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The Ginsburgs of Valhalla: Westchester’s Architect-Builder Asks Yonkers for a Bridge and Mount Vernon for Time
Sixty-three years after Martin Ginsburg and his brother bought a lot in Greenburgh, Ginsburg Development Companies is pressing two deals at once:…
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Trunk-or-Treat on Knickerbocker: Police Say a Drunk Driver Hit Six at the 83rd Precinct’s Halloween Party
Police say Michael Marsh, 56, of Crown Heights, drove onto the sidewalk during the 83rd Precinct’s Halloween “Trunk-or-Treat” in Bushwick on Oct.…
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The Deli That Sold Nothing: Eight Indicted in a $7 Million SNAP Skim
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Investigation Commissioner Nadia Shihata say eight people used card skimmers, cloned EBT cards and merchant accounts…
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Just Salad Crosses the Harlem: A Midtown Lunch Habit Lands on Fordham Road
The fast-casual chain born in Midtown in 2006 opened its first Bronx store at 446 E. Fordham Road, and celebrated with a…
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Mamdani to ICE: Get Off Our Lots, or See You in Court
In a letter sent Nov. 2 to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and two top ICE officials, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said federal agents have been staging operations from city-owned parking lots in Van Cortlandt Park and beside Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and he threatened to…
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On Navy Street, 1,502 Apartments and a Neighborhood Asking What It Gets
Alloy Development wants two towers of 73 and 63 stories across from the Farragut Houses, with a new school and $470 million in promised benefits. The land-use hearing showed how far apart the two sides of the street remain.
By Esme Varnum · Oct. 31, 2026
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Doughnuts, Hecklers and the Working Families Line: How the First Weekend of Early Voting Played in New York
Mayor Mamdani voted for Governor Hochul on the Working Families line and brought Dunkin’ for the poll workers. Bruce Blakeman ran a three-borough blitz calling the mayor a communist and the governor…
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Mamdani to ICE: Get Off Our Lots, or See You in Court
In a letter sent Nov. 2 to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and two top ICE officials, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said federal agents have been staging operations from city-owned parking lots in…
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Lawler’s Super PAC Bill Takes Aim at a Loophole Both Parties Have Used, and at His Opponent
Rep. Mike Lawler’s Stop Illegal Super PAC Coordination Act would bar joint candidate–super PAC committees from buying TV and digital ads. It came three weeks before Election Day, in a toss-up race…
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Campaign Cash for Cameras and Gates: New Jersey Lets Politicians Pay for Their Own Security
Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a bipartisan bill allowing campaign funds to cover home-security systems and guards, with no guns and no paid relatives. The vote was lopsided, the debate was not, and…
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A Judge Turns Off the Night Shift at the Chinatown Jail, and the City’s Rikers Timeline Gets Tighter
State Supreme Court Justice Kathy King temporarily stopped late-night construction at the borough-based jail rising at 124 White Street, after residents argued the city expanded work hours without any environmental review. The…
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After 124 Years of Offices, the Flatiron Finally Gets Its First Residents
The most photographed wedge in Manhattan is now somebody’s home. Closings have begun at the Flatiron’s condo conversion, and what’s left starts at $14.85 million.
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The Ginsburgs of Valhalla: Westchester’s Architect-Builder Asks Yonkers for a Bridge and Mount Vernon for Time
Sixty-three years after Martin Ginsburg and his brother bought a lot in Greenburgh, Ginsburg Development Companies is pressing two deals at once: an apartment house that spans a Yonkers street, and a…
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BIG Stacks a Horseshoe on the Gowanus. The Canal Deserves the Open End.
Criticism/opinion: Bjarke Ingels Group’s 27-story, 1,000-plus-unit tower at 175 Third Street broke ground last month in Gowanus. Its best idea is a gesture toward the water, and its biggest risk is that…
