As he named a new schools chancellor Wednesday, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reversed course on a key but controversial campaign promise: to end mayoral control of the New York City public schools. “I will be asking the Legislature for a continuation of mayoral control,” Mamdani said during a news conference in northern Central Park to formally…
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…
The gunman wanted for shooting three innocent bystanders near a Brooklyn hospital was aiming for a group of teens gathered for a fight with his girlfriend’s daughter, police said Thursday. Allan Joseph, 52, was busted Wednesday night when officers ran the license plate on his Chevy Equinox because it was is a no-standing zone near…
Melanie Sepulveda, a Staten Island teacher, had her doubts about the new “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban in New York schools. In the past, she watched students drift through the hallways at I.S. 27 Anning S. Prall, looking at their phones and feet. Some pre-teens, entrusted with bathroom passes, filmed TikTok videos outside her English classroom where…
A pro-Palestinian protester splattered red paint across the Greenwich Village home of the New York Times executive editor early Friday, police said. The red paint was found on the front steps, walls, sidewalk and lamps outside the entrance to the swanky apartment building on Fifth Ave. near E. 11th St. at about 3 a.m. on…
The son of “Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus was busted Saturday morning for assault in Manhattan, cops said. Mingus Reedus, 25, was charged with assault and criminal obstruction of breathing after cops responded to a 911 call of an assault around 8:40 a.m. at W. 16th St. and Eighth Ave. in Chelsea, where they found…
As the lifeguards prepared to end their shift, a 77-year-old Russian grandmother visiting her family in Brooklyn was having such a good time at Manhattan Beach Park she called her daughter and told her to hold off on picking her up. “It’s breezy. It’s good weather,” Liudmila Marchenko told her daughter. “”Give me an hour.” Minutes…
Three people, including an innocent 65-year-old man, were hospitalized early Saturday after a teen triggerman blasted away at a rival in Times Square, officials said. NYPD officers monitoring the Crossroads of the World who heard the shots raced over and apprehended the suspected shooter, a 17-year-old boy, following the 1:20 a.m. shooting at the corner…
A high-ranking MS-13 member on Long Island will spend 68 years behind bars for his role in eight murders, including ordering the brutal 2016 slayings of two teenage girls as revenge for a high school brawl. Alexi Saenz, 30, was “the driving force behind a devastating crime wave that terrorized that community for over a…