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A 73-year-old woman was viciously beaten by a stranger in a Harlem subway station elevator after the victim complained that the attacker’s young daughter was touching her, police said Saturday. Cops have released an image of the menacing mother in the hopes that someone recognizes her. The victim told police she was taking the elevator…
It’s too late for a white Christmas, but New Yorkers could be in for a snowy post-holiday weekend. City Department of Sanitation workers are on double duty Friday, as a winter storm threatens to blanket the five boroughs with as much as 9 inches of snow. According to an advisory from the department, snow could…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China reveals radio clip heard before mid-air stand-off with Japan fighter jets China on Tuesday released more details about Saturday’s mid-air stand-off between Chinese and Japanese fighter jets, as…
Zohran Mamdani is back in New York City following his meeting with President Trump at the White House on Friday, where their unexpectedly friendly Oval Office news conference appeared to go off without a hitch. The mayor-elect spoke to reporters Sunday morning outside a church in the Bronx, where he said the high-stakes meeting with the…
Zohran Mamdani is back in New York City following his meeting with President Trump at the White House on Friday, where their unexpectedly friendly Oval Office news conference appeared to go off without a hitch. The mayor-elect spoke to reporters Sunday morning outside a church in the Bronx, where he said the high-stakes meeting with the…
After trading barbs for months through social media and the press, President Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani struck a remarkably different tone when they spoke to reporters Friday afternoon for about 30 minutes in the Oval Office following their much-anticipated White House meeting. In an astonishing shift, the two were positive and often complimentary,…
Craving a side of hottie with your next hamburger? Alyssa La Spisa’s got it on the menu. The 33-year-old Upper East Sider’s wildly popular “Where Hot Guys Eat IRL” social media series — where the content creator interviews attractive New Yorkers, asking them to reveal the bars and restaurants they frequent — has quickly become…
Washington — President Trump has called Zohran Mamdani “my little communist mayor.” Mamdani has vowed to “Trump-proof” New York City. Today, after months of heated rhetoric on both sides, the president and the mayor-elect of the nation’s biggest city will meet for the first time at the White House. Mamadani, a democratic socialist, doesn’t have…
Fashion will soon be front-and-centre at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the institution gets ready to unveil the Condé M. Nast Galleries, a nearly 12,000-sq.-ft space adjacent to the Grand Hall, next spring. Plans to turn the museum’s biggest retail space into a new home for the annual Costume Institute exhibition were first revealed…