Nearly 30,000 311 complaints were logged in Hell's Kitchen in 2025; residents say many problems linger and agency responses can be opaque.

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square offered roughly $64B to buy Universal Music Group, proposing a Nevada‑incorporated "New UMG" and a NYSE listing that jolted markets.

Video shows heavy smoke at West 33rd and 10th Avenue in Hudson Yards; firefighters were on scene and no immediate injuries were reported.

CBS is selling the 11:35 p.m. hour to Byron Allen; Comics Unleashed moves up on May 22 and Funny You Should Ask stays on after midnight.

A Manhattan arts teacher was sentenced to 150 months after prosecutors say he shared child pornography and sexually exploited a student.

City health officials have raised water‑quality and safety questions about the East River +POOL pilot, prompting extra testing and changes to the timeline. Regulators want more proof before swimmers can dive in.

An unidentified man was found unconscious and badly bruised in a Wald Houses stairwell in the East Village and later died at Bellevue Hospital, police say.

Lina Khan will direct Columbia Law’s new Center for Law and the Economy, bringing her FTC enforcement pedigree to campus work on antitrust, banking and tech policy.

A Manhattan scientist with a deadly family history of ALS has been receiving experimental spinal antisense infusions at Columbia; early tests show promise.

Dozens of activists who marched with Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani occupied Palantir's West Village lobby; the NYPD arrested multiple demonstrators and charges are pending.

Survivors of last summer’s Harlem Legionnaires outbreak say they still suffer and are organizing a lawsuit after reporting gaps in testing, maintenance and inspections.

A long‑delayed Bellevue hospital ward will take a handful of sick detainees as the city shutters the Rikers infirmary, testing staffing plans and oversight. Costs and delays have critics on edge.

NYPD Crime Stoppers posted a wanted notice after a 69‑year‑old man was punched and knocked down outside 565 Lenox Ave on Feb. 22. A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for tips.