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“The fake fans bought everything to impress their boyfriends," a Canal Street vendor told Hell Gate about the lack of Knicks merch on the famed bootleg corridor.
Nine-year congressional incumbent Adriano Espaillat is at risk of an upset from a young DSA challenger with a brand-new Mamdani endorsement. But the oppo is pouring in.
Police scholar Stuart Schrader's latest book, "Blue Power," charts the influence New York City's police unions have had on city politics and beyond, and offers some pointed lessons for our newest mayor.
Filmmaker Joel Alfonso Vargas on how his new movie, "Mad Bills to Pay," reflects a hyper-real Bronx experience.
Filmmaker Caroline Golum on her feature "Revelations of Divine Love," recreating 14th-century England in Ridgewood, and the battles low-budget productions face.
A major new housing study is challenging the idea behind the "abundance agenda."
"It would be very unwise... to simply reduce the forces of the left to the DSA expression."
"I'm not a fluff elected official. I'm not one that needs a ton of pats on the back."
"It's like it's the first time that it's snowed for everybody."
"And then he looks up at me, and he looks like he maybe thought I was happy to see him. Then I booed."
But not in a bad way!
I told the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet his band's new album is his best yet, and he replied: "We don't necessarily improve as artists. We just don't."