Of course it’s more fun when we have a competitive general election for the New York City mayoralty. And of course, the media will try to stir things up. But I just don’t think a competitive election will happen and Zohran Mamdani will win in November. Here’s why: The Democratic nominee starts with a massive … Read more
One could argue, as his lawyers have for months, that Luis Bernier should be out of prison by now. Instead he has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples still emanating from the state prison guards strike that ended in March. Bernier, 34, is … Read more
Three men brutally attacked a 28-year-old woman in Queens, yelling anti-LGBTQ slurs at her — with one of the assailants strangling her until she lost consciousness — in what cops are investigating as a possible hate crime, according to a police source. The victim and her attackers, who knew each other, got into an argument … Read more
President Trump’s right-wing supporters have hit Zohran Mamdani with a barrage of Islamophobic hate since he stunned the political world Tuesday night by winning the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. MAGA loyalists have claimed that Mamdani might impose religious Sharia law in the Big Apple or even spark terrorism like the Sept. 11 … Read more
A Bronx man suspected of assaulting an off-duty NYPD officer and a Bronx woman who was with him as he fled were arrested in Connecticut following a wild police chase that left a state trooper injured and multiple vehicles damaged. At approximately 2:18 p.m. Wednesday, Connecticut State Police were alerted that Jonser Hernandez-Mota was traveling … Read more
An unsuspecting and innocent Montrell Williams stood next to his dad for several minutes on an expressway overpass last month before the unhinged father hoisted the toddler over the railing and into the cold, murky waters of the Bronx River below, prosecutors said Thursday. “Montrell was seen alive and standing near his father moments before … Read more
A 50-year-old man found stabbed in the back of the neck at a Greenwich Village subway station has died, police said Tuesday. The city’s medical examiner on Friday declared the death of Vincent Norman a homicide after he succumbed to his injuries at Bellevue Hospital. Transit officers were conducting an inspection at the W. Fourth … Read more
YouTuber Mikayla Raines, whose SaveAFox channel and organization focused on animal rescue, has died by suicide after years of online bullying reached a boiling point. She was 29. The activist’s husband, Ethan, announced her death Monday in an emotional video, just two days after Raines’ last post. “A couple days ago, Mikayla Raines passed away,” … Read more
President Trump dropped an F-bomb on both Israel and Iran Tuesday as he urged the warring nations to respect his fragile ceasefire to end the two-week war. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing,” Trump said as he left … Read more
New Yorkers are heading to the polls Tuesday to vote in local elections — including the hotly-contested Democratic primary for mayor — bracing a heat wave that’s projected to drive the mercury to at least 100. As of 9 a.m., nearly 99,000 New Yorkers had voted Tuesday, according to returns released by the Board of … Read more