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Harvey Weinstein’s Fate Now Rests with the Jury

On Trump’s List of Pardons: the Former NY Police Commissioner

A Queens Detective Takes His Own Life

Chinatown Businesses Struggle Amid Coronavirus Fears

A Valentine’s Day for the Dogs

For African Americans, A Path Through Art To Missing Histories

Cold, Cold Hands, Warm, Warm Hearts

The Industry Behind the Voices

Students in NYC Remember the “Whistleblower” Doctor Who Died of Coronavirus

Chinatown Nonprofit Marches On After Loss

When It Rains on the Parade

The Culinary King Eats His Way Through Queens Up Close

Bill de Blasio endorses Bernie Sanders for President

Is the MTA Meeting Its Promises to Make the Subway Accessible?

The Ongoing Fight for Heat in NYCHA Housing

A Surge of Violence in Jails Stirs Scrutiny from City

The Word Magician

A Student Who Can’t Live Without Music

More Food Trucks in NYC?

Worshipping the Saint of Death

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When Table Tennis Meets Disc Jockey in Midtown New York

A resurgence of ping-pong in the Big Apple…

Can a Local Winner Go All the Way?

Tacitus wins the Wood Memorial at the Aqueduct in Queens, and is now leading among Kentucky Derby contenders…

Child Care Centers—Many in Queens—Get Health Violations for Having Unvaccinated Students

Health department data shows that parents' resistance to flu shots often ends up with the childcare center getting penalized…

Can an American Become a K-pop Star?

A Jamaican-American woman wants to become a star in the Korean pop music industry. Can she make it as a foreigner? …

Climb Vessel, Take a Vesselfie

Postcards from the first weekend at New York City's newest playground, Hudson Yards…

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A Second Suspect Is Arrested in the Murder of a Barnard College Student

By TuAnh Dam on February 15, 2020.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged as an adult in death of Tessa Majors…

Asian New Yorkers Worry the Coronavirus is Behind a Rash of Bias Incidents

By Staff on February 15, 2020.

By Yuntong Man and Caroline Chen A week ago, Helen Wang, a Chinese graduate social work student at Columbia University,…

Everything You Need to Know About the Brokers’ Fee Ban (and Its Temporary Restraint)

By Carson Kessler on February 14, 2020.

It’s possible that NYC renters got a little too excited upon initially hearing the words “broker’s fee” and “ban” together in the same sentence. A judge will decide…

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Two Police Officers Shot in the Bronx in Less than 12 Hours