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America’s busiest passenger rail service will shut down on Saturday if workers and transit officials cannot agree on a new contract.

With affordable housing in extremely high demand, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration announced plans to reduce red tape and get people into those apartments faster.

Prosecutors say that Lu Jianwang opened a hub in Manhattan’s Chinatown to monitor outspoken critics of the Chinese Communist Party.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the 81-year-old former New York City mayor, was in critical condition with pneumonia in a Florida hospital earlier this month.

The man, Dan Sohail, admitted on Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court to pounding his car repeatedly into the building at the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox complex.

The police said 15 people were indicted after a series of shootings across Brooklyn that were linked to gang disputes. At least six people were injured and another was fatally shot.

New York City’s emergency management agency, which ran the alert network, said it needed to free up personnel to help translate messages for the World Cup.

The action, initiated by the U.S. attorney’s office in North Texas, could set up a showdown between NYU Langone and the Justice Department.

A generous influx of state resources from Gov. Kathy Hochul and a new tax on luxury second homes will help Mayor Zohran Mamdani balance a $125 billion budget.

Victor Arias, 29, was charged with starting a blaze that killed three people after prosecutors said he tossed a cigarette into a pile of cardboard boxes in the lobby of his apartment building.