By New York Post | Vaughn Golden | 9/12/2025 4:54 PM
Hochul is one of several high profile New York Dems – including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) – who have yet to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor. ... Read full Story
The iconic Fifth Avenue light show returns this holiday season after a one-year hiatus, promising nightly sparkle, music and Midtown magic ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Amanda Woods | 9/12/2025 4:09 PM
Shyhemm Lee was shot in the head and the woman grazed in the neck when the suspects started shooting on the grounds of NYCHA’s Armstrong II Houses on Lexington Avenue near Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 11:50 p.m. Thursday, cops said. ... Read full Story
McGriff, wearing a white painter's suit, stoically stared ahead as the prosecutors recounted the “horrifying and shocking” details of the couple’s murder. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Ben Kochman | 9/12/2025 2:14 PM
A shelf stocker acquitted of the deadly stabbing of an unhinged shoplifter at a Midtown CVS had his record wiped completely clean Friday as a judge tossed his remaining weapons charge. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Amanda Woods | 9/12/2025 1:52 PM
Servin Maradiaga was charged with rape, burglary, aggravated sexual abuse and criminal obstruction of breathing in the sickening home invasion, authorities said. ... Read full Story
Nearly 300,000 Long Island Rail Road riders could face disrupted commutes as early as next Thursday, as unions threaten the agency’s first strike in nearly 30 years. Unions representing over 3,000 workers, or roughly half of the railroad’s workforce, could walk out on September 18 unless they receive higher raises than those already negotiated with [...]
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By New York Post | Steven Nelson | 9/12/2025 10:47 AM
Trump said that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat running as an independent, was strongest against Mamdani in the four-way race. ... Read full Story
Fishs Eddy, the cult-favorite Union Square home goods and dinnerware store known for its quirky products, will open its first Brooklyn location this fall in Dumbo. Developer Two Trees Management announced Thursday that the retailer signed a 10-year lease for a 3,800-square-foot outpost at 81 Front Street, about the same size as its flagship at [...]
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“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.