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Anthony Valles’ plan hinged on a checkpoint on Sixth Avenue. With President Donald Trump attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night, the NYPD and Secret Service had sealed off several blocks around Madison Square Garden. Anthony’s 50-year-old father Kenneth Valles — a New York native and lifelong Knicks fan — had no […]

When Erica Hill opened Sparrow Funeral Home in Greenpoint in November 2021, she did it with an aim to make it more publicly acceptable to talk about lost loved ones and grieve openly. So when she heard New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns speaking about how he felt his late mother’s presence during the NBA

For more than a year, Esly Paredes shared regular dispatches of her life as a delivery driver for Amazon to her small following on TikTok — dishing on her preferred lunch spots and fashion scores among hundreds of videos of herself hauling packages and killing time between shifts. In one April 30 post — filmed,

Knicks fever has swept the city, and Midtown is lit up blue and orange. Are you ready to watch Game 4? The New York Knicks’ fourth NBA Finals match-up with the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday will likely be another nail-biter. Do you really want to watch it crunched over your laptop? There are dozens

With more than 1 million visitors expected to descend on the city for the World Cup, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is pledging to crack down on hustlers who scam unsuspecting marks into pricey, unlicensed rides at area airports. Officials from the bi-state agency on Tuesday announced a new campaign designed

It won’t be “Knicks in four,” but the story isn’t over yet. Monday night was a letdown for fans of the hometown team, who lost to the San Antonio Spurs, 115-111, at Madison Square Garden in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. That broke the Knicks’ 13-game playoff winning streak as they look to clinch

When Brazil and Morocco face off Saturday in the first of eight World Cup matches being played across the Hudson River, New Yorkers should brace for a month’s worth of disruptions. While several 2026 World Cup contests, including the July 19 final, will be staged in the Meadowlands at the temporarily rebranded NYNJ Stadium —

Even as their finances deteriorated and the values of their buildings declined, owners of larger rent-regulated buildings saw their property taxes increase. Meanwhile, the disparity between the assessments on high-end condos and co-ops grew, giving the owners of some of the most expensive homes in the city a huge property tax break. Those two data

Scampia, a suburb in northern Naples, has long been one of the most visible symbols of urban hardship in Italy. The Vele housing complex—large public housing structures built between the 1970s and 1980s—gradually deteriorated over time and became widely associated with social marginalization and organized crime. In recent years, the area has been undergoing a