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New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: It wasn’t just New York City commuters who had to deal with flooding Friday morning — even those looking to fly out of the city had to deal with flooding conditions. LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal A was forced to close down entirely before 11 a.m. after the building itself flooded as a result of the …

The New York Daily News reports: Damaging downpours dumped more than 3 inches of rain across the city early Friday, snarling travel on land and at the airports with the steady rain expected to last throughout the day and Gov. Hochul declaring New York City was in a state of emergency. A flash flood warning was in place for Manhattan, …

Axios reports: Target announced Tuesday that it is shuttering nine stores on Oct. 21 because “theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests.” Organized retail crime accounted for $112.1 billion in losses in 2022, a National Retail Federation report released Tuesday found. Organized retail crime — where gangs of thieves swarm stores for products …

Gothamist reports: A 420-pound, 5-foot-2-inch robocop with a giant camera for a face will begin patrolling the Times Square subway station overnight, the NYPD announced Friday morning. At a press conference held underground in the 42nd Street subway station, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city is launching a two-month pilot program to test the Knightscope K5 Autonomous …

CNN reports: The White House is shrugging off concerns the United Nations General Assembly won’t pack a policy punch this year, with President Joe Biden set to deliver an address Tuesday to an audience missing several key heads of state. In remarks to the 78th UN General Assembly, Biden, a senior administration official told reporters, “will lay out for the …

Gothamist reports: As New York City stared down an unprecedented rise in homelessness last year, its buildings commissioner was allegedly scheming with a deep-pocketed developer to clear fire victims from a Rockaway Park emergency shelter in exchange for a discounted luxury condo nearby, Manhattan prosecutors charged Wednesday. Eric Ulrich, the former commissioner of the Department of Buildings, faces 16 counts …

Mediaite reports: During Harris Faulkner‘s broadcast Friday, Fox News quickly pulled away from a street interview with an anti-migrant protester in New York City when he began threatening Democratic lawmakers. A group of anti-migrant protesters confronted prominent New York Democratic lawmakers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. Faulkner directed her producers to tune in to a live …

Gothamist reports: The NYPD arrested two more men this week in connection to the vandalization of a Pride flag display at the Stonewall National Monument in the West Village, for a total of three arrests. The first arrest came on Aug. 28, when 25-year-old Colorado resident Patrick Murphy turned himself in, police said. But video from the June 10 incident, …

The New York Times reports: New York City’s pension funds sued the Fox Corporation and its board on Tuesday, accusing the company of neglecting its duty to shareholders by opening itself up to defamation lawsuits from the persistent broadcasting of falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, is the most significant shareholder …

Some longtime readers may recall that this story was posted annually on this day for the first few years of JMG.   That Day Manhattan, September 11th, 2001 That day, I got to my office on 42nd Street at about 8:55am, a bit later than usual because that morning I’d voted for the first time as a New Yorker, pulling the …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump Organization has sold its right to operate a public golf course in the Bronx, city officials confirmed, offloading control of the publicly-owned property to a company that is seeking to build a casino in New York City. Bally’s Corporation, a gaming and entertainment company, will take over the job of running the 18-hole course, …

“You know, I live in New York City. Some people are suggesting that I run for mayor, and I just might have to. Alright. How did he become mayor? Well, they had the election on the last day of school. He got 289,000 votes. Does that seem impressive? There are 8 million people who live here. 3.1 something percent of …

New York City’s ABC News affiliate reports: The Electric Zoo Festival reached maximum capacity on Sunday night ‘due to unforeseen circumstances’ and did not let anyone else in for safety reasons. While the festival still went on, many of the people who bought tickets and planned to go were turned away. Some fans did not leave quietly when they got …

The New York Daily News reports: A Colorado man accused of tearing down LGBTQ rainbow flags by NYC’s historic Stonewall Inn during a Pride month hate crime was arrested Monday on charges police said were part of a pattern of attacks in the area. Cops charged Patrick Murphy, 25, of Denver, with committing criminal mischief as a hate crime for …

New York City’s CW affiliate reports: Police are searching for a man accused of attacking a woman after he made an anti-LGBTQ remark toward her in Hudson River Park, according to the NYPD. Police said the victim was jogging in the park on Aug. 21 at 8:30 a.m. when the suspect approached her and made the remark. The man allegedly …

The New York Times reports: Every year, New York City’s Department of Transportation collects tens of millions of dollars from property owners in return for permission to place street furniture on, over or under city sidewalks. This includes, but is not limited to, signs, filigreed lampposts, benches, bollards, planters, permanent trash receptacles, delivery ramps, underground vaults and just about anything …

Mediaite reports: A massive brawl broke out at Curt Sliwa anti-immigration rally in New York City where the former mayoral candidate was arrested on Sunday. Hundreds of protesters from Staten Island lined up outside Mayor Eric Adams‘ home at Gracie Mansion in opposition to the opening of new migrant shelters across the five boroughs of New York. Sliwa along with …

Via press release from the Queen County District Attorney: Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Frank Cavalluzzi was convicted of nine counts of attempted murder for attacking peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrators in June 2020, first charging at them wearing a glove with serrated blades and then attempting to run them over driving his SUV on the sidewalk. District …

The Real Deal reports: A City law that demands landlords squash illegal weed shops went into effect on Monday. The enacted bill, from Queens Council member Lynn Schulman, will slap fines up to $10,000 on landlords who knowingly lease commercial space to unlicensed marijuana sellers, according to a press release. Weed sellers themselves get off a lot easier. They face …

ABC News reports: New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan declined to recuse himself from overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case in New York, ruling Monday that Trump “has failed to demonstrate that there exists concrete, or even realistic reasons for recusal to be appropriate.” Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in …