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Valuables Stuck in the Muck? Subway Dropped-Items Team Is on the Case.

A dirty pair of blue sunglasses, covered in muck, after being retrieved from the 6 train tracks at Union Square, Aug. 15, 2025.

When Isla Agir’s glasses were knocked from her hands and onto the southbound No. 6 line track at 14th Street-Union Square last Thursday morning, she wasn’t sure she would be reunited with them. “It’s going to cost me, if I buy here, $8,000,” Agir said of her Italian-made Lombardo frames. “They have the thinner lenses […]

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Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

An opened potato chip bag containing an envelope full of cash given to a CITY reporter by Winnie Greco, Aug. 20, 2025.

A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday. The failed payoff — a wad of cash in a red envelope stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple […]

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Eric Adams Aides and Donors Expected to be Indicted by Manhattan DA

Ingrid Lewis-Martin is escorted into a Manhattan courtroom for an arraignment on bribery charges.

Mayor Eric Adams’ former chief advisor, a close associate he put in charge of city leases and two key supporters of the mayor are expected to be indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on Thursday on influence-peddling charges. This will be her second indictment for one-time Chief Advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin, a longtime Adams confidant: She […]

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Ukrainian Refugees in NYC Watch Trump and Putin, Uncertain of Their Next Steps

Daughter wearing orange sweatshirt and white shirt looks at the phone her mother is looking at smiling. Behind them is a marshy park with stone bridge.

This spring, not long after the second inauguration of Donald Trump, Irina Khorina saw her hopes for a new life in the United States collapse.  Two years earlier, she and her teenage daughter, Viktoria, had fled the war in Ukraine. They landed in New York, determined to begin again. Irina found a job in sales […]

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NYPD Commissioner Tisch Declines to Punish Cop Who Fatally Shot Fleeing Driver

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speaks at the Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn about quality of life policing.

Despite a plea by the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board that she reconsider, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Friday made final a ruling that Lt. Jonathan Rivera should not face discipline for the October 2019 shooting death of a 31-year-old driver following a car stop in The Bronx, according to documents obtained by THE CITY.  […]

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