Senate Democrats reintroduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act this week — a sweeping plan to deschedule marijuana, fund expungements and funnel tax revenue into community reinvestment. The filing restarts a national debate over rescheduling vs. full descheduling.

A 20-year-old man was shot early Saturday outside 1901 Hennessy Place in University Heights. Police say a masked gunman fled in a blue Honda and the victim is expected to recover.

Documents show the NY‑NJ Host Committee solicited donations in New Jersey for years without filing required paperwork with the state Attorney General.

A former St. Joseph's University baseball player alleges he was stripped and assaulted during a March team trip; a Suffolk County lawsuit names the school and coaches.

A White House teleprompter operator allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on President Trump’s speeches and is in talks with federal regulators over the trades.

Twenty states, including California and New York, filed a brief defending D.C.’s authority to discipline Jeffrey Clark and urged a judge to dismiss DOJ’s suit seeking to halt sanctions.

A multi‑floor Keith Haring exhibition at 60 White reconstructs the DV8 nightclub and gathers works made around the globe. The show reframes Haring as an artist in dialogue with cities from Tokyo to Paris.

A West Harlem walk‑up at 502 W. 135th was listed for $1.375M — Jay Martin tweeted it amounted to about $57K per unit, spotlighting how rent law and debt are reshaping values.

A Queens College instructor has been named in reporting that he led a DSA "Red Rabbits" marshal training in Manhattan and, per the New York Post, urged attendees to skirt the law.

Street vendors have quietly turned a stretch of St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights into an open-air market for prescription medicines, neighbors say.

Early-morning drag racing in Borough Park left a marked NYPD cruiser damaged and an officer hospitalized. Police say the scene near Knapp Street and Avenue W was chaotic and the investigation is ongoing.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani told The New York Times there is “no respite” from a genocide in Gaza, a line that deepens local debate over his stance. His remarks arrive amid ongoing friction between City Hall and parts of the Jewish community.

Federal prosecutors say a Brooklyn man identified as Montilla preyed on minors and recorded their abuse, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Investigators are working to identify victims and preserve evidence.