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Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to turn out Thursday in Lower Manhattan for the New York Knicks’ inaugural ticker-tape parade celebrating the team’s first NBA championship in 53 years. Security will be tight, with more than 10,000 NYPD officers assigned to the event, according to police officials. Viewing pens along the parade route […]

Twenty-one New Yorkers died last year as a direct result of heat — the highest number of such fatalities in a decade. And nearly 500 New Yorkers on average die annually from causes related to heat, with the vast majority occurring on days that may not raise alarms for city dwellers: hot, but not sweltering,

It’s one of the most expensive congressional races, in one of the wealthiest districts in the country, with more than half a dozen candidates vying for the seat. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent – sometimes from the candidates’ own pockets – to overcome voter apathy.  But in NY-12, which covers a wide

Knicks fever has overtaken the city. Suburbanites aren’t safe either. Gabrielle, born in New York City, raised on Long Island, and now raising her kids in Westchester, has a severe case — and there’s no question she’ll be at the team’s ticker-tape parade. To guarantee it, she’s paying $750 to have someone hold her spot

Democrats on the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security held a forum in Newark on Wednesday highlighting the grim medical conditions facing detainees inside Delaney Hall detention center following weeks of national scrutiny.  The facility, operated by the prison contractor GEO Group through a 15-year, $1 billion contract, has become a flash point for the

A week ago, Noureddine Bitat watched helplessly on West 36th Street as rowdies trashed his yellow taxi following a Knicks win — and worried about how he would keep making a living. “The crowd was really wild,” he said in Arabic through a translator. “I was scared.” On Wednesday, the father of three sat in

An upscale fashion designer allegedly stole approximately $54,000 in unpaid wages from nine  employees at her Garment District atelier, according to a 16-count indictment unveiled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Wednesday. Andrea Mary Marshall, the founder of Salon 1884, was arraigned Wednesday morning in Manhattan Supreme Court, according to the district attorney’s office.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Teachers union officials filed a lawsuit this week to block Success Academy, New York City’s largest charter network, from handing one of its charters to CEO Eva Moskowitz’s husband. Eric Grannis, Moskowitz’s spouse, is planning to use that charter to open Strive Charter School,

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will give the ceremonial key to the city to New York Knicks players on Thursday following a ticker-tape parade that’s expected to draw record crowds. He’ll debut a newly-designed key that focuses on the city’s nickname as The Big Apple, incorporating a touch of the mayor’s own campaign aesthetic.  It’s the first

One day, New Yorkers will talk about sunset-colored, bucket-shaped subway seats the same way they do the 9 train, $2.50 bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches, and Metro Cards. But on Wednesday, the commuters’ amber-toned reprieve will be celebrated with artwork – from oil paintings to tattoos – at the New York Transit Museum in its