New York Headlines

• Nassau gifts sleazy drug-infested former motel for $20M project to house struggling veterans: officials

  (by Brandon Cruz for The New York Post 14 minutes ago)
  Nassau County donates a former drug-infested motel for a $20M project creating veteran housing.
  
  

• How New York’s Mayoral Race Became a Vote on the Middle East

  (by Katherine Rosman for The New York Times 20 minutes ago)
  Many New Yorkers have been agonizing over the war between Israel and Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. Now they are casting their ballots.
  
  

• NYC ‘bounty hunters’ making almost $1M apiece reporting idling trucks are professionals, live in posh enclaves

  (by Kevin Sheehan, Carl Campanile, Marie Pohl, Alex Oliveira for The New York Post 43 minutes ago)
  The street snitches who have raked in up to nearly $1 million apiece reporting idling trucks to the city are lawyers, doctors and residents of posh enclaves — enjoying the lucrative perks of a program that targeted even mobile COVID testing trucks during the pandemic.
  
  
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• Zohran Mamdani poses as ‘cheap seats’ Knicks fan in cringefest political stunt with reporter, podcaster in tow

  (by Vaughn Golden, Craig McCarthy, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon for The New York Post 44 minutes ago)
  Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani posted from the cheap seats at MSG -- but the lefty Dem is more about soccer and cricket than hoops.
  
  

• Trump Endorses Cuomo for N.Y.C. Mayor on Eve of Election

  (by Dana Rubinstein and Michael Gold for The New York Times 45 minutes ago)
  The president wrote that if Zohran Mamdani were to win, it would be “highly unlikely” that the city would receive federal funding beyond a bare minimum.
  
  

• The Battle Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller Near His Virginia Home

  (by Devlin Barrett for The New York Times an hour ago)
  Criminal inquiries pit the Miller family’s safety concerns against the First Amendment rights of an activist in Northern Virginia critical of the administration.
  
  

• ‘The Boat,’ Despised Floating Jail Near Rikers, Heads for the Scrap Heap

  (by Corey Kilgannon for The New York Times an hour ago)
  The jail barge, officially called the Vernon C. Bain Center, was a relic of the crack cocaine era. It was notorious even among Rikers Island’s many troubled lockups.
  
  

• With Acquisition, Kimberly-Clark Bets That Tylenol Can Weather the Storm

  (by Rebecca Robbins and Lauren Hirsch for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  The consumer products giant reached a $40 billion deal to buy Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, despite a barrage of unproven claims from President Trump and others that use of the pain reliever during pregnancy can cause autism.
  
  

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

  (by Samantha Latson for The New York Times 5 hours 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.