Candidates in four competitive congressional races are making their last-ditch pleas to New Yorkers, with election-day polls open until 9 p.m. The last time voters saw as many contested primaries was in 2012, when redistricting cut the number of seats allotted to New York City and scrambled district lines. Mayor Zohran Mamdani was 20 years […]

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Grieving relatives of a teenage tourist killed in a Central Park horse carriage crash last week pleaded Monday with Mayor Zohran Mamdani to immediately shut down the industry on the eve of the rides resuming. Days after the death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan, his loved ones called the planned Tuesday return of the rides in […]

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New voters failed to show up at the polls during early voting for New York City’s June primary election amid overall low turnout. Only 172,743 New Yorkers cast ballots in the nine-day early voting period that ended Sunday.  Of that number, only 11,573 ballots were cast by new — and generally younger — voters, New […]

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As the Mamdani administration works toward what it says is a more equitable distribution of homeless shelters throughout the city, advocates in neighborhoods with multiple facilities are going to court to stop the city from adding more to their plate. Fourteen residents of Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights in Brooklyn filed lawsuits recently, claiming the […]

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I’m using more nonfiction than I ever did before. There’s the old wheeze, “write what you know.” I must have spent about 45 years writing about what I don’t know and that worked out okay, but I figured I’ve had some interesting experiences. If they’re not interesting enough, I can always embellish them a little bit, […]

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