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Final Rent Guidelines Board meeting held ahead of vote on rent freeze or increase

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Tenants rallied at Joan of Arc Park ahead of the Rent Guidelines Board’s final public hearing at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side before the board votes on whether to freeze or raise the rent. Tenants are hoping for a rent freeze.
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Fans rush to buy Knicks merchandise after title win Original

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Hours after the New York Knicks captured their first NBA championship in more than 50 years, fans flocked to stores across Manhattan on Sunday to get their hands on commemorative gear before the team's championship parade. Lines stretched around the block outside the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue as fans waited for a chance to purchase championship shirts, hats and jerseys celebrating the Knicks' historic title run.
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NYC businesses take advantage of Knicks momentum Original

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Free baklava, free beer and for the luckiest ones, even free tickets! As the Knicks continue to chase their first championship in 53 years, businesses in New York City are taking advantage of the team’s momentum, offering customers free food and giveaways with the hope of long-term loyalty.
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No Knicks watch parties outside MSG for Game 3, NYPD says Original

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
A sea of die-hard Knicks fans decked out in orange and blue watched Games 1 and 2 of the NBA Finals at official Madison Square Garden watch parties just outside the arena, but that will not be happening for Game 3 on Monday. President Donald Trump will be attending Game 3 of the finals, where the Knicks are taking on the Spurs.
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Brooklyn Museum celebrates 30 years of Brooklyn Pride

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
A choir as vibrant as a rainbow kicked off a pride celebration at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday. They were cheered on by adoring fans who were rejoicing in the power of love. “I feel like when we get to sing with an audience, they get to sort of co-sign our experience as queer people,” John Atorino, artistic director of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, said.
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Tenants hopeful for a rent freeze under Mamdani administration

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Rent-stabilized tenants testifying at the Rent Guidelines Board hearing are feeling hopeful that there will be a freeze on rent. “We’re hoping, under the Mamdani administration, that we finally get someone who’s going to listen to the plight of tenants,” Doug Ostling, a Flushing resident, told NY1.
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N.Y. state no longer requesting information on dancing in liquor license application

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Some bar and restaurant owners are occasionally faced with an uncomfortable task: telling people it is illegal to dance in their establishments. What You Need To Know The New York State Liquor Authority is no longer requiring businesses to answer questions about whether customers will be allowed to dance in their establishments For those applying for liquor licenses, the question about customers dancing is no longer required.
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How New Yorkers can navigate the LIRR strike

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By Erin Pflaumer Verified, Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Roughly 250,000 commuters who take the Long Island Rail Road each weekday may need to find an alternate route. Union workers went on strike Saturday, sending the busiest commuter rail in North America to a screeching halt.
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Mamdani orders investigation after deadly subway shove

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
A 76-year-old man died after police say he was pushed down the stairs at a Chelsea subway station Thursday night by a man who had been released from a psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital earlier in the day. Police said Ross Falcone was pushed down the stairs by 32-year-old Rahmell Burke. Falcone died several hours later at a hospital.
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Staten Island nursing home sues New York’s Department of Health

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Klementina Ndoci’s father, Gjergj, moved into Silver Lake Specialized Care Center on Staten Island about a year ago. She visits her dad almost every single day, telling NY1 her dad is her “everything.” When Gjergj got to Silver Lake, he was on a breathing tube.
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Thousands sign up to help 'Team Max,' as teen prepares for transplant

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
An Upper East Side father who went viral on TikTok in a desperate search for a stem cell donor for his teenage son said his family was moving forward with a less-than-perfect match after failing to find an ideal one. Juan Uribe created the account in February to help find a match for his son Max, who needed a stem cell transplant.
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Mamdani joins cyclists for 40-mile Five Boro Bike Tour across NYC Original

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined tens of thousands of cyclists Sunday for the annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour, riding alongside participants across all five boroughs in what he said was a historic first for a city mayor. About 32,000 riders shifted into high gear for the 40-mile ride, which began in Lower Manhattan and wound its way through Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
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Mamdani speaks to union workers ‘May Day’ rally at Washington Square Park

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Thousands of events across the United States are marking “May Day,” which is also known as International Workers Day, by celebrating union workers and highlighting some struggles they are facing. Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke at a May Day rally at Washington Square Park on Friday afternoon in support of union workers. A number of different unions gathered at the park to advocate for labor rights, including higher wages and better healthcare.
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Bronx students to compete at national chess competition

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
For some Bronx students, chess is more than a board game — it teaches them how to strategize. For 6-year-old Yianna Parra, a student at the Rosalyn Yalow Charter School, it’s competitive.
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Staten Island high school competes in Essentially Ellington jazz competition

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Riley Greenfield is part of the Jazz Band at Susan E. Wagner High School and has been working on her upright bass improvised solo for months, describing it as a lot of “trial and error.” It comes at the end of Duke Ellington’s “Sugarhill Penthouse.” What You Need To Know The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival brings 20 of the best high school jazz bands from across the country to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P.
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Plans to cut middle school grades at Upper West Side schools scrapped, for now

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By Jillian Jorgensen Verified, Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
The education department is reversing course on its plan to close the middle school grades at two kindergarten through 8th grade schools on the Upper West Side, just days before a vote was set to be held by the Panel for Educational Policy.
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Staten Island district attorney proposes changes to Raise the Age law

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
New York was one of the last states to prosecute 16-year-olds as adults. All of that changed in 2017 when the state legislature passed Raise the Age, a law that ended the automatic prosecution of 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, making 18 the age of criminal responsibility in the state.
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NYPD probes reckless driving, fire at overnight Queens car gathering

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
A chaotic overnight car meetup featuring a ring of fire and reckless driving startled residents in Middle Village early Saturday, according to police and neighbors. Security video captured cars drifting around a fire in the middle of the intersection at Eliot Avenue and 69th Street around 1:40 a.m., as loud music and screeching tires echoed through the neighborhood.
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Students, Holocaust survivors collaborate in drama therapy-based program

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
A Kiddush cup that belonged to Holocaust survivor Fred Schoenfeld inspired a theatrical production called “To Life.” Schoenfeld’s father buried the family’s silver Judaica in their backyard in Czechoslovakia before escaping the Nazis. He returned for it after the war, even though the house no longer belonged to them.
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Parents oppose plan to cut middle school grades at Upper West Side school

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Tiffany Rodriguez-Noel’s son attends The Riverside School for Makers and Artists, a K-8 public school on the Upper West Side. Now, she is among a group of parents pushing back against a Department of Education proposal that would eliminate the school’s middle grades. The Department of Education has declined to call the move a closure, instead describing it as a “truncation” — a plan that would remove grades six through eight from the school.
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6-foot fence blocks view of Statue of Liberty from Battery Park

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
One of the most iconic views from Manhattan of the Statue of Liberty is now blocked by a 6-foot-tall black wire fence.
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Inside a Brooklyn home getting ready for Passover

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
As Jews across New York City begin observing Passover, families are taking part in traditions that go far beyond the dinner table. For eight days, those observing the holiday refrain from eating leavened grains such as wheat and oats, commemorating the biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in Egypt, when they fled in haste and did not have time for their bread to rise. Instead, matzah — an unleavened bread — is eaten throughout the holiday.
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Iran war disrupts Passover for New Yorkers who planned to travel to Israel

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
The Jewish holiday of Passover begins Wednesday evening, but for some New Yorkers who were planning to travel to Israel, Seders are looking different this year. Flights have been canceled following joint U.S.—Israel operations in Iran.
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Exclusive look at 7 women who are part of NYPD Highway Patrol

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
There are only seven women who are part of the NYPD Highway Patrol. It’s the most females the Highway Patrol has ever had at once. Two of them are sergeants and the other five are police officers. For Women’s History Month, NY1 got an exclusive interview with two of the women who are part of this unit.
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14 firefighters injured in Bronx firehouse blaze: FDNY

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Fourteen firefighters suffered minor injuries when a three-alarm blaze broke out inside a Bronx firehouse Friday morning, the FDNY said. Fire officials said the flames tore through Engine 79 in Bedford Park around 6 a.m. Firefighters were working inside the firehouse when one noticed that there was a fire on the first floor, according to the FDNY.
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9-year-old Juilliard Pre-College student performs on Mozart’s childhood violin

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Nine-year-old Freya Chen, a violinist, is one of the youngest students at Juilliard Pre-College. The instrument she currently plays is a half-size, which led her to a unique opportunity: to perform on a priceless artifact that most will only ever see behind glass.
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Venezuelans in New York City remain hopeful, weeks after Maduro’s capture

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
When Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the United States in January, Daniela Hernandez joined hundreds of Venezuelans in New York City celebrating what many saw as a turning point for their home country. Hernandez, who came to the United States seeking political asylum from Venezuela as a young teenager in 2024, said she remains hopeful weeks later as she watches developments from afar.
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15 people, including children, injured in Kingsbridge fire: FDNY

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Ana Ramos’ apartment in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx was destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon. “Everything’s destroyed, there’s a lot of smoke, a lot of water, the whole floor is very burnt and damaged,” she told NY1.
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Survivor’s family credits music with saving them at Auschwitz

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Beautiful music at Auschwitz concentration camp, the most infamous Nazi camp, is not something one would expect, but for some prisoners, it helped save their lives. David Lennon, the son of Holocaust survivor Yvette Assael Lennon, said his mother was a member of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz — a role he credits with keeping her alive.
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St. John's to play Northern Iowa in first round of NCAA Tournament Original

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
St. John's University's basketball team is heading to San Diego. They are a No. 5 seed in the East region, and will play Northern Iowa in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Head coach Rick Pitino, who brought the team back to prominence, is getting ready to study Northern Iowa's basketball team. What You Need To Know St. John’s University’s basketball team is heading to San Diego.
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'Design Competition' lets Bronx students become filmmakers for a week

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Ricardo Salmon is a 10th grader at Comp Sci High, a charter school in the South Bronx. But this week, he is a filmmaker. “My documentary is about the dangers of commuting to school, which could be either walking, taking the train, or by bus,” Salmon said.
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Advocates call on city to end homeless sweeps

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Calvin Michael graduated from Columbia University in 2006. After that, he says he ended up homeless for seven years, living in shelters for three of them. “You’re only one paycheck away from the shelter of being homeless, even with an Ivy League degree,” Michael said.
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NYC public schools mark Civics Week, empowering students to use their voices

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Since 2019, Civics Week at New York City Public Schools has aimed to celebrate youth voices, empower students and get those who are eligible registered to vote. Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels believes teaching civics is essential.
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Upper West Side school to remain open after hot mic incident

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
The city’s Department of Education is reversing course and no longer moving forward with a proposal to close a middle school on the Upper West Side. The reason, parents believe, is because of an alleged racist comment made by a parent during a community education council meeting.
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88-year-old Brooklyn painter sells art for the first time

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Creating art is something 88-year-old Benjamin Feldshuh has been doing his entire life. He remembered the first time he picked up a paintbrush at 4 years old.
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From luge run to love run: N.Y. Olympian searching for love at the Winter Games Original

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
New York native Sophia Kirkby made history with her luge partner Chevonne Forgan, becoming part of the first team to complete a women’s doubles luge run at the Olympics. Now that her race is over, Kirkby says a different kind of competition has taken center stage: romance. While she was sliding down the track, potential suitors were sliding into her direct messages.
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Family turns to TikTok to find stem cell match for NYC teen

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Fifteen-year-old Max Uribe has a lot going for him. He works hard in school, plays soccer and composes piano music. “He is very diligent. He is very self-driven. He's very curious,” his father, Juan Uribe, told NY1. “He doesn't like the limelight. That's not his style.” But last week, Juan Uribe stepped into the spotlight for him. He created a TikTok account and posted his first video, which has since garnered more than 18 million views.
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Nonprofits scramble to protect funding as city faces budget gap

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Michelle Cabrera struggled with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was in eighth grade at the time and says the shift to virtual classes left her behind academically by the time she arrived at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood. “After COVID, it really screwed me over because everything was online and I'm more of a hands-on person,” she said.
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Brooklyn Diocese seeks settlement of 1,100 sex abuse claims

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Ted Gutierrez grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, attending Holy Family Roman Catholic Church. He remembers Priest Romano Ferraro touching him inappropriately. “I became an altar boy, and that’s when I noticed the abuse. But I didn’t realize it was abuse because we thought it was just normal. Because how could a priest, a respected member of the community, do something like that,” he told NY1. What You Need To Know On Thursday, Bishop of Brooklyn, Rev. Robert J.
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7 Catholic elementary schools to close in Brooklyn, Queens

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Parents at Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Academy say they are processing the news that their kids’ Catholic elementary school is one of the seven that will close at the end of the school year. Nitesh Singh has two children enrolled in the school.
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Ronald Hicks officially installed as New York’s new archbishop Original

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Ronald Hicks, who was appointed by Pope Leo XIV, officially assumed his title as New York’s archbishop at an installation mass Friday afternoon. Just after 2 p.m., Hicks knocked on the door and was welcomed into St. Patrick’s Cathedral by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, marking the start of an official transfer of leadership.
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New NYPD statistics show rise in antisemitic hate crimes

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By Emma Barnett Verified, Rebecca Greenberg
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
New numbers from the NYPD show a rise in antisemitic hate crimes. Anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by 182% in January 2026 compared to January 2025, statistics released Monday show. Overall, hate crimes within that same window increased by 152%.
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Snowstorm fallout leaves some Brooklyn residents in the dark

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Days after last week’s massive snowstorm, the cold is still lingering for hundreds of Brooklyn residents who spent much of the weekend in the dark. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, more than 1,000 Con Edison customers lost power over several days as melting snow and road salt seeped into the utility’s underground electric system, triggering a series of outages that frustrated residents and tested families already dealing with winter weather.
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Some NYC businesses participate in 'nationwide shutdown'

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Some New York City businesses are participating in what is being called a “nationwide shutdown.” Organizers hope a massive show of resistance will convince the Trump administration to stop sending immigration agents to cities nationwide.
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Students tour Jewish Heritage museum before Holocaust Remembrance Day

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
For a group of sixth graders, a visit to the Museum of Jewish Heritage was more than a field trip — it was a lesson in empathy, survival and the power of remembering. Coming just days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, students from the East New York Family Academy left describing the experience as “emotional,” “moving” and “very sad.” Their social studies teacher, Erika Hockenberry, said Holocaust education helps her students develop empathy and compassion.
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Sledders take advantage of the snow in Central Park

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
A sledder named Graham couldn't contain his excitement while sledding in Central Park on Monday, telling NY1, “This is the first snow day of my life.” “The snow's been like, oh shucks, it's been so good,” he said. Another sledder, Mia, spent the day with her family on the East 72nd Street Central Park hill.
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Daily creative challenge turns into Staten Island museum exhibit

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Graphic artist Romello Agjmurati set out on a personal challenge: create and share a new digital design every day for an entire year. What began as a private creative exercise turned into a public record of daily reflection. “The original intent behind them was just as a design exercise with no true focus other than reacting to the world around me and the world within me,” Agjmurati said.
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Jewish Iranian New Yorker shares story of growing up in Iran

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
New Yorkers with family in Iran are glued to any news they can get from their home country. They’re worried about their loved ones after widespread anti-government protests, triggered by economic hardship, turned into an uprising opposing the Islamic Republic — the religious authoritarian system with a chokehold on Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Thousands of protesters in Iran have been killed in a brutal crackdown by security forces.
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New Yorkers embrace cold, wintry weekend

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
For some New Yorkers, this weekend’s wintry weather made them rethink their plans. “It did keep me in on Saturday night. I didn’t have major plans, just to go into the city,” Harris, a Brooklyn resident, said. “But when it started snowing, I decided to stay in Brooklyn instead.
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Some Bangladeshis in NYC are 'shocked' by immigrant visa processing freeze

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By Emma Barnett Verified
| Spectrum News NY1 Verified
Mohammad Siddique immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh over 30 years ago. He now has two kids and wanted his mom, who still lives there, thousands of miles away, to be close by. What You Need To Know Mohammad Siddique said he is "shocked" the U.S. is freezing new immigrant visas beginning Jan. 21. He said his mom was supposed to have an interview for a visa at the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh on Feb.
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