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Former Rep. Eliot L. Engel, who was a fixture in New York politics for decades until he lost his seat in the House in 2020, has died at the age of 79. Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins confirmed the news in a statement posted on social media. “We are deeply…

Josh Hart had 26 points and Jalen Brunson added 25 points and 10 assists as the New York Knicks extended their home winning streak to six games by beating the visiting Boston Celtics 112-106 Thursday night. Boston (54-26) was within three points, 109-106, after a Nikola Vucevic basket with 35.6…

Rent may cost a fortune in many metros—but not in this newly constructed eight-story building tucked away in a desirable neighborhood in New York City. The 146-unit residential building at 50-25 Barnett Ave. in Sunnyside, Queens, is offering monthly rents starting at an astonishingly low $545 a month. The catch?…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) teased a potential 2028 presidential run during a conversation with civil rights leader Al Sharpton at the National Action Network's annual convention in NEw York on Wednesday. “You’re going to be my running mate?” Khanna joked to Sharpton, in response to a question from the Baptist…

“Whatever the other failings and excesses, even banalities, of Cats, it believes in purely theatrical magic, and on that faith it unquestionably delivers,” Frank Rich wrote in 1982, when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. His review proved somewhat prophetic: Cats would become…

Kathleen Grasmeder McLaughlin Photo Name: Kathleen Grasmeder Firm: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Location: Glens Falls, NY Team Custodied Assets: $1.8 billion Background: Kathleen Grasmeder studied commerce and engineering program at Drexel University and later earned an MBA in new venture management from the University of St. Thomas. She joined Smith…

Democracy Now! co-host Juan González discusses the Latinx Freedom Movement Conference, taking place this week at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. The conference will be a landmark gathering of 1960s movement veterans, scholars, cultural leaders and more. González, who co-founded the Young Lords, a revolutionary group that fought…

In the hours after the U.S. first struck Iran on Feb. 28, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put out a statement that was characteristically blunt. “This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic,” she wrote. Her full-throated denunciation stood in contrast to the carefully calibrated messaging from…

The Rev. Kurt Gerhard stood near the lectern in Christ Church Bronxville. Beneath him, a network of pipes stretched into a nearby parking lot, where boreholes have been drilled hundreds of feet into the ground.  The lingering March chill hung in the air, so water was piped into these deep…

Missing F-15E crew member located, rescued from 'behind enemy lines' in Iran: Trump US forces successfully completed a massive operation to recover a missing Weapons System Officer, who ejected himself from a F-15E that went down over Iran on Friday, from behind enemy lines on Sunday. The fighter jet's pilot…