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12/02/2025

The number of ICE arrests in New York City in just six months under President Donald Trump’s administration eclipsed the total in the entirety of 2024, according to data reviewed and analyzed by NY1.
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Data analyzed by NY1 also shows a rise in deportations in the city.

12/02/2025

New Yorkers are getting to know the City Council member who is claiming she has enough support to become the next council speaker.

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Julie Menin would bring to the role decades of service to Manhattan communities.

12/02/2025

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised he won’t stop backing causes favoring workers’ rights. But Mamdani would not take a stand on a proposal to give City Council members and himself a pay raise.

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NY1's Bernadette Hogan has more.

12/02/2025

A new casino could be coming to your neighborhood.

On Monday, the Gaming Facility Location Board recommended the state issue three licenses in New York City. Courtney Gross explains where the proposed casinos would go and what they could look like.

12/01/2025

A chaotic scene unfolded in Chinatown on Saturday afternoon as protesters clashed with federal immigration agents and police near Canal Street. Protesters had gathered outside a parking garage at Centre and Howard streets after getting word that ICE agents were inside preparing for a raid. As federal agents tried to exit in their vehicles, protesters blocked them, forming a barricade with their bodies and garbage bags. Police eventually cleared an area for the vehicles to leave. According to a police source more than 10 protesters were arrested for not clearing the scene when the NYPD asked them to do so multiple times.

12/01/2025

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said his New York offices were the target of multiple bomb threats made by email, the Democratic lawmaker said Monday.
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The New York senator said local and federal law enforcement responded immediately.

12/01/2025

Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday.
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The company will also pay $3.4 million in civil penalties under the agreement with the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

12/01/2025

A 1948 Brooklyn Dodgers baseball signed by legends Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella and Malcolm X’s briefcase are just two gems from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem now on display at the New York Public Library.

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The exhibit is part of the New York Public Library.

12/01/2025

Luigi Mangione has appeared in court seeking to bar evidence from his state trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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Mangione’s defense lawyers got state terrorism charges thrown out in September.

12/01/2025

Former FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches, a well-known advocate for September 11th first responders and a longtime member of the FDNY, will be laid to rest Monday in Brooklyn.

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The 74-year-old was a 30-year veteran of the department.

12/01/2025

The Gaming Facility Location Board on Monday recommended the state issue casino licenses to Bally’s, Metropolitan Park and Resorts World New York City. After the decision was announced, a group of protesters erupted in chants of “shame on you.”

12/01/2025

A state board on Monday recommended all three of New York City's casino proposals for state gaming licenses.

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The recommendations move to the state's Gaming Commission.