Catched from the NYtimes

The legislative session that began this week poses a significant test of the most closely watched collaboration in state and city politics.

After the Hanukkah massacre in Australia, the rabbi and the Muslim hero who saved lives made a visit to New York that was part religious pilgrimage, part media outreach.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not call the shootings justified, but said New York Police officers were placed in “incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances.”

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators hurled threats at each other outside an event promoting real estate sales in Jerusalem. The mayor said those actions had “no place in our city.”

Summit Properties USA won an auction on Friday to buy more than 5,000 apartments out of bankruptcy from the Pinnacle Group despite City Hall’s efforts to intervene.

During a visit to New York, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, criticized the city’s policies that prevent police officers from helping immigration agents.

Preliminary data suggests that bouts of the viral illness have already peaked, but the city’s health commissioner urged caution.

The New York City college had been accused of tolerating discrimination against those who believe in Zionism following a pro-Palestinian protest that trapped students inside a library.

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York, made a private visit to the billionaire film director’s Central Park West apartment this week.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani described a complex and expensive expansion of child care in New York City that would add programs for 2-year-olds.