New York City

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she would propose legislation so the federal government could not “weaponize” local officers to enforce civil immigration laws.

The growing number of deaths comes amid heightened concern about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s handling of last weekend’s winter storm and the aftermath.

A gas leak from the stove started a fire that engulfed apartments on the top floors. The man was arrested on Wednesday.

Winston Nguyen, a former teacher at Saint Ann’s School who pleaded guilty to a felony charge last year, is accused in the lawsuit of soliciting naked photos of students and sharing them online.

Federal prosecutors said a man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent during a visit to the federal jail in Brooklyn where Luigi Mangione is being held.

The police accused a New Jersey man of slamming his vehicle into the Hasidic Jewish organization’s Brooklyn headquarters. The man’s father said that his son wanted to convert to Judaism.

The New York City Council overwhelmingly voted to create wage minimums for private security officers and lift the cap on street vendor licenses.

“I thought it was the right thing to do,” former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son said. He was issued a summons after joining demonstrators in the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn in TriBeCa.

The New York Civil Liberties Union accused the Police Department of discrimination in a federal lawsuit that calls for an end to the practice.

As a legal battle continues over the fate of New York City’s toll program, a judge appeared skeptical of the federal government’s arguments, but did not issue a ruling.