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Arts & Entertainment

NYC landmarks, including miniature Brooklyn Bridge, highlight Holiday Train Show at NYBG

By Claude Solnik

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Maimonides welcomes Brooklyn’s first baby of 2026

By Gabriele Holtermann

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AMNY

Nurses strike looming: Up to 20,000 caregivers issue 10-day warning for biggest walkout in NYC history

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Brooklynites dive into 2026 at frigid Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge

Kirstyn Brendlen & Erica Price

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AMNY

Meet Mike Flynn, Mayor Mamdani’s newly minted Transportation Department head

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News

Brooklyn sees landmarking slowdown in 2025, but Flatbush gains two new Historic Districts

By Anna Bradley-Smith

Mayor Zohran Mamdani pictured signing three of his first five executive orders aimed at tackling the city’s housing crisis during a press conference at an apartment building in Brooklyn

AMNY

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: New mayor gets started by revoking Adams-era orders, relaunches tenant rights office

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and wife Rama Duwaji at his inauguration

AMNY

Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration: New mayor vows not to soften democratic socialist agenda for governing NYC

Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes the oath of office

AMNY

MAYOR MAMDANI: Queens democratic socialist takes the oath of office as NYC’s 112th mayor

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LI Press

Flushing Financial merging with Ocean First

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Brooklyn records safest year as murders and shootings hit historic low: DA

By Gabriele Holtermann

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News

Through the lens: Brooklyn Paper’s most striking, surprising and unforgettable photos of 2025

Compiled by Gabriele Holtermann

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AMNY

How Prospect Park Deli turned New York energy into internet gold

Isla & Co.

Isla & Co. brings Aussie brunch, dinner and $3 coffee to Williamsburg starting Jan. 1

By Olivia Seaman

People using OMNY payment in NYC transit in 2026

AMNY

2026 PREVIEW: What will be the next stops for NYC transit in the new year?

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Politics

What to know about Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral inauguration this Thursday

By Robert Pozarycki

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Books

‘Cake Eater’: Carl Radke, owner of Greenpoint’s Soft Bar and ‘Summer House’ star, gears up for memoir release and nationwide tour

By Olivia Seaman

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Three injured in early-morning Coney Island apartment fire

By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell

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News

As Rent Transparency Act begins, Brooklyn startup helps renters uncover hidden rent-stabilized apartments

By Olivia Seaman

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News

Pressure, pushback and pride: The stories that defined Brooklyn in 2025

By Brooklyn Paper

More from Around New York

The Empire State Building and Midtown Manhattan are bathed in the light of the setting sun, as viewed from the Edge NYC, in New York City, U.S., December 29, 2025.

What to do in queer NYC this weekend

U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules transport planes sit parked on the tarmac at the former Roosevelt Roads naval base, amid tensions between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, January 2, 2026.

Welch alarmed by increased US military build-up in the Caribbean

Parent demonstrates how to talk your child's teacher

New York Family

How to Talk to Your Child’s Teacher Without Being THAT Parent

NYC public nurses win

Nurses strike looming: Up to 20,000 caregivers issue 10-day warning for biggest walkout in NYC history