the city's subways, buses, and commuter rails for Christmas and New Year's. The subways and buses will both follow a Sunday schedule on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, this Thursday and next, according to the transit agency. On the day of Christmas Eve, Wednesday, the subways will run regular weekday service. Bus routes across Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens will operate on reduced weekday schedules on both the days of Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

The emotional parents of a Queens man who was shot and killed in front of them by police officers early on Sunday morning challenged the NYPD's narrative of the deadly encounter on Monday. Kevin Fray and Sheanette Dunbar, the parents of Chez Fray, joined civil rights leader Rev. Kevin McCall outside of the 101st Precinct stationhouse in Far Rockaway on the afternoon of Dec. 22. Dunbar clung to McCall and howled in pain, Fray gritted his teeth and sobbed uncontrollably.

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) voted overwhelmingly on Monday to authorize a strike for 20,000 nurses in NYC a move made just two weeks before their contract expires. The nurses, all from private hospitals throughout the five boroughs, cited staffing issues, safety concerns, fair wages and other reasons for considering a strike. The union's vote on Dec. 22 now gives its bargaining committees the authority to call a strike if a contract that protects safe patient care is not settled by the end of the year.

There will be a little wintry intrigue early this week, though. A fast-moving clipper system is expected to slide through tonight into Tuesday, bringing a brief burst of snow across parts of the state. Upstate and higher-elevation regions could see some accumulation, especially east of Lake Ontario, in the Tug Hill Plateau and the Adirondacks, where several inches are possible.

According to law enforcement sources, the 40-year-old victim was on a southbound R train at around 2 a.m. on Dec. 20 when the attack occurred. Police said the victim and suspect started arguing on the train when the situation escalated to violence. After an exchange of words, the suspect whipped out a knife and stabbed the victim multiple times in the torso and left leg.

The outgoing New York City Council used its last meeting of the 2024-2025 session on Thursday to pass landmark legislation expanding permitting and agency support for street vendors, affordable housing policy and worker protection laws. When you think about issues that affect working-class New Yorkers, this is a day to be proud of, said new Council Member Harvey Epstein. We're talking about worker protections, opportunities for more affordable housingThese are real ways to manage the affordability crisis, keep people in their homes

"We strongly support efforts to provide New Yorkers with world-class public transit," they wrote. "This bill does the opposite by raising MTA operating costs and constraining the MTA's ability to implement modern operating methods, adopt new technologies, and provide better service for riders."