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11/07/2025

Age played a big role in the New York City mayoral election.

Young voters overwhelmingly backed Zohran Mamdani, while older generations leaned toward Andrew Cuomo.

11/07/2025

The lineup for the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is officially here, and it’s packed with star power.

Headliners this year include Ciara, Foreigner, Lil Jon, Kool & the Gang, Busta Rhymes, Shaggy, Mickey Guyton and Teyana Taylor, with additional performances by Matteo Bocelli, Colbie Caillat, Gavin DeGraw, Christopher Jackson, Lauren Spencer Smith, Calum Scott, Jewel, Debbie Gibson, Meg Donnelly and Taylor Momsen.

From the world of dance, audiences can look forward to appearances by New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck and American Ballet Theatre star Roman Mejia. Plus, Sean Evans of Hot Ones joins as a special correspondent, alongside a slate of Broadway stars, Olympians and more.

11/07/2025

11/07/2025

Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement from Congress. Revisit her 2024 conversation with David Remnick, during which she discussed how she went from “housewife to House member to House Speaker”: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/DeSmNS

11/07/2025

11/07/2025

I don’t mean to sound jaded, but after photographing buildings throughout the five boroughs for well over six and a half years, it’s hard for a building to catch my surprise; chances are I’ve seen it already. But somehow, despite having lived on the Upper East Side for almost a decade, I had never came across this building at 40 East 68th Street. I ended up seeing this on social media and had to track it down for myself, and I’m glad I did. This house has a fascinating story. It was initially two rather standard brownstones; the one that makes up the right portion of the house was built in 1879 and for John Crimmins. Crimmins’ father had started a very successful construction business which would be involved in the construction of the subway, the Croton Water Works, elevated trains, etc. John began working for the family business at the age of 20 and became incredibly successful. After living in the home for over a decade, Crimmins purchased the neighboring brownstone on the left and hired architect William Schickel to merge them together. By 1898, the renovations were complete, and this massive beaux-arts mansion stood in their place.

Despite being on the Upper East Side during the height of the Gilded Age and being successful, the Crimmins family were Catholic and would not have been members of what we think of as Gilded Age high society. This actually led me down a slight rabbit hole trying to figure out if there were any Catholics that were part of the 400, and the answer is kind of. It looks like two families were, or used to be, the Learys, who were long-time friends of the Astors, and some members of the Drexel family. The Crimmins family did a lot to raise money for the construction of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, including funding an entire chapel, as well as donating to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. His contributions to the church would attract the attention of Pope Leo XIII, who made John a knight of St. Gregory. When John Crimmins passed away in 1917, his body was brought in a procession from the home to St. Patrick’s Cathedral for his funeral mass.

11/07/2025

Zohran Mamdani is confronting a harsh reality after his fantastical rise to New York City mayor-elect. The 34-year-old, with scant managerial experience, will have to manage a famously ungovernable city in all of its vast complexity.

The New York City that he inherits on Jan. 1 is at a postpandemic crossroads. A booming Wall Street is yielding higher-than-forecast tax receipts. Tourism has recovered and workers have returned to the office in a way they have not in the rest of the country, propping up the commercial real-estate market.

Still, the city faces steep budget shortfalls in the years ahead and there is fear that at least some of the wealthy will make good on threats to flee if Mamdani raises taxes. All that will be exacerbated if President Trump pulls billions of dollars in federal funding.

“Whoever is in office is going to have to grapple with an increasingly concerning fiscal outlook for the city and state,” said Seth Pinsky, who led economic development under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

“The next mayor’s most unforgiving constituent is likely going to be math.”

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11/07/2025

TEEN KILLED: A 14-year-old from North Bellmore was fatally struck while riding an e-bike.

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11/07/2025

11/07/2025

United, Delta begin cancelling flights under FAA directive

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11/07/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik has announced her run for New York governor. https://bit.ly/4qUsSdR