New York Headlines

• Houses of Worship Struggle to Feed New Yorkers During SNAP Stalemate

  (by Samantha Latson for The New York Times 47 minutes ago)
  In New York City, there are about 600 food pantries scattered across the five boroughs and at least 90 percent are run by either a religious organization or a nonprofit connected to a place of worship.
  
  

• Houses of Worship Struggle to Feed New Yorkers During SNAP Stalemate

  (by Samantha Latson for The New York Times 47 minutes ago)
  In New York City, there are about 600 food pantries scattered across the five boroughs and at least 90 percent are run by either a religious organization or a nonprofit connected to a place of worship.
  
  

• Andrew Cuomo would beat Zohran Mamdani in head-to-head race for NYC mayor: bombshell poll

  (by Craig McCarthy for The New York Post an hour ago)
  The poll, which surveyed just over 2,400 voters, comes a day after the same polling outfit had Cuomo trailing Mamdani by six points.
  
  
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• WIC Food Aid Program for Families Gets Funding Stopgap

  (by Linda Qiu for The New York Times an hour ago)
  An injection of $450 million for WIC comes as the Trump administration announced it would only fund partial benefits for another food aid program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, for November.
  
  

• How Zohran Mamdani’s aloof wife, Rama Duwaji, quietly steered his campaign from behind the scenes

  (by Emily Crane for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Zohran Mamdani’s artist wife Rama Duwaji helped design the Democratic socialist's logos -- but has been noticeably absent from his entire mayoral campaign.
  
  

• Drunk Driver Who Killed 4 at Manhattan Picnic Is Convicted of Murder

  (by Hurubie Meko for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Daniel Hyden, who was a substance abuse counselor, had written a book about sobriety. He crashed his pickup through a fence and into a barbecue.
  
  

• Body of missing Southampton kayaker found as search for pal continues

  (by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  The body of a 27-year-old kayaker who disappeared in the waters off Southampton over the weekend has been recovered -- as police continue the search for his missing pal, authorities said.
  
  

• Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Moves From Defense to Counterattack

  (by Glenn Thrush for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.
  
  

• Mamdani Mocks Cuomo After Trump Offers His Reluctant Backing

  (by Matthew Haag for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  “I know how hard you worked for this,” Zohran Mamdani said on social media after his chief rival in the New York City mayor’s race, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, received tepid support from President Trump.